A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 10/27/21

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!

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

LOVE IN ACTION

What if you were told that you are the pathway to truth? A Great Master is quoted saying “I am the truth”. Suppose he meant to give you that message to apply it for yourself? Suppose all the consciousness of humankind from its beginning is in you now. That means all that has ever been known by any human ever is your knowledge now. That means you require no teacher. It would be silly for you to go to another, personally or in a book, to be taught about you. Study, rather, yourself. Socrates said that. That is a big help if it be so. This writing cannot teach you that about yourself can it? That would be silly. But, it would be a big help if you learned it is so, would it not? That is all one can do for another and it is a good example of love in action.

This means there is nothing to experience. This is so important. If you insist on an experience you will only be the victim of another illusion projected by the confused mind that wants experiences. That must create conflict in you between the reality of who you actually are and the old belief you need teachers. You need the Great Energy of clarity. Can anyone outside you give you that? That is silly. You have it!

Clarity is something that if you do not have it nothing else matters. If you do have it, nothing else matters. You cannot afford to be without it. That is its worth.

Some think if I have enough money I am secure. Others think if I am very famous I am secure. Others think if I am feared enough I am secure. Others think if I am connected to enough people who have fame and wealth and power I am secure. You happen to know none of these have security at all. If you know it and are living as if you do not can you really say you are living?