A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 08/27/22

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!

Saturday, August 27, 2022

GREAT BIG INSIGHT

As I write I am seeing and so it can be said that the seeing is writing, not me. So far, I see, I have been limited to the use of small, manageable examples out of life that are common to us all in order to attempt to suddenly point out that this example is universal to all issues of humanity and make possible a great insight, a timeless one, which covers all our issues and that great insight has the power to set a human being free!

We all want a someone to love who will love us in return. Right? There are endless tragic stories about attempts to bring that about which have always failed and the stories have a common ending…oh, well, at least we (they) tried and maybe if we keep up this trying we will eventually make a happy world out of this one. So, what if the unhappiness we all share is not actual but is made by us because we insist on holding onto old stories that did not work out?

What if the Power that created the Universe as we know it did not bring about this trouble we do? And it continues only because we are not aware how we do it? We are in need of an insight into this question.

We do not ever look at the big picture. We work on the little pictures of many problems, one at a time, as if we do not know they are all…all…interrelated and because of that interrelatedness which love put here an instantaneous freedom is always there awaiting the insight. Look.

An American Indian living here now bears a grudge. He or she bitterly resents what the white Europeans did to their way of life. Some organize to change things around this issue, to set things right. This is political. Some changes are made but the issue remains just as strong as before. And other tribes, large nations and small, every where on Earth are currently mistreating their neighbors right now as if we have learned nothing from the past. Why?

You may ask, “If I agree to look at the interrelatedness of all my troubles at once what will happen to me?” Or, you may ask, “How can I look at the interrelatedness of all my troubles at once?” I say you are once more refusing to look at the whole scene and will do nearly anything to keep from looking. Look. If you have the insight you will have changed all of mankind in a great way instantly! You will have introduced a blast of real freedom to humanity. Look. Somebody please look. Won’t you?