May this day arrive gently for you. Not as noise or obligation, but as a quiet remembering. May you feel how close love truly is— not distant, not earned, not conditional— but already present, breathing you, holding you, even in places you thought were forgotten. If this season stirs joy,
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A reflection on listening, survival, and remembering
love and presence
Listen to the Silence
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My hope is to walk in the world through a lived covenant
love and presence
If people only knew how precious they are—how close we already are, how much is being entrusted to us in every breath—harm would become inconceivable, not forbidden, but impossible to imagine.
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Guided Healing Visualization
May you be gentle with the places in you that ache. May you recognize that what rises in parenting is not failure, but memory seeking care. May you offer to yourself the patience you are learning to offer your child. May the love you extend outward also find its way
We exist to restore dignity, tenderness, and coherence through presence-centered care.
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We are living in a sacred moment, a time when the call to awaken to our deepest essence and reconnect with the divine within is more powerful than ever.
At the heart of Tea and Zen are simple but profound tenets — touchstones of presence that guide every offering, every encounter, every act of care. Presence before action — to meet life as it is, with stillness and attention. Dignity and tenderness — to honor each person, no matter their story, with
From the Other Side of Silence
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Your child chose you.
Love is on every breath you take.
In a world overflowing with advice, techniques, and theories, the role of a parent can feel endlessly complicated. Yet beneath the noise, something very simple and very old remains true. The primary role of a parent is not to shape a child into an ideal version of success, happiness, or
Our joint meditation this week. The Threefold Offering meets in silence at: Monday — 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time Wednesday — 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time Saturday — 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time For 15–20 minutes, we sit together in the great quiet of the heart and allow the
All that we could ever hope to be for another life form, for another being, is to be a companion of presence. The work is simple: to be with all sentient beings, with all life, in love. To sit in silence with them, to breathe with them, and to hold
It is in Love that we remember it all.
Love and Light
There is a way of meeting another that has nothing to do with words, awareness, or even wakefulness. It happens beneath all of that — in the quiet field where soul recognizes soul. When I sit with someone who is dying, I do not feel that I am with them so
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Choose Love.
It is my understanding — felt more than believed — that every human life begins with a wound so universal, so quietly formative, that most of us spend our entire lives circling around it without ever naming it. It happens in the very process of taking human birth. In becoming some body,