troubled thoughts

Instead of conditioning the next moment with troubled thoughts,

 you surrender your investment in them;

 now the next moment is open, untroubled, and free. 

 

 There is no need to judge the world around you; 

you simply allow it to be what it is. 

 

 If the situation calls for a response from you, fine; you respond,

 not from defensiveness or judgment, but from the natural ease of your presence.

 

  In the quiet mystery of surrendering your thoughts,

 you have released any fixity of belief or position-taking,

 and you are welcomed by openness, quiet, and a most subtle joy

 - a lightness of being. 

 

 In surrendering something of no real value, 

you have gained the world. 

 In the openness of unknowing, 

you are completely safe and innocent.

~ Pir Elias Amidon

from Free Medicine 

art by Dali