Shu Fu & Mistress Peony: Difficulty

May 19, 2004

Difficulty/Bravery Transcript

—Just notice the energy that’s around.  Our ability to be with what is, what we’re feeling, the realities that are part of life.  Whatever words we might want to put to it.  Just be aware of what’s with us, what we’ve brought in with us. 

I call us into Sacred Space.  I ask for the guardianship and the blessings of the Grandmothers and Grandfathers of the Sacred Directions, and from all points around the wheel.  I ask for the presence and energy, the grounding and the nurturance of Mother Earth. 

And call on each one of us to energetically become our mountain self with a wide base that connects to Mother Earth.  A wide, wide base that draws in her chi.  

And let that float through us, filling all the space within us, and exiting our crowns, our peak, and flowing down around us in our own auric field, and enriching the field of Sacred Space. 

I also ask for the presence and blessings of Father Sky and the universe which literally surrounds us.  Above us, to our sides, and beneath us, beneath Mother Earth, we are floating in a vast cosmos.  

And from this vastness I ask that our small selves be connected to that which is Sacred.  So that we can grow in our own wisdom, and in our own ability to influence and affect that which is ours to affect. 

Into this Sacred Space I invite our Spirit guides.  I ask that each one present soften their energy field to their guidance, so that we all draw on knowing that is greater and stronger than our own.  And which guides us into alignment with living from our own wisdom and our own greatness. Thank you.—

Good Evening.  I am of the lineage of Mistress Peony, and I am much older than she is.  

I came to you tonight to try to give some comfort in this reality of difficulty.  My people know a great deal about difficulty.  And we have for centuries.  And we do so even now.  And one might ask, “Why does difficulty pursue even the kindest, gentle wise ones?” 

Isn’t this a good question to have?  So, it is because it’s part of your spiritual evolution.  And this is not something which we anticipate for you to manifest in any quick manner, or in even this lifetime.  

And even now we are placing seeds within you for your evolution, and perhaps even for your evolution of future lives. 

So, when you see the sorrow of your life.  You see the sorrow of lives around you.  You see there is always sorrow in life.  

And, it’s only a more modern concept to think that you should not have sorrows, or that sorrow is an injustice, or that sorrow is a sign of your own failure.  

And it is none of these.  It is part of the human condition, the life on some level of being. 

And, what it does is it encourages you to go to another level of your truth, who you are.  Because the sorrows are connected very much to false reality, to the temporal world which is an illusion.  

And the truth of you is Spirit which goes on when you are dying. 

Certainly, the sorrows then give you some practice for identifying with your deeper, truer nature.  

You would not choose to go to the depths of your spiritual nature without some prompting, without some guidance from a balance between ecstasy and a motivating force, to find a simpler aspect of you. 

Because otherwise, the human ego has so many marvelous disguises.  Makes you think something’s so important.  Some aspect of yourself, some new skill to develop, some spiritual perfection which will make you feel always good.  

And the truth is so much more tentative than that. 

So, sometimes we come and we quickly change the energy around you, because we want you to feel the connection with Spirit.  

So that you can identify with this aspect of yourself, and know how much change and transformation is possible.  And how much genuine, true nurturance is there for you, available to make you feel more whole.  This is truth also. 

But now, coincidentally, she told you to be aware of the energy field before she began. 

So feel it even now.  Feel the sorrows of those that you love.  Feel the sorrows of strangers.  See the injustices of humankind.  Sense the mortality of those you love.  Sense your own mortality. 

And now, in the core of your being, find the light.  Find a glow of substance that is present amid the heaviness which sits upon you now.  Find the glow of the eternal you. 

Now, sense its qualities.  Its quality of silence.  This quality of completeness.  Allow this to spread in your core of your being.  And have no concern about physical discomforts.  There is space for all reality.  

Allow this core of yourself to find connection with that which is within you and greater than you.  Your interior light may be small, but it is intense.  

Let the peace from this place emanate through your body.  It is quite wordless, so feel it. 

Some of you are afraid.  Hold the fear, hold it.  And hold the light.  You are children who are growing so well in a time of great confusion.  

The transformation which is surrounding you requires surrender in addition to bravery.  You must be comfortable with standing in the unknown, and holding your fear in honor next to your curiosity. 

Much will fall away from yourselves, from the culture you have been raised in, in the years to come.  

Your survival of your Spirit will be dependent upon your ability to feel some inner peace, and a knowing that all that is of consequence is your kindness to yourself and to others.  

To be a blessing unto those whom you are in the presence of is the true gift.  All else will fall away. 

Now, feel again the space around you.  We are still in great darkness, but you may note an increasing ability to see in the dark.  

When you cease to see what is happening as darkness, then you develop eyes of the night time.  And you may see the light in someone else.  And you will see more easily the Sacred in all that you behold. 

And your consciousness will become quite different than the common consciousness, quite different than what you thought even your wise self might be.  

This is before you.  And allow it to take the years that it takes.  Or allow it to come in the moments where it comes. 

When you need comfort, know that you are like little turtles which I carry upon my back.  

I carry you with joy.  I carry you with abundance of love in my heart.  And we move on together, into and through the evolution of humankind. 

I have heard you say you would like the encumbrances of this practical life to lift.  And we are here, in truth, our greatest concern is to carry you to deeper levels of being and consciousness.  

So, only watch that you do not throw road blocks in your path in order to discourage yourself from knowing the simplicity of who you truly are. 

