THE STORY OF JOHNNY WHOOPER SWAN We go to school trusting our parents. We meet a teacher there who stands up front with a big desk, and a pointer. She or he trains us in an authoritative manner. We attach mentally to a life long need for authority in order to live lives successfully. Right so far? In my case, at the age of 25 I was ready to enter the practice of law where I hoped for success and a happy life finally. Very shortly, very shortly, I became anxious. There was a foreboding. I was made more uncomfortable with each experience. Law work is nothing like what I was told it would be. The system is corrupt. But I still cling to my expectation that career success is necessary to my happiness as a man. Each day my grasp of what the fuck success amounts to after all becomes more clouded, murkier. I hear songs on the airwaves and at concerts which describe my life as the life of a fool. What am I becoming? I want to rip off my business suit to run naked in the street with my hair on fire! But I am too afraid. In strange, weird (weird comes from a word meaning wise), fragmented steps I go about a journey of my own believing myself to be the first man to have failed in such a total way which journey works so as to break up my career, end a marriage, and start an entirely new way of relating with my two children whom I love deeply. Almost magically I meet a woman who is a career counselor who asserts a beautiful message that I am made to be joyful in my work everyday and at all levels. This understanding sets me on a completely new course. It is no longer a world of systems to me but an undivided one of unlimited beauty. It reminds me of a painting. A true masterpiece. I am drawn from within to learn the truth about my identity and nobody else can teach me that. From this point onward I will use thinking capacity for mastering mechanical processes and follow my heart, which includes my whole nature, which includes your whole nature and that of every human being for all the rest. I’ll go by the name Johnny Whooper Swan who does not explain itself to anyone. By my fruits shall I be known. Watch me soar!

Monday, December 2, 2019

MEDITATION


Meditation begins at the ending of a meditator. 

Before that, all it is is another attitude of management. “I will take Nirvana by force of my will using the proper technique and become a happy person.” Ego, the symbolic you, can appear to be a very humble person. It’s a tricky,  imaginary gremlin. But not to be taken lightly. It will become the meditator if you want it to do so.

But the meditator can be ended. By seeing through its veil, not by doing spiritual trickery. Look within into a complete darkness where light is so bright a symbol is blinded and cannot see its way, look with all your attention. In the opinion of the symbolic world that amounts to doing something that has no payoff. In other words, it is being good for nothing. Useless. The world that is not symbolic is a friendly world where action is purposeless. That means the doing is its own reward. That means freedom. That means fulfillment.


As it is, we live in a world of symbols and we are caught there without noticing it has happened to us.  We even call where we live”The Real World”. But we were young when the hypnosis began. We held out but the job became too great for us. So, we gave in. 

Meditation begins at the ending of a meditator. 

Before that, all it is is another attitude of management. “I will take Nirvana by force of my will using the proper technique and become a happy person.” Ego, the symbolic you, can appear to be a very humble person. It’s a tricky,  imaginary gremlin. But not to be taken lightly. It will become the meditator if you want it to do so.

But the meditator can be ended. By seeing through its veil, not by doing spiritual trickery. Look within into a complete darkness where light is so bright a symbol is blinded and cannot see its way, look with all your attention. In the opinion of the symbolic world that amounts to doing something that has no payoff. In other words, it is being good for nothing. Useless. The world that is not symbolic is a friendly world where action is purposeless. That means the doing is its own reward. That means freedom. That means fulfillment.


As it is, we live in a world of symbols and we are caught there without noticing it has happened to us.  We even call where we live”The Real World”. But we were young when the hypnosis began. We held out but the job became too great for us. So, we gave in. 



 A symbolic life is never going to fulfill the human spirit. The True One always does. Once ego ends, a life of meditation begins. It is here we join the real world. It is not necessary to leave the symbolic life only right where you stand withdraw from its ways. One can remain clear and live among those caught in the world of symbols, the political world, enjoying the present moment waiting to be noticed. If noticed, we pass on the truth, using symbols that bind those in the unreal world. Hey, we say, stop taking yourself so seriously!