Walking July 5th Weekend

The next Fear-No-More World WALK weekend is July 5 & 6.

Where will you be walking for a world free of fear?

I'll be walking alone here this time, but I hope others will walk in other areas. I'm planning a 6 hour walk in the Snow Mountain Wilderness at the northern end of Lake County, a beautiful and remote area.

I humbly dedicate my walk up Snow Mountain to the mountain gorillas in the war-torn Virungas, to horses and humans who are treated as merchandise and discarded when no longer useful and to all the bugs and insects we think nothing of, but who are full of wonder, mystery and intelligence far exceeding our own.

Fear-No-More,
Stuart

Land Owners Lost

Owning land was a foreign concept to the Australian Aboriginals and many other native cultures around the world. Those people saw, and in some cases still see, themselves as caretakers of a land more primary than themselves. To them it was inconceivable for a human being to own land, or to own anything, really.

Practically and spiritually these more original, nomadic, cultures were far freer than we who became land-trapped through fear and separation.

With ownership came a more serious aggression, as well as deepening segregation, intolerance and an insensitivity to the cycles and equalities of life. Ownership became viewed not as an aberration anymore but a form of status, a sign of superiority over life.

This new culture of "owners" became destroyers, of which the world today bares ample witness.

In reality, land ownership, or ownership of anything, is a mirage within our minds. The economy of ownership is a false one, for nothing can ever be owned by a human, or by any other being, and especially not the earth. Today when one single, tiny, person can presume on his own to possess 30,000 square miles of land the fantasy, one could say, has become insane.

If we are really up to the responsibility of ownership we'd hold the land as a sacred privilege rather than our right. What makes us live the way we do?

The buying and selling of land is tantamount to the trade in human slaves. That this is hard for us to feel doesn't make it not so. Real estate agents have become the approved slave traders. The Earth is stolen, bought, sold and abused like chattel. The buyers, sellers and realtors are often treated like chattel as well.

We are fully a society of "owners", and "the owned", and this won't change in a hurry. But we can become owners who are sensitive and respectful to the land, as well as to one another.

The lands we live on are sacred. So the buying and selling of land should be a sacred process.

Hidden within the title, "Real Estate Agent", there is a reference to the higher purposes of this position within society.

We need our good real estate agents to begin serving the inherently "Real E(nlightened)state" in themselves, in the traded lands, and in the buyers and sellers they work with, and for.

We should expect these real estate agents to be priests and protectors of the lands they serve, the very lands who serve them. Regardless of differing religions, or ideologies, we should all be as priests and servants of the "real state", and of the earth who is our home and who gives us life. She knows how to bring us together as a culture and equalize our differences, if we allow her...


Stuart

Dreamtime Stones

During the 1940's at an Australian Aboriginal outback reservation arrived a small group of geologists. The geologists had spent several weeks further out in the arid desert collecting rock and mineral samples. Their expedition completed, they now spent several days cataloging their findings at the reservation. The collected rocks were laid out in rows according to type, size, and quality, and the scientists began identifying and classifying them.

After a time, a group of elderly Aboriginal men came over. Upon viewing the rocks they quickly became highly disturbed and animated, crying, and wailing. Their mournful displays drew the geologists' attention who enquired about the elders' distress. The unwitting intruders were astounded by what they heard.

The Aboriginal men recognized the stones and rocks before them as individuals they personally knew. They had names for some of them. They also accurately identified the precise locations from where individual rocks had been taken. Many of these rocks were associated with precious stories and tribal myths. These rocks were keepers and guardians of the balance of life in that region, and of the peoples' sacred culture.

Viewing the stolen rocks reconnected them to their ancient lands, re-awakening their concerns for the safety of those places and for the doubtful continuation of their spiritual culture. The sacred lands where these people had lived peacefully for millennia were no longer the same. First disturbed when these tribal caretakers were forcibly removed the land was now further thrown out of balance with the theft of the rocks. The elders were inconsolable for days. Their world was destroyed.

-- Stuart Camps



Adi Da Samraj: From the magical, shamanistic point of view everything is alive. The cosmos is a living process. From the magical point of view, so-called inanimate objects are also conceived as being alive and participating in a living, magical cosmos. And this is certainly true. The more psychically awake you become, the more you are aware of the psycho-physical nature of what you call the objective world. Once you see that the world is psycho-physical in nature, you begin to appreciate the living condition of everything that arises in the field of experience -- not living, perhaps, in the sense that a chair can get up and walk out of the room, but living in a magical sense. Your association with so-called inanimate objects can go through many changes. Association with an inanimate place, even just a room, can change. There are feelings associated with it, a sense of energies, emotions, moods, influences, all kinds of factors to which you become sensitive relative to so-called inanimate things, just as you can be sensitive relative to moving and living things. . .

(c) 2008 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, . All rights reserved.

