Nigel Lott

5 days ago | teaandzen.substack.com | Nigel Lott

Today we take a moment to honor the presence of the Mother….in all the ways she shows up in this life. To everyone who’s ever given life, or cared for it… who’s held someone through pain, offered love without needing to be asked, listened deeply, or simply stayed close in the hard moments…..thank you. To the mothers of children. To those holding families or communities together. To the quiet ones whose presence is a kind of medicine.

6 days ago | teaandzen.substack.com | Nigel Lott

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -3:49Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. If I speak from the heart….and in all truth, how else could I speak?….and in the language of metaphor, a black hole…the great void, the collapse of everything we think we know… feels to me like the passage through ego death, deep suffering, or the surrender into the unknown. I have touched that place before…..many times. The silence where meaning dissolves. Where even light seems to vanish.

1 week ago | teaandzen.substack.com | Nigel Lott

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -3:48Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. May you love and be loved, and know eternal peace in your heart forevermore. Nigel Lott teaandzen.orgMeditation Sans Frontieres is a 501(c)(3) non profit charitable organization; contributions are tax-deductible as permitted by law. EIN is 81-3411835Discussion about this episodeTEA AND ZEN is a sacred space creating pathways for lasting healing that touch the very essence of our soul.

1 week ago | teaandzen.substack.com | Nigel Lott

I’m sharing this reflection today from lived experience. I have known what medicine calls adrenergic storms—states of intense sympathetic overdrive that feel like pure terror in the body. It’s been a long time since I’ve had one, but recently, an episode returned. This time, something was different. Instead of resisting, I surrendered. And what I found…..once the intense wave had passed….was not devastation, but Love, the only place it could return to. This piece arose from that experience.

1 week ago | teaandzen.substack.com | Nigel Lott

There’s an illusion we carry in these bodies—one so ancient and persistent, we often forget it’s not real. It is the illusion of separation. And from that illusion, pain arises. A pain so deep and so human that we sometimes try to rid ourselves of it by handing it off to someone else. But the ache of believing ourselves to be separate—from life, from love, from each other, ultimately from whatever you call God—cannot be offloaded in that way.