How Do We Work With the Challenging Energies?

The buddha spent the night under the bodi tree and met all those attacks of mara with loving presents, and they turned into flower petals. And he was very awake at the arriving of dawn, but he wasn't yet free. That's when mara brought forth the largest challenge, the deepest, most challenging energy that comes forth from our shadow or olymbic system. We just don't feel we have enough resourcefulness to be with the difficulties. So there's final story i'll tell that is really, how do we work with the challenging energies we don't feel resourceful enough.