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.
"See how life is, how it ends... how the body and mind will one day die. Understand life as a passing and, like the non-humans, notice there is no escape from this. In this awareness be softened. Instead of seeking escape from death surrender into life, as the animals and plants do, realizing natural, whole-bodily, divine communion. And, like the non-humans, embody the disposition of fearing-no-more... and more and more."
The bodily awareness and knowledge of inevitable death, and the sensing of oneself as integral to the food chain, moves animals to feel beyond the limits of the body... to spiritually contemplative surrender into the process that lives and breathes everything.
The usual human response to the knowledge of mortality is to search, strain and hope for a solution to death. In doing this we perpetuate struggle, confrontation and fear, rather than trusting in the "source of being" and surrendering to the mystery of life.
Fear-No-More Zoo exists, and grows, with the conscious awareness of life and death, accepting, embracing and surrendering fear in deepening understanding and love for all life, including the difficult passings of ourselves and those we love.
