A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 08/15/23

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!

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SIMPLE

Learn that when you are so simple you have no desire to achieve at all, not even to achieve selflessness, then, not only does your being continue to grow in knowledge of self but has far greater intelligence and energy at its disposal. It is very easy for thoughts of achievement to lead to desire and that to self will and then it all becomes complicated again leading away from knowing oneself. Is this too confusing? One is up against a powerful drug: a society of a part of humanity called by name. That is a system. A system depends on listing ideals and demanding obedience in order to achieve them. I want to be a good man. I want to be a good woman. I want to be a success. See? The moment that serpent slithers in freedom is abandoned once again and the whole struggle continues as it has been for millenniums and longer even than that.

Read it again carefully.