A meditation on the mind's habit of looking past the obvious. Sometimes the answer isn't buried under anything — it's the thing carrying everything else. This is a space to stop searching the straw.

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Every day, Nasruddin crossed the border with a donkey loaded with straw.Every day, the guards stopped him. Searched the straw. Found nothing.This went on for years.They knew he was smuggling something.They just couldn't figure out what.Decades later, a retired guard ran into Nasruddin at a tea house."I'm retired now. It doesn't matter anymore. But please — tell me. What were you smuggling?"Nasruddin smiled."The donkeys. I was smuggling the donkeys."The mind searches the straw. It picks apart the details, the story, the words — looking for the hidden thing.But sometimes the answer isn't buried inside anything.It's the thing carrying everything else.And you missed it — because you were sure it had to be hidden.Namaste.