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CONTEMPLATION
Music ‘Give My Love Back’ Francis Wells Anger masks the fear that hides the longing. Anger is a pointed moment of grief, as is fear - it tends to mirror a deeper aspect of our underlying sorrow, of grief. If we do not wish to be angry then we find a way to work through our anger and fear states and allow the tears to flow from underneath which then in turn allows us to be at peace again - one with all that is….in time. Easier said than done, indeed it is - our grief can be long stuck in our cellular, nervous system bodies and requires a therapeutic safe container in order for the ego to let go, in order to surrender our tears - it takes time to trust the process. The ego does not give up its position(s) easily - in reality what we talk about as healing is alien to our ego - the heart’s truth and the love on offer there is the ego’s greatest enemy because in order to let go of our suffering it requires a death of an aspect of that ego - to let go into the peace that our heart knows and desires (our true nature) - this is the grief process. For those of you who manifest anger in your life, often hurting yourself and others in the process - contact me and I can help you come up with a structure to feel safe within and let your anger go, techniques and practices and the critical support often needed - of how that might look for you - in order to finally allow your grief and heal. We find that we often hurt the ones we most love because they mirror the deepest aspects of our suffering simultaneously - we push away often in anger and fear because the pain is so great within us - their love touches. Nigel Lott [email protected] PEACE BE IN YOUR HEART. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

EVENING CONTEMPLATION
All heaven and earth reside within you - the entire cosmos resting in the well of your heart of which you are - in your present form - a part - no less however than the whole cosmos - in truth one and the same - all heaven and earth. Remember Love. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

MEDICINE BUDDHA HEALING MEDITATION
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A GUIDED HEALING MEDITATION
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A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH
The trouble is with any thought, word, or deed that is fuelled by anger, fear which in turn hides our grief, is that it will always be seen as progressively destructive, and ultimately fatal, its just a question of timing as to when the end comes nigh. However, if you want something to last forever, into infinity and back, then align your thoughts, words and deeds with Love and its attendant allies of kindness and compassion…..wherein all truth flourishes unabated, beyond all time and space. Fall in Love Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

UNENDING LOVE
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BE LOVED
We are all completely deserving, worthy of love and always have been. There is nothing we need to do in order to be loved - to be one with it all - all suffering aside. Be Love. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

IT IS IN THE NOTHING THAT THE EVERYTHING IS FOUND
There is a wise old man who never spoke……not because he couldn’t….. that he had nothing to say…….it was because he believed that language deceived……that by its very nature it clouded the truth……..it made the world harder to know...…… he believed that the truth….. the truth lived only in silence. He communicated in other ways……..mainly through the food he prepared from his garden…….it conveyed his affection, gratitude, and sometimes his indifference………far better than any words could express. It was said that he could change minds by softening the hardest of hearts….. never having to say a word. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

REACH FOR THE STARS
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THE MORNING POEM
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SCIENCE MEETS SPIRIT
Within the realms of understanding - I believe that the intellect and the knowledge it can acquire in any given moment is designed to only understand so much - it can only go so far along the continuum - that if you really want to understand the ultimate truth of anything you have to go to the heart’s wisdom and grace - with all heart and soul - it is designed that way - very creative don’t you think when you consider where all love is found. Put another way - knowledge has to become wisdom - which is an act of faith as it is beyond the intellect - in order to understand the ultimate truth of any matter - at its heart. The intellect no matter how sharp it has become or the IQ behind it - in understanding the realms of truth it can only go so far. There is a point - a point of surrender in any thought process - no matter how deep our intellectual quest to understand is - when to move forward in any pursuit of understanding we must let go of intellect and enter the realm of the heart - literally rather like entering a black hole….a certain form of alchemy is required - indeed we may call it the transformation of matter into spirit. It’s like I have always had my greatest insights on the way to and from the bathroom in the early morning - coming so soon after sleep - my mind not yet engaged - something I have been working on for a considerable time to understand - the heart of the matter pops up in the moment and all wisdom is mine - hallelujah! In all reality there is a place within all of us that is always connected to it all - we are one with the universe and the universe is one with us. However - there is an element to all of this that says we can’t know something before it’s given us to know. There is a timing to knowing all wisdom - such is the process of any destiny in a given lifetime - creation in motion. So many of us from time to time look back out of our remembrance of suffering and wish that we knew back then what we know now - but it simply wasn’t given us to know back then. In any time-based continuum, all wisdom and grace are ours within - (remember we are always connected) - our awareness of that however is restricted from view until the perfect moment in this great play we call life - another part of the creative process - the Dance of Maya. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

