A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 11/11/22

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!

Friday, November 11, 2022

A Life Based Entirely On The Future Is

Misery for All

Maybe you and I wish to understand what has happened to us already and why it has happened before we launch yet another program to bring a future we desire to ourselves and our friends and relations? I am speaking about the way families live and have lived here on this planet for untold thousands of years. I am speaking not of one nation but of all humanity. Humans are suffering now as you read this all over the world. We are all in the same boat.

What causes this? Desire? I want something I do not have or I want to keep something I think I must have and may lose? Why think that way at all?

A good friend once said to me seated together in a relaxed feeling of well-being at a delightful party, “I want both”. She meant that she wanted inwardly to be a contented, free person who enjoys good, healthy relationships with other contented people who love one another and she wanted to be very rich outwardly. Since that night we have seen very little of each other and my friend has accumulated great wealth which includes a larger and larger house and a swimming pool and numerous vehicles and servants and so on and on. She has also become an active member of an organized religion and has taken the matter so far she is one of its official decorated leaders who conducts rituals and voices its doctrines. Has my friend created a Utopia? I can say with confidence “No” for it is impossible to create a Utopia based upon a desire for some outcome in the future and that has been demonstrated over and over in all parts of the earth by all societies put together by humans since the beginning of time. All nations that have come about have tried it and all are trying it today and nothing about us has changed. And this even includes every attempt by only two people to live together in peace in what is practiced universally as a marriage.

All humans today must look once and for all and see clearly what we speak of when we speak of the future. The answer is simple and anyone can see it but only if one is able to stop denying the fact. The fact is the future does not exist, never has existed, and never will exist inwardly where we all experience our lives. By relying on it for our happiness psychologically we are fools for to choose not to open our presents today which exists as a fact in favor of what is mere abstract thought is to assure that one will never be happy inwardly today. What fools! Today is perpetual. Tomorrow is never. Happiness for a human has been forsaken to ashes. If a forest of trees were to be able to live thinking of ways to become something other than what it is there would remain not a tree. Few will disagree with the saying “we have lost our humanity”.

One should recognize that all who live to become something else tomorrow or next year are driven to compete against others by selfish thoughts which build into greed and violence and hatred and all manner of suffering. Each bunch seeks to better itself at the expense of some other group. Conflict, not peace abides. It is a fact.

To top it off, one says we must fight this next war. It will end all wars. After all the deaths and suffering we will be happy. So, we kill each other. There is a celebration only of the cessation of the horror and madness and suffering the war has caused then we prepare for the next war. This brand of insanity is spread through and perceived in every sector of every society. It must end if we are to be true humans.

Immigrants have always thought when we go to another country we will find plenty and live well. This cannot be. The same people with the same policy of giving up today for tomorrow cannot help but to recreate another miserable, unlivable society in place after place. All societies are headed in the same direction using up their water supply, using up the air clean enough to breathe, using up their food supply creating more disease.

The obvious way to a happy future is to live fully as human beings today. The first step is to be clear what a human being is actually then live committed to that fact each moment. Watch like a hawk for the appearance of the slightest suggestion to return to base the practice of living on some future goal. Remain thereby true disciples! That and only that is real human discipline.

Nobody wanted a light bulb! Far more fulfilling is it for a human to sit ‘neath the glow of the Moon and the twinkling of stars holding the hand of another real human than to plan a trip up there. In truth, the Moon may come to you if you really love Her. And , if so, the trip could be both effortless and beyond time and distance once you know yourself.

I know a fella who when he first saw Orion in the night sky was struck by a feeling of pure love beyond any he had known before and although many years have passed the feeling remains as great every time he looks on the constellation. No time. No distance. Love omnipresent. At heart, so is the human being.