You are my children, and the children of many others.  

In your darkness, with no effort whatsoever, be open for the light.  Do not be trying so hard that you miss what comes to you.  

Be more simple with your mind, more quiet.  And open in your hearts, soft and gentle.  This is what people see in you.  They recognize it whether they know it or not.  

Now, I will leave you. 

—Thank you for your presence.—

You are all most welcome little turtles. 

Well, you have had a great teaching from a great teacher.  And now, let us lighten this Sacred Space, although it is quite shifted. 

He was guiding you through darkness, great blinding darkness.  Preparing you for, not for the frightening things of childish imagination, but the realities of life.  

Everyone who has a body, a physical form, will leave it one day.  And many in your culture now choose to stay and hold onto a physical form for no apparent reason, and sometimes experiencing much misery in the process. 

And maybe this is their way of doing what he is trying to teach tonight.  

Can you see a parallel in the illusions which people face, in the mental illnesses which people face, where they are deeply lost.  They’re quite lost from themselves.  

But they are walking in the darkness trying to find, what we used to call and still do, their inner deity. 

This is about your inner deity.  Each of you touch your body where you feel this deity might reside.  And of course, it doesn’t reside only there.  It resides like a hologram in each of your cells.  

But sometimes for comfort, you can come to that sense of center of where you are.  And it may change at different times.  

Sometimes we willingly come back.  Sometimes we refuse.  You can play with this, with seeing how you shift your field.  

But with reverence come to connect with your inner deity.  In reverence for yourself, and that which is beyond you.  That which is you, and that which is all else. 

 These are the lessons which we can give you. 

Now, let fall away into the Earth some of the drama of your lives.  The energies from some of the stories which are real, which you focus your conscious mind on a great deal.  

Let your guidance comb your energy field.  Allow that process to continue. 

Learn to identify drama, and not to cleave to it, not be drawn into it.  It is like a maze which takes you nowhere.  

Return to the simple self.  It is not so exciting.  

And all your culture is surrounded by what is exciting.  All the energies on the movies.  All the energy in the “who is famous.”  It’s so false.  It’s so shallow. 

And yet, we feel real and alive when we have drama.  Who are you without the drama? 

Allow your body to stretch slightly with the dropping of the drama from your muscles.  Allow your spinal cord to gently self adjust with dropping drama.  

Allow your lungs to fill with greater space and freedom. 

Our lessons are quite simple, and yet they will change the very fabric of your being.  

You have thus far chosen a path towards the Sacred, towards embodying your sacredness.  

You must choose this again and again.  But it is your choice.  And in this simplicity true peace and happiness are present. 

Now, do any of you have questions for us tonight?

—How can we carry this peace with us back into our lives?— 

This is a practice.  It is a spiritual practice.  And it is to remind yourself.  

So, everyone in this moment find some hand position which you feel holds your Sacred identity.  These are very ancient mudras.  

All right, when you need this support, find your hand position or mudra.  Perhaps touch your body is another step.  Come to your core.  

As always, feel your grounding to the Earth, your connection to the sky, and touch yourself, a pensive gesture.  Come home to yourself. 

You will find that this core of peace exists within you underneath the drama.  It is always present.  So find your physical way now.  Access, come more deeply. 

And then in the midst of this learn to identify drama.  So much of it will be legitimate to you, but yet almost all of it is drama. 

True sorrow is true sorrow, and you feel it, and it washes over you, and it’s gone.  

Recurring thoughts are part of the maze.  If you can do more of the allowing the knowing to come to you, rather than effort-ing towards it, more will come. 

You may want to develop some exercises like, “Simple breath, simple being.”  So say this to yourself when you find your complexity becoming burdensome.  “Simple breath, simple being.”  

And find compassion in your heart for all the times when you lose the way, because there is very little in the culture which surrounds you that supports this clarity and simplicity of being.  

Always seek to be kind to yourself. 

Reprogramming your consciousness.  Give yourself rest.  

Give your body good nourishment.  Breathing, walking, food.  Influence the energetic make-up of your food by holding your plate and giving thanks to it.  It will nourish you more deeply. 

So, let us all hold fear.  Let us all hold discouragement.  Let us all hold when we thought we knew the way, and it wasn’t quite right.  

And let us hold ourselves in compassion for always discovering again and again the truth which keeps coming.  And which we keep having the bravery to open to. 

This is your precipice.  This is your standing on the edge of the unknown.  Come to your simple self.  Come to your sweetness.  

Come here in the midst of challenge to the simple core of your being, that light which shines. 

Allow that light to infuse you.  Allow it to grow in the midst of the poetic darkness, the metaphoric darkness.  

And know and see that in this darkness there is always the light. 

You are seeking to tip the scales of human kindness.  You are seeking to tip the scales of human capacity for compassion to dominate.  

Your efforts are important for your own being and beyond your own being.  And this is why we hold you in our love. 

This is why the great aged Grandfather carries us like little turtles on his back, in a dimension which changes reality.  It’s more real than this dimension.  

This is samsara.  This is illusion.  Your questions and your struggles are very temporary. 

Hold love and compassion in your heart for yourself as we do.  

Allow yourself to be simple.  Allow yourself to live from the light within you. 

We support you in this mysterious process, and we commend your bravery.  And we commend your sweetness.  

We commend you for this moment transcending your normal consciousness.  You are beloved to us.  Sleep with our love tonight.