A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 04/14/23

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, April 14, 2023

Ideals are not true. That is the chief characteristic you need to know about them…ideals, that is. Marriage as an ideal is not true. What is? Well, there is not a name for it. Just say the truth is true and you will get by fine. Why is that? Well, the place where you and I contact truth is wordless. No dictionary book is of any use there. It is beyond thinking. It is real intelligence. It may surprise you to be told your intelligence is found in a completely still, quiet mind. There you are totally aware. Nothing escapes you. How could it? How many times must a man look up before he sees the sky? “Blowin' In The Wind”, Dylan.

At some point we tipped over into a way of thinking that took us by storm is the best way to put it. Thinking told us it was our best ally in a dangerous world and that has proven to be absolutely a lie.The more we reason our way to light the darker it gets. Those who know true love and compassion found the stillness within and immediately understood undebatable truth and took pure action as if for the first time. Ask an astronaut who has seen the beautiful Earth while standing on the Moon. You are that wise all the time if only we know.