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Why The Zoo Fence? One night in 1974, in a fishing camp on the windward side of Moloka'i in the Hawaiian Islands, I had a dream about publishing a journal called One day in Eden, Adam sees Eve for the first
time. Every happening, great and small,
Please and Thank You
The function, the purpose, the reason of bodily life is to learn how to love ourselves, how to love one another, how to love creation — the fact of it, the content of it, the source of it, responsibly, generously, sensibly, healthfully, thoroughly, delightfully. spiritually. And so, yes, I am convinced we reincarnate repeatedly, as often and as long as it takes, until we pay attention, until we take life seriously, until we take love seriously, until we learn how. In a word, we're in class.
And here's the curriculum … Identify yourself not with the body
By Nancy, rediscovered in a long since forgotten folder:The Zoo Fence.
The name probably originated from the practice of the Honolulu Zoo to allow artists to display their artwork on the zoo fence along Monsarrat Avenue in Waikiki. More than two decades later, when The Laughing Cat issued a newsletter which evolved into this website, the choice of a name seemed already to have been made.
Waikiki zoo fence
“I am Adam,” he says to her.
“Yes, I know,” Eve replies, “so am
I.”
In The Beginning
Chapter 4
· Search ·
The Zoo Fence
· the Words I use ·
what I mean
· Books ·
ours and others
Go Directly To …
· THE SIMPLE WAY ·
and
My spiritual practice …
and
Where I came from …
and
As I see NOW now …
and
What's next …
and
· THE I THOUGHT ·
· GOD: A NAME, A NOUN, A VERB ·
· PORTRAIT OF A LANDSCAPE ·
· A SEMBLANCE OF LIFE ·
· The Quiet Room ·
· A few prayers ·
· What is Prayer ·
· Let us Pray ·
· A Simple Meditation Practice ·
· A Seeker’s Primer ·
· Asking Prayer ·
· There is A Way ·
·If you meet the Buddha ·
the Teacher’s role
· God saith ·
I was a hidden treasure.
I would fain be known.
So I created man.
The Sayings of Muhammad
· Hear, O Israel ·
the LORD our God, the LORD is One
Shema — Deuteronomy 6:4
I will act according to Your Word.
The Bhagavad Gita
· You do not have to be talking about God ·
to be talking about God.
· Let God be God ·
· GOD ·
· God Is … ·
· The names Jesus & Issa ·
by any other name
· Jesus, Judas, & Mary Magdalene ·
the missing verses
· Mary Magdalene ·
herself
· Religion & Spiritual Tradition ·
All religions including atheism lead to God.
There being nowhere else.
The Lord is my Shepherd,
I shall not whine.©
Psalm 23 & TZF
Seek
and you will be Found.
Matthew 7:7 & TZF
The body is not what I am.
The body is where I am.
TZF
is a parable whereby God speaks to us,
and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Life's most important lesson is gratitude.
That's right, gratitude.
Consider this: If God is Infinite, then God is all of us,
so when we fail to express gratitude to one another,
God notices because one another includes Him too.
That can't be good.
One day,
a fellow comes upon another
enmeshed
in a life-and-death struggle
with God.
“Why in the
world,” the first asks, “would you
take on such a formidable opponent?
How can you possibly hope to win?”
“You don’t
understand,”
gasps the other, between strangleholds,
“I hope to lose.”
here
Our lives are a dream, a delusion, an illusion.
Teachers are an alarm clock.
Love and compassion are like seeds.
When you plant them in your heart, they grow and spread,
touching the lives of everyone around you.
Neem Karoli Baba
You believe yourself born to die.
Undeceive yourself and be free.
You are not a person.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
· Sacraments & Communion ·
childhood faith & adult vision
· Stories & A Playlet ·
· Books ·
· Letters ·
to & from
· Truth & Reality ·
· Throw Away The Peel ·
meeting a guru
· Life is But A Dream ·
Sh-Boom
· Ahimsa & Vegetarianism ·
·The Source of Rage ·
lower back pain … plus
· CONSIDER THESE ·
wondering thoughts
· LIFE ·
· THE FALL ·
· HELL ·
· FEAR ·
· PRAYER ·
· MEDITATION ·
· DEATH ·
· ATHEISM ·
· S-E-X ·
· SELF-REALIZATION ·
are you and I a person?
· Ampers&nd ·
words of wondrous others
· YES, YOU CAN! ·
God is the Teacher
· A Voice in War ·
· Chicago Fools ·
‘This is she’
· It’s Not Your Karma ·
Asked in the final weeks of his life
if he had made peace with God,
Henry David Thoreau replied,I did not know that we had quarreled.
New York Times
I Am I ·
· Here's A Thought ·
Who am I to judge?
Pope Francis
· Sufism: Love as Practice ·
· Is thought carbon-based? ·
If I Am Infinite, who are you?
· The Crucifixion ·
why didn’t he run
· The Last Supper ·
what you are going to do, do quickly
John 13:34 and others.
Notice it’s not suggest, recommend, urge, it’s command.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Leviticus 19:18
Spread peace, and love each other.
Hadith on Faith
Kindness, Compassion, Delight in others' joy.
Metta Koruna Mudita
Be kinder than necessary.
James Matthew Barrie
creator of Peter Pan
which is finite.
Identify instead with the soul
which is infinite & eternal,
and inhabits a body
only for a while.
suggested by a Ram Dass video
All I am is a file of concepts composed of memories stored, events remembered, anticipated, and emotions attached, originally probably arbitrarily, but now, when repeated, based in the file called memory
Fear is generated by those concepts (not an individual, though those concepts do make up that individuality), when they are threatened by change of any kind, loss, deletion, or newness.
This body is solely a gross material representation of the instrument that records all of this. The brain is its memory bank, literally a material representation of all the experiences of that instrument.
So who am ‘I’? Of course, all I can be is the energy, the consciousness, the awareness, the generating source of all of this manifestation. Unlimited in source, but limited within the instrument.