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TEA AND ZEN
Hosted by Nigel Lott · EN
These are not teachings or beliefs, but transmissions arising from the stillness beneath thought—where presence meets presence, and something ancient and wordless begins to remember itself. A quiet doorway where presence encounters presence, and the heart returns to what it has never truly lost.
Nigel Lott....nigel@teaandzen.org
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Standing With Your Own Heart: A Contemplation
1w ago00:07:39Tap to summarizeTo stand in integrity with yourself, no matter what — no matter what — is perhaps the deepest vow a human being can make. Because in the end, as in the beginning, the real question is not whether the world approved of you, understood you, or agreed with you. The question is: could you stand with your own heart? Could you remain beside your own truth? And if that truth is deeply listened to, beneath all the noise, fear, and performance, it almost always returns to the same place: love. Presence. Kindness. Compassion. Imagine if human beings truly stood in their deepest truth — not in ideology, identity, or fear, but in the quiet essence beneath all conditioning. Perhaps then the world itself would begin to remember what it is. For beneath the divisions and noise, the deepest truth of the human heart has always been love. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
Transcribe →To Stand at The Threshold is To Be Undone and Remade by The Same Hand
1w ago00:03:47Tap to summarizeTo stand at the threshold is to enter the space where the old self can no longer fully remain, yet the new self has not completely emerged. It is a place of surrender, uncertainty, loss, revelation, and transformation. The same mystery that dismantles our certainties, identities, and defenses is also the force that reshapes us more deeply into truth, presence, and wholeness. In this sense, what undoes us and what heals us are not separate movements, but expressions of the same hidden love moving through human life. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
Transcribe →Love Notes XXXII
1w ago00:04:00Tap to summarizeStay close to the breath. Not to the mind that measures and searches, but to the quiet tide beneath all things. The breath arrives before the wound, before the longing, before the story of who you are. And sometimes, if you listen carefully enough, it begins to whisper: nothing is missing. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
Transcribe →The Other Side Of Silence : A Meditation
2w ago00:07:15Tap to summarizeTonight, there is nowhere to go. Nothing to solve. Nothing to become. Only this breath. Only this moment. At the edge of the great quiet, we sit together for a little while — letting the body soften, letting the silence hold us, and remembering that even when we forget love, love has never forgotten us. A gentle meditation from the other side of silence. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
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Who Can I trust
2w ago00:02:19Tap to summarizeWho can you trust? Perhaps the stillness. The breath that returns. The quiet voice within that has never ceased speaking truth. The work is not merely to find who you can trust, but to become someone you trust within yourself. Nigel Lott teaandzen.or Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Registered Charity Tax EIN 81-3411835 May the work offered here serve peace, serve healing, serve remembrance, and serve the quiet dignity of being alive. May this sanctuary belong not to one person alone, but to the field of life itself. And may all who encounter it feel, even for a moment, that nothing is missing and they are not alone. 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
Transcribe →Forty Years Later-The Trauma Beneath The Trauma
3w ago00:07:18Tap to summarizeDecades into recovery, deeper layers of suffering sometimes emerge—not because healing failed, but because the psyche reveals itself only when enough inner ground exists to safely hold what once could not be endured. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Registered Charity Tax EIN 81-3411835 May the work offered here serve peace, serve healing, serve remembrance, and serve the quiet dignity of being alive. May this sanctuary belong not to one person alone, but to the field of life itself. And may all who encounter it feel, even for a moment, that nothing is missing and they are not alone. 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
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When The Nervous System Grows Quiet
3w ago00:10:18Tap to summarizeA gentle meditation for calming the nervous system, softening the body’s vigilance, and returning the heart to equilibrium. Not through force or striving, but through breath, presence, and the quiet remembrance that even in exhaustion, we are still held. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
Transcribe →Sacred Lullaby For Eternal Peace
3w ago00:07:39Tap to summarizeA sacred lullaby for the weary heart. A gentle offering of stillness, remembrance, and the peace that waits beneath all sorrow. For those standing at the threshold of sleep, grief, silence, or surrender— may these words carry you softly back into the arms of the eternal. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
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Love Notes XXXI
4w ago00:03:18Tap to summarizeWhat sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this maze of light it leaves us in? What is this stance we take, To turn away and then turn back? What did we hear? It was the breath we took when we first met. Listen. It is here.” ― Harold Pinter Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
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The Return Beneath Anger
4w ago00:06:20Tap to summarizeAnger is rarely the deepest layer. Beneath it is often fear. Beneath the fear, grief. And beneath the grief, the feeling that we have become separate from love itself. But perhaps we are never truly separate. Healing is not becoming something new. It is the gentle return to what has never left. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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
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