The Grass as Person

Adi Da Samraj: How would you treat the grass as a person?... How do you think the trees feel about not being regarded as persons by all of you?... When I walk about outdoors I naturally acknowledge the trees and plants I encounter as persons...

(c) 2008 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, . All rights reserved. Perpetual copyright claimed.

July 5 & 6 Walk

Next "official" Fear-No-More World WALK >> first weekend in July.
Here in Lake County we're still deciding on the walk location... either a coastal redwood & beach walk, or a rock-crunching, sweat-pumping hike around the trails on nearby Bogg's Mountain.
We hope every one of you will get up and get walking with us that weekend as a "walking prayer" for a world less afraid... us of one another and the non-humans of us !

I'll post a further reminder closer to the date.

Stuart

His Holiness the Karmapa

His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa (December 2007) : Throughout my life I have always felt that the outer natural elements and my own mind are close. I have a special connection with the four elements. I am not being superstitious and saying I can talk to the elements, but sometimes it feels that way.

Ever since the human race first appeared on this earth, we have used this earth heavily. It is said that ninety-nine percent of the resources and so on in this world come from the natural environment. We are using the earth until she is used up. The earth has given us immeasurable benefit, but what have we done for the earth in return? We always ask for something from the earth, but never give her anything back.

We never have loving or protective thoughts for the earth. Whenever trees or anything else emerge from the ground, we cut them down. If there is a bit of level earth, we fight over it. To this day we perpetuate a continuous cycle of war and conflict over it. In fact, we have not done much of anything for the earth.

Now the time has come when the earth is scowling at us; the time has come when the earth is giving up on us.The earth is about to treat us badly and give up on us. If she gives up on us, where can we live? There is talk of going to other planets that could support life, but only a few rich people could go. What would happen to all of us sentient beings who could not go?

What should we do now that the situation has become so critical? The sentient beings living on the earth and the elements of the natural world need to join their hands together-the earth must not give up on sentient beings, and sentient beings must not give up on the earth. Each needs to grasp the other's hand.

(thanks to K.M. for forwarding this excerpt)

Crazy Vic, the Fearless

Madman, Crazy Vic, walks the world advancing the disposition of "Fearing-No-More". Crazy Vic is also a master of pichenotte, a tree-climber, wildgrass-eater, landscaper, long-time celibate, jokester, camel lover and random movie watcher... and he loves to walk. He also meditates a lot and helps those less well-off than he... including the rich and famous !

In a recent rare interview Crazy Vic mumbled, "It's a good idea, no matter what, to Fear-No-More... (chuckles)..."

Afraid?

"Letting Go Mountain"

Typically, people have a variety of ideas about what the Vision of Fear-No-More is about; like not feeling fear, avoiding fear, over-riding fear somehow, perhaps by challenging or confronting it.

But the "Fearing-No-More" process isn't about avoiding or escaping fear. It isn't about doing exaggerated things in order to challenge and overcome fear.

"Fearing-No-More", as described by Adi Da Samraj, involves a process of accepting and feeling your fear, embracing and allowing the fear, not being afraid of the fear, acknowledging the inevitability of our mortal situation -- that no matter what we do we are going to die -- and instead of struggling and seeking to prevail over what is simply inevitable surrender your entire being into life itself, trusting in the Source of Being, surrendering "without even the slightest hint of the (manmade) Divine", because eventually you have no choice anyway...

Enter through the gates of Fear-No-More Zoo, at the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, and you will pass among the burial shrines of five animals; two dogs, a cat, a Bactrian camel and a llama.

The entrance to Fear-No-More Zoo imparts a profound message to those who visit there sensitively. Read a little more....

Stuart

Walking on Saturday, with Crazy Vic

Last weekend, with Stuart and Coal, we did a moderately steep walk up the slopes of Mt. Saint Helena (California), reaching the summit rocks in about 3 hours. (We had originally planned to walk to Middletown from Seigler Springs, but changed gears at the last minute.)

It was a beautiful sunny day, and other folks were out enjoying the hike. As we ascended, starting at about 6am, the fog banks below us were like expansive oceans of clouds, with hills and peaks poking through the billows in a surreal landscape.
I invoked the purposes and intentions of these Fear-No-More World WALKS throughout the hike.

I felt my heart open as I offered my prayers of blessing for all beings, again and again.

I prayed for my own sensitivity to non-humans to deepen. I prayed for my understanding of the inter-connectedness of all of life to grow. I prayed that my practice of ego-transcendence become stronger and stronger.

I prayed that all humans come to a deeper understanding of their relationship to all beings, particularly animals. I find it very sad that in this time and place, animals are often considered to be without consciousness, just 'instinctual' beings, and are regularly mistreated, maligned and slaughtered on such a massive scale.

I feel, as we all do, that it is time for a new respect and a deeper understanding to develop.

Stuart and I alternatively talked, joked, told leelas, and just walked in silence.

We hope more of you can join us in the future.

These walks are very healing for me and I'm sure you will enjoy them if you come along.

Victor