You cannot be anyone else, but only who you are. Relax! Existence needs you this way.
One day the king came to the garden and saw withering and dying trees, bushes and flowers. The oak tree said that it was dying because it could not be as tall as the pine tree. Turning to the pine tree, the king found it falling because it could not produce grapes like a grapevine. And the vine died because it cannot bloom like a rose. Soon he found one plant that gladdened his heart, blooming and fresh. After questioning, he received this answer:
“I take it for granted, because when you imprisoned me, you wanted to get joy.” If you wanted an oak, grapes or a rose, you would plant them. Therefore, I think that I cannot be anything other than what I am. And I try to develop my best qualities.
You are here because existence needed you just the way you are! Otherwise someone else would be here. You are the embodiment of something special, significant, something very important. Why do you need to be a Buddha? If God wanted another Buddha, he would have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. But he created only one Buddha, that is enough. Since then he has not created another Buddha or Christ. Instead, he created you. Think about how much attention the Universe paid to you!
You are chosen - not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna. Their work is done, they have contributed to existence. Now you are here to contribute. Look at yourself. You can only be yourself... it is impossible for you to become someone else. You can rejoice and bloom, or you can wither if you don't accept yourself.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru