There is no have to desire to be special. You are Unique, you are unique– existence never develops anything less than that. There has actually been no person like you in the past, and also there will never ever be an individual like you again. Consciousness has actually taken this form for the very first time and the last time, so there is no have to aim to come to be unique: you currently are. If you are aiming to be unique, you will come to be regular. Your very initiative is rooted in misconception. It will certainly create complication since when you try to become unique, you have taken something for approved– that you are not unique. You have missed out on the point.

You will attempt this method as well as that, as well as you will continue to be common, since your base, your structure is incorrect. Yes, you could go to the modiste as well as could get extra innovative clothes, you could obtain a new hairdo, you can make use of cosmetics. You can discover a couple of things and end up being much more educated, you could painting as well as begin believing that you are a painter, you could arrive or infamous, however deep down, you will understand that you are normal. All these points are on the exterior. Just how can you change your ordinary spirit right into an extraordinary spirit? There is no other way– and also you have actually not been provided any method, because existence never ever makes average spirits, so it can not be concerned concerning your issue. You have already been offered a special, extraordinary spirit. It has never ever been provided to any person else. This is simply created you.

Recognise that you’re special

What I would certainly like to claim to you is to recognise your specialness.

There is no requirement to get it, it is already there. Go into your self and feel it. Nobody’s thumbprint resembles your own– not even the thumbprint. Nobody’s eyes resemble yours, no one’s noise resembles your own, nobody’s flavour is like your own. You are definitely remarkable. There is not a dual of you anywhere. Even two doubles are various– howsoever alike they look, they are different. They go different means, they expand various ways, they acquire different kinds of originalities. This recognition is needed.

You ask, “Just how can I quit desiring to be unique?” Just take note of the reality. Simply enter into your being and the initiative to be special will certainly disappear. When you recognize that you are unique, the initiative will certainly go away. And if you desired me to offer you some strategy to ensure that you might stop being unique, then that method would disrupt you. Once again you would certainly be attempting to do something, again you would certainly be attempting to come to be something. You were attempting to end up being unique, now you are trying not to become unique. Yet always trying … attempting … improving in some means or other, however never accepting the you that you are.

Existence respects you

My entire message is this: Approve the you that you are, since existence approves it. Existence values it, and you have actually not valued your being. Be exceptionally satisfied that existence has picked you to be, that it has selected you to exist, to see this globe, to pay attention to this songs, to see the celebrities, to see the people, to enjoy as well as be loved– exactly what extra do you want? Rejoice in it! And also because extremely celebrating, soon, it will explode in you like lightning that you are special.

But keep in mind, it will not come as a self-centeredness that you are special as compared to others. No, because minute you will understand that everyone is unique. The common exists not.

So this is the requirement: If you think, I am unique– even more special compared to that man, more unique than that lady– then you have not understood yet. It is an ego game. Unique, not somewhat, special, not in contrast with anyone– special simply as you are.

A Zen story

A Zen master was asked by a professor who had pertained to see him, “Why am I not like you? Why am I not silent like you, why am I not smart like you? This is my desire.”

The master stated, “Wait. Sit silently. View. See me, and also enjoy yourself. When everybody else has gone, if the inquiry still continues to be, I will answer.”

The entire day long, people were coming as well as going, as well as disciples were asking questions, and also the professor was getting very agitated– time was being thrown away. However this male had said he could ask once again only when everyone else had gone.

Finally came the evening and there was nobody. And also the teacher stated, “Currently adequate suffices. I have been waiting the entire day. Exactly what concerning my inquiry?”

The moon was increasing– it was a moon evening– as well as the master said, “Have not you got the response yet?” The professor said, “Yet you never ever addressed me.”

The master giggled. He claimed, “I have been answering many individuals the whole day. If you had actually watched, you would certainly have comprehended. However come outside. Let us enter into the yard, the full moon is there as well as it is a lovely night.” When they go outside, the master claims to him, “Consider this cypress tree”– a huge Cypress Tree, standing high, nearly touching the moon. The moon was linked in its branches–” as well as take a look at this little shrub.”

But the teacher claimed, “What are you discussing? Have you neglected my question?”