CHOOSE LOVE FIRST
Most everyone looks to connect with another person based on the initial differences found, we do that with everything we come into contact with. From this initial starting point, we then work our way toward any similarities. Considering that our intent is most often to connect with others it is an oddball way to make that connection. Out of our own suffering and sense of separateness connecting in this way is part of the human default position, to go first to the differences and then try to find similarities. May I suggest one similarity between us all, between all life forms - Love. Choose Love as your starting point, and join with others first and foremost on Love. For it is within the realms of Love, that we find no differences, no judgments, and no preferences…….there is only LOVE. It is after all what every heart yearns for, isn’t it? Seriously, why choose anything else? Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

YOU ARE SACRED SPACE
Every inch of you from head to toe is sacred space, treat yourself accordingly please, and whilst you are about it - all other forms of life. May you know the realms of love that exist within your spiritual heart just below the sternum, and go there often when life has you afraid - you will find safety there. Nigel Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Even when we are suffering Love is always present, clouded however by the suffering of the moment we cannot see the truth of the God within - of all heaven on earth. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

There is GRACE in every moment.
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Inner Vision Ep.3
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The Evening Contemplation
Within the circle of every loving heart and tender soul, there is an infinite body of light. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
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MEDITATION ON RADIATING LOVE
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The Evening Contemplation
We live our lives looking to find peace and bliss again in God, thinking mistakenly that in becoming human we had separated from God or that God had separated from us, seemingly cast out from Home. In this one statement lies all the suffering in the world. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

LIFE MATTERS PT 2
This is a companion piece to the writing immediately preceding this offering. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

UPDATE
I am taking a few days for introspection which always leads to a greater understanding of my part in things and how I may serve. Will be back in a couple of days when I come back up for air. Remember Love, Nigel Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
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The Evening Contemplation
I heard someone say that knowledge is important. However, without the wisdom found only in the heart to guide that knowledge, to bring it home so to speak..... you will not find the truth of anything. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
The environmental crisis is inseparable from the spiritual crisis that exists within the soul of most modern men and women and, is in fact an objectivization of this primarily inward crisis. Seyyad Hossein Nasr Time is running out on our ability to manage successfully our impact on this our home, Mother Earth, its environment, bio-diversity, resource and life-support systems on which life as we know it depends. The response and action that is now required of us must be firmly rooted in our deepest moral and spiritual principles. Maurice Strong Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
You should go home to your hermitage; it is inside you. Close the doors, light the fire, and make it cozy again. That is what I call 'taking refuge in the island of Self.' If you don't go home to yourself, you continue to lose yourself. You destroy yourself and you destroy people around you, even if you have goodwill and want to do something to help. That is why the practice of going home to the island of Self is so important. No one can take your true home away. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Insights and Parables
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Insights and Parables
It is said that we cannot know what Nature, The Universe, what God's will is for us, we can only pray for knowledge of that will and the wisdom to carry that out. But surely whatever that will is, at its core, it comes with kindness, compassion, love, and with grace. Is this not then the truth of any matter? Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
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The Morning Poem
“A Day of SilenceCan be a pilgrimage in itself.A Day of SilenceCan help you listenTo the Soul playIt’s a marvelous lute and drum.Is not most talkingA crazed defense of a crumbling fort?I thought we came hereTo surrender in Silence,To yield to Light and Happiness,To Dance within,In celebration of Love's Victory” Hafiz. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

