“I didn’t expect Kuan Yin to show up so soon. It’s extraordinary! She’s perched atop an elephant:
“I had to come in a different form today, to shake you, get you out of a certain expectation of me.”
“She wants me to come along. So I guess I’ll just come along—ride on top of this huge elephant. I’m just wondering how I will be able to climb on.”
“Don’t think like an earthling! Don’t analyze every step. Just get on.”
“It’s kind of a nice sensation. The elephant’s body is swaying heavily but gently. I feel its power and yet at the same time there is a softness and consistency to the elephant’s gait. Even though this kind of travel is slow and rocking, I’m still getting somewhere. It is a sensation that is at once soothing and yet forceful.”
“See how I don’t have to try too hard. The elephant effortlessly carries me (us) on her back.”
Silently pondering Kuan Yin’s potent communication, Lena stops speaking for a moment.
“There is something Kuan Yin is trying to show to me about love, compassion, and power,” comments Lena, from the depths of her trance. “That just experiencing the power of the elephant moving along is important. Kuan Yin is also telling me to listen to the sounds of the jungle, to just be with what is.
‘But Kuan Yin,’ I now ask, ‘How do I know when to push or to just sit and be with something?’
“I’m going to be silent for a moment and listen to Kuan Yin’s answer. I’m getting the impression that she is trying to show me how to be aware of the signals. When I said to you, Hope, I was going to listen for Kuan Yin’s answer, I noticed that the elephant turned and went towards a small lake.”
“The elephant needs a drink of water,” Kuan Yin explains. “So she temporarily veers off the path, traveling to the lake. When she’s satisfied she’ll return to the original path. The elephant’s “break,” then, is good for everyone, helping them to get along better.”
