Zen story: The stone koan

Yes, we are conscious beings, and we should do our best to live awarely, and not allow life, or others, to push/kick us around, but still, we should listen to life, and to God, to live in the best way we can do so, too.

@innertalks our conscience won't fail us when we listen to it. Remember we're here to search for happiness.

@innertalks That's right. God is omnipresent He can be reached everywhere. Just spend a little time for Him to communicate.

Thanks. Yes, our mind can get in the way, and block us, of our going in the right direction for us.

Yes, we need discernment to not follow idle and reckless thoughts, as thrown at us by our mind. We should not immediately savour these bones of thought, but let them go actionless, until our heart checks them first to ascertain if they are worthy enough thoughts for us to follow, and action too. We do need to kerb our mind from running us blind, up the wrong garden path for us, and to be better steered by our higher self, and its whispers of right action, always coming into our heart, if we listen to them constantly, awarely.

@innertalks The heart should act not only as a sieve to separate the wheat from chaff, as it were, but also reflect our inner knowing inspired through our unbroken connection to our creator. We take certain paths that can prove irreversible and too late to retract. The world is full of pitfalls, blind turnings, charlatans out to hoodwink us. Our life is akin to a steeplechase race involving water jumps too. No one promised us life here will be fun! I read about someone threatening to sue his parents for giving him life without his consent! Food for thought!

@Shiva49 I doubt if he won such a frivolous claim, though. And, if the truth be known, it was probably his own soul, working with God, that decided he be born to those parents. Most wrong paths can still be corrected, if we wake up to the fact that we are going wrong, unless an entrenched mind set prevents us from changing. Our inner knowing never stops trying to get its own message through to us, and will use every means at its disposal to do so, but, would never resort to foul means, I would say. If we get sick, and it is a wakeup call for us, so we start to listen to inner guidance, that is good, but it does not mean that the sickness was foist upon us by our higher self, as it is usually a result of our own lifestyle.

Yes, even our body often kicks us around too. We need to be more mindful about what controls us.

Yes, guidance comes into our heart, and our mind, from our higher self, and sometimes from a higher power source too. We should not ignore such gut feelings, but when we allow our mind to fixate on pursuing idle, or attached pursuits, this fixation can block us from hearing the still quiet voice of our soul, or higher self, so we are driven by such desires, away from that indicated to us by love, which should not be a desire either, but remain unconditional, in its efforts, and ways of operating in us.