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Through the Gates of Fear-No-More |
| January 5, 2006 by Stuart |
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The formal entrance of Fear-No-More Zoo, at the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, has for many years included the graves of three special animals. More recently a fourth grave was added. The four animals buried at the Zoo Entrance are two dogs, a cat and a Bactrian bull camel.
These four beings were, and are, Spiritual intimates of Avatar Adi Da's. While alive each of them served Him in unique ways. As each one passed away Adi Da had them ceremonially buried at the entry gates of Fear-No-More Zoo. In this, and in other ways, Daji Megan, Dama Nitya, Monroe and Jingle Baba, continue to serve Avatar Adi Da, and all of us, in a unique capacity.
"If you go there sensitively", as Adi Da recommends, the entrance to Fear-No-More Zoo imparts a profound message.
To all who formally pass through the gates into Fear-No-More Zoo the message communicated is, "See how life goes, how it ends... See how your own body and mind, and those whom you love, will soon die. Understand life as a passing thing and, like the non-humans, notice that there is no way around this. So rather than seek to escape death (by whatever fantastic means), surrender into life, as the animals and plants do. Freely Contemplate in natural whole-bodily Communion with the Divine and, like the non-humans, enter into the disposition of Fear-No-More. Be made simpler by the vision of life. Stay focused in this, and do so more and more."
The tacit knowledge of their inevitable bodily death, and their awareness of being just another morsel in the food chain, is what moves the non-humans into free and easy Contemplation of the Divine Presence that lives and breathes everything.
The human being's usual response to mortality is to generate an endless search, and flight, from the possibility of death altogether. We tend to choose this, rather than simply relaxing, trusting and surrendering into life itself.
By coming into Fear-No-More Zoo, and making right use of it through observing the animals' Contemplative participation in life, is to begin to understand the right, and truly moral, response to existence in our humble, temporary bodily forms. If you are sensitive to them, you may also feel the animals intentionally, and sympathetically, drawing you to freely Contemplate the Divine as they do... This is the practice that Adi Da, and the animals, recommend when you visit "Fear-No-More" Zoo.
Adi Da Samraj: I don't imagine the non-humans as being lowly or separate, or different in any sense whatsoever. And that's what you should realize when you go to Fear-No-More Zoo. That's how you should use it, to support your sadhana. It's about 'fearing-no-more', about going beyond the knot of separate self, being in the Condition of the Samadhi of Real-God-Communion, and, at the level of form, participating in the Great Unity.
Fear-No-More Zoo exists within the conscious awareness of life and death, and herein it develops its Sacred functions, and purposes, from the point of view of surrender, compassion, acceptance, love and wisdom.
-- Stuart Camps, Fear-No-More Zoo, California |
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