Fear-No-More: Robert the Cat

About this mala:

Part of a collection honoring the natural contemplation of animals, this mala is made with brown striped wood beads, bright blue spacer beads and a regal silver feline pendant in honor of Robert the Cat.

Read about Robert the Cat:

Adi Da Samraj’s first spiritual teacher was a Maine Coon cat he named Robert. They lived together on the Pacific Coast in Tunitas, California, in the mid 1960s.

Adi Da said of Robert:

“Robert himself was nothing less to me than my best friend and mentor. He was more, not less, than human to me. All of his ways seemed to me an epitome of the genius of life . . . and I loved him as deeply as the universe itself. I recognized that Robert had been my Teacher in the wilderness. He had filled my eye and owned a thread of attention in my heart. I knew him and he knew me. Nothing could replace that state of life or console its absence. I treated him in death like a saint. I had him cremated, and I kept his ashes.”

Animals are naturally contemplative and if we relate to them correctly we can learn to be more contemplative ourselves.

This mala is inspired by Fear No More Zoo, where humanity is sensitive to and respectful of the sacred nature of all life. Non-human residents at these sanctuaries include a herd of Bactrian camels, horses, llamas, and more. These non-humans live in a conscious, sacred circumstance where they are free to live their lives in safety and love.

Adi Da Samraj speaks about Fear-No-More Zoo: Living things are there being without fear, human beings without fear, all beings without fear. Fear-No-More is a Sacred Place. It awakens compassion for all living beings.

Adi Da Samraj speaks about non-humans:The non-humans are, by their very nature, innately extended in the Field of Transcendental Contemplation. Fundamentally, as an innate characteristic, they Stand Prior to mind. In that sense, the non-humans are (to some degree) already Free.