How to Escape your Suffering-Blind Man vs the Cripple

There is a famous Indian story about the great battle between the blind man and the cripple .
In a remote village in the outskirts of Punjab there lived 2 sworn enemies. One man was blind and the other was a cripple. They were sworn enemies. No matter what one did, it would upset the other and vice versa. For years this battle raged on and the animosity between them grew fierce and caustic.
During one very hot and dry summer a terrible fire broke out in the village and began consuming everything in its path. The villagers began to flee in fear as there was no stopping the inferno. In the panic, the blind man and the cripple were forgotten and left to fend for themselves.
The blind man did not know which way to go in order to escape the fire, and the cripple, who could see the path to safety, could take no action. So both were stuck.Luckily for them, the desire to live was greater than their hatred for each other, so they decided to work together in order to save their lives. The blind man put the cripple on his shoulders, who then directed him which way to go in order to escape. Thus, working as a team, they were successful and even ended up becoming friends.
Who is the blind man and who is the cripple? The blind man is our mind and the cripple is our heart. What is the fire? The fire is our suffering. The mind is the instrument through which you can move, act — but it is blind, in that it does not know which way to go. It endlessly debates, weighing pros and cons, wobbling between what will be gained and what will be lost if certain action was to be taken. It cannot see how to escape the suffering. The heart, on the other hand, can see clearly the way out, but does not have any means to act. In order to act, it needs the mind. So they need each other. But, more importantly the heart needs to sit on top of the mind, as the cripple sat on the shoulders of the blind man. With the heart leading the way, the mind becomes intelligent. Give the heart its precedence and wisdom will then emerge and guide you safely out of your suffering.