A PORTRAIT OF PEACE
“Asato ma sadgamaya, Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya, Mrityorma amritam gamaya” Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Morning Poem Part 2
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The Morning Poem
Peace be in your heart Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Nature Of Addiction
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The Morning Poem
Peace Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success—none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here." Ram Dass Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Easter Sunday Evening Poem
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Easter Sunday
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The Morning Poem
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The Evening Contemplation
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The Evening Contemplation
The patterns, dynamics, and laws that govern us in our lives, that interweave between our thinking mind and the heart’s wisdom… apply as much collectively as they do individually. When we talk about individual consciousness it is part of a whole that is embedded within humanity….of which, we are but a tiny part. To accept and understand that each of us has a profound effect on the energy of our world and in the universe as a whole, in its polarity between light and dark and, how much of each becomes manifest in any given moment. We are responsible for how much light is in our world, or how much darkness is. It is the purview of each of us then to find the truth within the realms of our own heart and to discover the one love that binds us together there, yet in doing so sets us all free and, to share with each other our stories of the light found there, beyond the darkness. To help each other through our own work on ourselves, on our alignment with the will of the universe, this great mystery shrouded always in love, and to share this outward with humility and grace to all sentient beings everywhere. Nigel Lott. teaandzen.org Have you held a hand today…. got a hug, in giving and sharing the energy of love? if not will you do so now for all our sakes? Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Morning Poem
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The Evening Contemplation
Some quick thoughts this evening. No - is a complete sentence….don’t repeat it as you will dilute the power of the original No, this is true for all communication. Be always in integrity with your own hearts’ truth not of another - stand tall, and speak light to the darkness. You do not have to explain yourself. Let loving kindness and compassion be your guide in all things. Cherish all life forms as if they were all your own precious children. And bake a cake once per week, save me a slice!…… Love On and On and On. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Morning Poem
Mount Shasta Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

SIMPLE MEDITATION
Bring your focus to the bridge of your nose and feel the air physically pass in and out over the skins surface. As you breathe in and out through the nose keep focused on the air passing over the bridge. The sensation of that quality of air passing over the tip, gently in and out. Your mind will wander here and there, thats ok. At the beginning of this practice probably quite a bit of wandering mind will take place, do not be deterred. When you notice this just bring your attention back gently but with great intent to the tip of your nose and, focus again on the sensation as the air passes over the bridge of your nose. Keep repeating this for ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening. The difference in you after a couple of weeks will be profound as to the sense of peace and equanimity experienced. A quiet mind and a silent voice gives rise to an ever present open heart and the love, wisdom and truth found there. All peace will be yours, there is nothing that you will not come to know, it is all within you…..welcome home. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Morning Poem
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The Evening Contemplation
There is an underpinning, a dynamic at play on planet earth, like never before and that is people reacting to the belief that there isn’t enough love for them. I don’t mean a romantic kind of love I mean the very creative force of the universe from whence we sprung and from within we are absolutely safe. We think of ourselves as so far away from that love and yet it is right here dwelling as it does within infinity itself. All sorrows and fears that lie at the root of conflict have this belief, that there isn’t enough love for me, in that whatever God means for us is at the other end of the universe and not even this one. Not true, it’s here, it's on every breath we take, and it is within the air that we breathe, permeating as it does every nook and cranny of existence, no matter what we think is happening to the contrary. Difficult to know at times for sure, an act of faith to come to know these truths, indeed it is, that a love beyond measure lays at the heart of you and every life form regardless of what form that love takes. And just to throw in an extra pearl here and say it is still present after breath you take no more, as it was before breath you took. There is always enough, you are eternally safe in love’s arms. ! Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Evening Contemplation
What! on earth is the point of wielding power, if not in the service of love, kindness, and compassion? to unite hearts rather than in an attempt to conquer minds? Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

The Morning Poem
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The Evening Contemplation
The saying goes…..all is realized in the fullness of time and that time waits for no man……given that…..all that is left then is the present moment……it was ever thus and will forever be. Nigel Lott. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE