“Not Minding What Happens...”

“J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more than fifty years attempting to convey... that which is beyond words, beyond content. At one of his talks in the later part of his life, he surprised his audience by saying, "Do you want to know my secret?" 

Everyone became very alert. Many people in the audience had been coming to listen to him for twenty or thirty years and still failed to grasp the essence of his teaching. Finally, after all these years, the master would give them the key to kunderstanding. 
"This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens."

He did not elaborate, and so I suspect most of his audience were even more perplexed than before. The implications of this simple statement, however, are profound. 

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‘I don't mind what happens’— what does that imply? It implies that, internally, I am in alignment with what happens. "What happens," of course, refers to the suchness of this moment, which always already is as it is. It refers to content, the form that this moment - the only moment there ever is - takes. To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens. It means not to label it mentally as good or bad, but to let it be. Does this mean you can no longer take action to bring about change in your life? On the contrary. When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of Life itself.”
https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2089

My Comment: When one factors in the relationships of absolutely all of the constants and variables leading up to the present moment, one cannot help but be in alignment with what is happening, and thus, fully realizing the backstory, one has the prescience to be able to continuously make small but significant changes in the advancing thin slivers of free will conscientiousness that we frequently inhabit. 

A similar, yet very different, ‘take on life’ is:
“George Carlin: Circling the Drain”
https://samslair.blogspot.com/2019/08/george-carlin-circling-drain.html?m=1

“We have to change ourselves. And we'll never do that...”

Note: If you are not able to master ‘not minding what happens’, then perhaps simply allow yourself to be lightly amused by what makes you feel happy and gently compassionate towards that which does not. Be simply aware of your thoughts and feelings while realizing that energy goes to what you’re paying attention to. So, qualify the energy you are sending in this manner. Cultivate a peaceful mind.

If your thoughts are intrusive, then ask yourself two questions:

Are my thoughts useful? 

https://samslair.blogspot.com/2020/10/two-questions-that-silence-negative.html?m=1

What if nothing is wrong?

https://samslair.blogspot.com/2020/10/when-troubled-ask-yourself-what-if.html?m=1