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Humans and Pigs are Equal -- at Heart |
| Posted January 12, 2007 by Stuart |
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Avatar Adi Da first planted the seed, and the vision, for Fear-No-More Zoo back in 1974.
Fear-No-More Zoo has grown slowly and steadily, gradually becoming more and more a sign and representation of His Spiritual Blessing of non-humans, and humans, everywhere.
The three main retreat Sanctuaries of Adidam each maintain a representation of Fear-No-More Zoo , according to Adi Da's Instructions. Additionally, the Adidam Ashram in Holland maintains a small family of animals, also, as an expression of Fear-No-More in Europe.
Adi Da regards these locations of Fear-No-More Zoo not as separate entities, but as a single process of non-humans around Him, an integral part of this newly developing sacred culture.
In other locations around the world, where devotees and friends of Adi Da gather together in small, intimate-scale, groups (or ashrams), the vision and processes of Fear-No-More Zoo are also gradually beginning to emerge.
Fear-No-More Zoo is not quite like conventional zoos. It is not an "animal zoo". And the culture of Adidam is intended to be more than just a culture of humans only. The true and fullest expression of Adidam includes the cultures of humans and non-humans, together... including animals, plants, rivers, mountains and places. The Vision of Fear-No-More is about the integration of human and non-human cultures into one broad, expansive, tolerant and intelligent culture of all beings.
Adi Da's devotees living in the New Zealand Ashram, on the outskirts of beautiful Auckland, recently sent some photos of "Yama" the pig , and a horse named "Stryder".
Attached are some photos of Yama taken just before Christmas... wearing a bit of decoration! Several years ago Yama lost his close friend, Niyama. Pigs develop powerful and deep bonds in their social lives. After he recovered from the loss, Yama found a new friend in Stryder, and they now roam the hills of the Auckland Ashram together, always in search of new adventure, and always reminding people to feel first, before thinking (or just feel, and don't think at all).
Avatar Adi Da:
Quote : It is not that only human beings are full of 'soul' and everything else should be chopped up and eaten for lunch! If you examine beings other than the human, feel them, are sensitive to them, enter directly into relationship with them, you discover that they are the same - and not just the somewhat bigger ones, like my parrots, but the mosquitoes, too, which you swat out as if they were nothing.
At heart, human beings are manifesting a potential that is in all and that is inherent in conditional existence itself. Whether this potential is exhibited or not, whether it is made human or not, makes no difference whatsoever to the Divine Self-Condition.
All is One. All is the same.
All equally require Divine Compassion, Love, and Blessing, the thread of Communion with the Divine made certain and true and directly experienced. All.
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