Now there's another story about this camel trader,
An Arab,
Walking across the Sahara desert and they pitch tent for the night and slaves drive pegs into the ground and tie the camels to the pegs.
Then they come in to say to the master,
There's only 19 pegs and we've got 20 camels,
How do we tie the 20th camel?
And the master said,
These camels are stupid animals,
Just go through the motions of tying the camel and he'll stay put all night,
Which is what they did and the camel stood there,
You know.
And next morning when they lifted tent and they continued on their journey,
The slaves came to complain that all the camels were following except this one,
This one refused to budge.
And the master said,
You forgot to untie him.
They said,
Oh yes,
So they went through the motions of untying him.
That is an image of the human condition.
We're scared about things that are not.
We're tied to things that don't exist.
They're illusions.
They're falsehoods.
They're beliefs.
They're not realities.
The agonies we go through over things that we have convinced ourselves our happiness depends upon,
But it doesn't.
And we don't want to see it.
The mystics,
They understand this because they went through this themselves.
They're in amazement.
People would fool themselves in this way.
You don't need anyone else to show you the way.
You just get a glimpse of this and you keep at it.
You'll find the way and sooner or later you'll discover what this means.
You're tied to things that don't exist.
They don't exist.
They're illusions.