The master said, “I am answering your concern. This bush and also this cypress tree have actually lived for many years in my garden. I have never listened to the bush asking the cypress tree, ‘Why am I not like you?’ As well as I have not listened to the cypress tree ask the bush, ‘Why am I not like you?’ The cypress tree is the cypress tree, and also the bush is the bush, as well as both enjoy in being themselves.”

I am myself, you are you. It is the contrast that brings conflict.

Comparison is senseless

The comparison brings ambition, and also the comparison brings replica. If you ask, “Why am I not like you?” after that you will begin attempting to resemble me, which will certainly be the downfall of your entire life. You will come to be an imitator, a carbon duplicate. When you are a copy cat, you will shed all Respect for yourself.

It is very uncommon to find an individual that appreciates himself. Why is it so rare? Why isn’t really there respect permanently– your own life? As well as if it is except your very own life, just how can it be for others? If you do not respect your personal being, just how can you value the rose bush as well as the cypress tree and also the moon and individuals? How can you appreciate your master, your father, your mommy, your close friend, your better half, your other half? Exactly how can you respect your kids if you have not respected on your own? And also it is extremely unusual to locate an individual who appreciates himself.

Stop imitating

Why is it so uncommon? Since you have actually been shown to imitate. From your extremely childhood years, you have actually been told to come to be like Christ, or become like Buddha. Why? Why should you come to be like Buddha? Buddha never became you, Buddha was Buddha. Christ was Christ, Krishna was Krishna. Why should you come to be like Krishna? What incorrect have you committed, what transgression have you committed that you should become like Krishna? Presence never created an additional Krishna, never ever developed one more Buddha, one more Christ– never ever! Because it does not like to produce the very same points over and over. It is creative thinking, it is not an assembly line– one Ford comes, another Ford, another Ford, and Ford automobiles take place coming, all alike, on the production line. Existence is not a setting up line. It creates originals, it never produces the same.

And the very same will certainly not be valuable. Just believe: a Krishna walking in the world once more– the same kind of guy. He will certainly resemble a joker! He will certainly get some area just in a circus, no place else, due to the fact that he will certainly be repeated. He will recite the Gita once again whether Arjuna is available or otherwise, whether the Mahabharata, that wonderful war, is occurring or not– however he will have to repeat his Gita. And he will certainly walk in his garments, and they will look really odd. Just assume of Jesus amidst you once again. He will certainly not fit! He will certainly run out date, he will be antique, as well as he will be valuable only in a museum, nowhere else.

Existence never ever repeats. However you have actually always been instructed to become someone else. “End up being someone else– the neighbour’s kid, end up being like him. Look just how smart he is. Look … that girl, exactly how beautifully she walks. Resemble that!” You have always been taught to be like somebody else. Nobody has actually told you to be on your own and be respectful to your being, it is a gift.

Never mimic– that’s exactly what I say. Never ever mimic. Be on your own– that much you owe to presence. Be yourself! Be authentically on your own, then you will certainly know that you are special. God has liked you a lot– that’s why you are! That’s why you remain in the starting point, otherwise, you would not have been. It is a measure of tremendous love for you.

But your specialness is not in comparison with anybody else, it is not that you are unique in contrast to your neighbours, buddies, your wife, partner. You are just special due to the fact that you are alone. You are the only individual simply like you. In that respect, because understanding, efforts to end up being unique will certainly disappear.

You are perfect as you are

All your efforts to become unique resemble placing legs on a snake. You will certainly kill the serpent. You assume … as a result of concern, you are placing legs on the serpent. Poor snake, how will he stroll without legs? As if the serpent has actually fallen in the hands of a centipede. And the centipede has wonderful empathy on the serpent, he believes, Poor snake. I have one hundred legs and he has none. Just how will he walk? He requires at the very least a couple of legs. And also if he does surgical procedure as well as puts a couple of legs on the snake, he will certainly kill the snake! The snake is flawlessly okay as he is, he need not have any type of legs.

You are flawlessly okay as you are. This is just what I call respect toward one’s own being. And also to regard oneself has absolutely nothing to do with vanity, remember. To respect oneself is not pride. To respect oneself is to value the creator, since you are just a paint– a divine paint. Respecting the painting, you respect the painter.

Respect, accept, recognise, and all those foolish efforts to be special will certainly disappear.