Another card from the Wild Treats Osho Neo-Tarot Deck. Selected two days in a row:
28. SELF ACCEPTANCE
You can be no one but who you are. So relax! Existence needs you as you are.
I have heard:
A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs, and flowers.
The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom like the rose.
Then he found one plant, hearts-ease, blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, he received this reply:
“I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted hearts-ease. If you had desired an oak, a vine, or a rose, you would have planted them. So I thought, since I can be nothing but what I am, I shall try to be that to the best of my ability.”
You are hear because this existence needs you to be as you are! Otherwise somebody else would have been here. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental as you are.
Why should you become a Buddha? If God had wanted another Buddha, he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha and that was enough. Since then he has not produced another Buddha, or another Christ. He has created you instead. Just think of the respect the universe has given to you! You have been chosen _ not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna.
Their work is done, they have contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you are here to contribute your fragrance.
Just look at yourself. You can be only yourself..there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away and condemn it.
I am seriously getting a tarot deck when I get home as a part of my daily meditation. First highlighted card.
