All of Nature...

"All of Nature is Contemplating constantly... it's a culture of Contemplation, including the Earth itself. . . " -- Adi Da Samraj

Humans were once an integral part of ancient Earth's "culture of Contemplation" but now we stand apart in mind, philosophy, and personalized religion, full of projected meanings, increasingly separate from one another and every thing.

In this time we are experiencing a "fist" of unprecedented human fear gripping the world. There is so little Contemplation alive in human cultures anywhere today.

The non-human world is affected and confused by this. Where is the heart of humankind? Where has the human gone?

If this fist of fear and independence is not released it/we will choke and squeeze the life from everything we know.

May we all walk our lives, every step, feeling and releasing the fear, and supporting everyone to do this... again to Contemplate the Source of all Life, as was anciently done, free of man-made intermediaries, books or doctrines... but through breath, life and feeling heart.

This is the World WALK of Fearing-No-More; WALKING together, human, non-human, river, forest, desert, mountain... no difference, no separation... restoring Contemplation to every human heart regardless of race, culture, politics or religion.


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


Stuart

Fear WALKS Away

These monthly WALKS are good, have gotten things going, but they're not themselves the "thing"... (next scheduled is this coming weekend - Sept 6 & 7)

Let's start WALKING all our lives, all our days, all of us, everywhere we go, whatever we do.

Because we don't WALK any more we are chronically afraid. If we remember the walkabout nomad deep in our hearts we can learn again how to release and breathe. If we let ourselves feel it, we will know how scared we really are. This fear makes us do weird things, crazy stuff. We get angry, become insensitive, out of balance, brutal toward ourselves, competitive with others, inwardly collapsed -- and destructive of this fragile world.

Our fear and anger make others feel afraid, too. And all this also makes the non-human world vulnerable, insecure and confused. The non-humans, watching from their perches at forest edge, get confused by the erratic activities of humans. Our dogs and cats are confused because they notice we don't know how to be.

One day of my life mysteriously brought me into Fear-No-More Zoo, a place requiring me to feel my fear, face it, love it. Almost everything in me always wants to run as far away as I can from the fear -- my death, and away from others. I used to run a lot. Now I'm called in every moment, by every thing, to "Fear-No-More". Sometimes it's almost too much.

At first I was like, "whaat?" All I really knew and trusted was my fear. Let go of that? Love instead? Take that wild, irrational, fear and embrace it and never run again? "Whaat??!"

Sometimes the fear pumps so hard every cell bursts and contracts, believing the terror. Only uncomfortable, sometimes painful, love keeps me here, loving life, truth, camel, pig, parrot, horse, you. It's not often perfect love but it keeps me here, breathing the fright, knowing it, letting it free.

These WALKS we've been doing... let's keep them going... and also do them every day... Fear-No-More World WALKS as a never-ending prayer for the advancement of a world free of the crunch of unnecessary human fear.

WALK to the fridge, the bathroom, across the aisle, down the street, over a mountain, to a friend, invoking the spiritually contemplative depth that becomes, and is, "Fearing-No-More", which is love-surrender through and beyond fear... to the deep stillness existing beyond name, religion, species and place...

WALK in your car, on your bike, your horse, in your canoe. WALK in your sleep, your repose, in your garden, while you're shopping, too.

In doing this we might, at last, find the world free of all that fear creates and destroys with every grimaced grunt. We don't have to suffer the fate of unenlightened men and women, burdened forever beneath the dripping mouth of imagined death's fear.

Adi Da Samraj: The human world is the fear world.
The non-human world is not the fear world.

So Fear-No-More...
like the non-humans do !



Stuart


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

And Then So Clear....

It's been about 8 months since the Fear-No-More Awareness Walks commenced.
People have been getting out and about around the world, participating in these low-key Walks on a regular monthly basis. I think on any monthly Walk we might have people walking in about 30 locations.

There is a part of me that could very easily just go walking and stay walking... walk all over the place, be a wanderer, a nomad... not so much for the sake of anything altruistic, any change, but just to walk; because it's so original and primal to wander without concern for property, without so many restrictions, boundaries and limits. This isn't going to happen though, except briefly here and there....

These days life is different than when men and women lived in tipis and yurts and followed the bison or the caribou. Imagine following the seasons throughout your entire life, being that interconnected, and interdependent, with the world. When mother weather shakes, rumbles and moves you get up and move with her... inseparable from her whims. Imagine your outlook on everything, how released and pliant you would need to be...

We are (most of us) now so far from that kind of life. Yet, deep within our cells, our intuitions, still beats the primitive impulse to wander, to walkabout, to be free.

These monthly Walks are a symbolic, motivating, gesture for our deeply buried impulses to be free; to walk free of the daily news, to walk free of the mind that locks us into what we look like, or seem to be, rather than who we are, which is Free -- and free of fear.

We are all walking somewhere so wherever we walk let it be toward a world, a life and an awareness that is free of unnecessary fear -- for everyone.

In honour of our nomadic forebears let's return, to everything we do, the essentials of those ancient walkabout cultures -- the wisdom, the tolerance, the understanding of cold rain and hot sun, sharing through famine and oasis, the patience, the smiles and softness through hard times, the yielding of every moment to Life itself.

And may our continuing monthly Fear-No-More World WALKS be a simple, ongoing, happy, reminder, and prayer, for all of us to release ourselves and one another beyond fear.... to the Tree.

Stuart

Next WALK - August 2 & 3

The next scheduled Fear-No-More World WALK is this weekend (August 2 & 3).

Loving Fear

In my humble experience the chronic underlying fear of death dissolves whenever I love.

When I stop running from, and avoiding my fear, but instead turn to face, accept and allow it, increasingly allow it to be a part of my experience, the fear dissolves, losing its force.

From the time I began serving at Fear-No-More Zoo I have progressively, if not "suddenly", gone through a clarifying process with regard to fear. Today, fifteen years later, I find I am choosing simply to love my fear. In any moment where I let myself feel it, deeply feel it, to the degree I do I am engulfed by a life impulse within which fear is embraced and exceeded.

I don't love fear because I like it or in order to encourage it. I've come to love it because it is present and active in everything I do, in every moment, and it's not going away through any effort or struggle or search. Finally, my only real choice has become loving it. This is not romantic or infatuous love but an essential impulse that overwhelms me. In part, too, I love the fear simply because it is afraid, and pitiful, and needs love in order to be free. Loving the fear is equal to loving myself, loving the entire event of the life within which I somehow exist.

In daily meditation, the WALKS I've been doing, in my service to the animals and at other times, feeling notices fear, dissolves it, and opens to un-thought-of life and mystery.

Animals' constant bodily sense and awareness of being part of the food chain, that death is potential in any moment, swells their contemplative residence within the Mystery of Life, and the Divine, anchoring them in the disposition of "fearing-no-more". They don't philosophize that death might happen to them. They know it will. And when the time arrives they know how to yield and release themselves into the process of mortal death with a grace few humans are practiced enough to equal.

The tacit knowledge of inescapable death inspires animals into fully embracing their situation without argument or complaint and, through their natural meditative depth, feeling is released to move life into the place, and disposition, of "fearing-no-more".

Described by Adi Da Samraj as "Fearing-No-More", this disposition abides not in the absence of fear and threat, but through the fully feeling acceptance of fear and threat, perpetually releasing through love-surrender to life and mystery.

Fear-No-More World WALKS invoke our human embrace and acceptance of mortal fear, loving life beyond all apparent deaths past, present and still to come...

Stuart

A Few More Walks...

From Marcelene Alexander (Portland):
Dear Stuart, Suzanne Hryniw, Dennis Judd and myself put on our Fear-No-More World WALK body banners and did a Fear-No-More World WALK on Sunday at the Thomas McCall Waterfront Park in Portland. There were thousands of people there participating in a music festival over the entire Fourth weekend. One gentleman approached me and asked what it was about, saying he had had an idea a number of years ago to start a walk going half way around the world - but never followed through with it. I explained briefly and gave him a card with the web sites on it. This is our fourth month walking. The first walk we did at Reed College Canyon, the next walk was at Natural State Park right in Portland out on the Terwilliger Curves, the next walk was done by myself in Vancouver, BC and also in Portland where I walked about 27 blocks of my neighborhood, and then this walk at the McCall Park. So , humble as it is, we are walking for Fear-No-More World - hopefully we will get more organized and prepared as we go along.

From Margot S. Janeway (Lopez Island, Washington):
A couple of us on Lopez Island went on a four mile walk along a beach on the western side of the Island. For me it was a lovely walk of contemplation, and consideration of the state of the world and the great need of human beings to become aligned to a Divine process that we may live in harmony with all beings and the earth itself.

From Roslyn Esler (Queensland, Australia):
Hi Stuart, I am walking - and talking with dogs I meet along the way - walking with Monty.
I may not do it monthly - I try to do it daily or a few times a week and for only 30 minutes but it all helps.

From Loretta Sheehan (New Hampshire):
I walked a pine- needled path along a peaceful lake, then took a logging road into deep woods. More or less in that hour…. A dragonfly (the oldest living creature on the earth…they were here
300 million years ago!) landed on my hand and basked in the sun, fearlessly. A damselfly
and her mate let me watch as she laid eggs in a hole in a tree stump…my head was about 5 inches from them! I read that these beautiful insects are "very wary, have big eyes, and are hard to approach", but they, too, were fearless of me. In blessing mode, I saw a giant hornet, robins, chipmunks, butterflies, busy woodpeckers, ants, squirrels, Daddy-long-legs running into the woods, huge flock of starlings, and heard the exquisitely sweet call of the wood thrush. The parallel to your "dead, black cow" was an archery range I came across, where hunters were practicing with crossbows on targets and deer statues!! Ugh!! The pain & death intruded on my walk, too….and I was required to bless all hunters and hunted, praying that FearNoMore would soften the hunters' hearts, and change their desire to hunt for sport. Although mosquitoes tried to bite me all day, they were mostly brushed away, or repelled with spray…none were killed. The grand finale to the FNMZoo Walk, largely centered around small and tiny animals, came that night….as magical lightning bugs appeared in the darkened woods and bog… erratic living, moving lights…sending a message to hopeful mates….here I am! Then, one was on the outside of our blue tent in the dark, and could be seen from inside…..lighting up again and again!…a tiny hello in response to the Fear-No-More Blessing….no doubt.

Walk in Oxford with the "Chief"

Hi Stuart, We walked yesterday, about an hour and a half across Port Meadow in Oxford. Salina and I walked over the Meadow and back to Oxford along the river Thames. I've attached a few photo's! The weather looked very threatening and it got really dark at one point and rained but brightened up later. Saw lots of birds and cows. -- Dan George