Fear-No-More Zoo

Fear-No-More Zoo is one of the seeds of a great Vision of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, a Vision of all beings living in right Spiritual relationship with one another, in cooperation, tolerance, and peace, informed by mutual contemplation of the Very Divine Being.

Adi Da once said:

Fear-No-More Zoo is a sign that My Work extends beyond human beings. It provides Me with a point of contact with non–human beings. The more I get to do what I intend there, the more you will observe it. [January 5, 1996]

Adi Da Samraj’s “Vision of Fear-No-More” is not any kind of utopian ideal, or goal. It is, rather, a way of describing the living necessity for embracing everything—everything difficult, dying and changing (everything natural), and everything positive, happy, alive and free—from the disposition of increasingly profound contemplation and communion with the Divine, such that natural sanity, peace and Spiritual life would exist and thrive as the order of life on the earth.

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: You want never to be snuffed out, never thrown into unconsciousness, darkness, and yet somehow you are aware of your isolation and disturbance. You don’t want that. So why should you play life unconsciously, such that it produces that very thing? You have to use your discrimination, your listening to Me, to profoundly consider these matters and really choose a reorientation of life. You have to become thoroughly intelligent about it and intelligent with it.

That's why we have here on the Ashram, Fear-No-More Zoo. Come in and get involved.

Living things are there being without fear, human beings without fear, all beings without fear.

There’s a kind of congeniality in the Zoo—almost any zoo really, at least some level of it, especially as we do it here—that is immediately capturing.

So Fear-No-More Zoo is one of the Sacred Places in this Ashram. You should visit the Zoo as a Sacred Place. Feel what its particular components are. The more I get to do what I intend there, the more you will observe it. But even as it is, as simple as it is, it immediately awakens a certain congenial disposition in you, if you go down there sensitively of course, and free to do so.

It’s another place of Puja, a kind of walking, petting Puja. [Laughter.]

It awakens compassion for all living beings, just being down there.

And a feeling of non-difference, of Unity. I spend a lot of time around non-humans, you know. To Me they’re the same as human beings, in the Ultimate sense the same.

I don’t imagine them being lowly or separate, or different in any sense whatsoever. And that’s what you should realize when you go there. That’s how you should use it, to support your sadhana. The entire Ashram is a kind of Yajna. All the places are Sacred, have a special meaning, purpose, and significance. And the Zoo is one of them. 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. [January 5, 1996]

Visit the Fear-No-More Zoo Website:  (http://www.FearNoMoreZoo.org)