You can be no one but who you are. So relax! Existence needs you as you are.

    你或许谁都不是也没有名声， 但你就是你。所以放轻松吧！存在就是要你本来的这个样子。

   I have heard:

    我听说：

   A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying tree, shrubs and flowers.

 有一个国王走进他的花园，发现 了花园里的花草树木逐渐的凋零枯萎。

   The oak said I 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.

 当他正纳闷的时候，凋零殆尽的 橡木(Oak)用危危颤颤的声音开口向国王诉苦：「为什么我不能像松树一样，长得又高又挺直？」

国王转头看着高大的松树(Pine)却发现松树针叶飘了满地都是，原来松树在那儿自叹自怜为什么不能像葡萄树一样可以结实累累让人们 享用？

 这时国王往旁一看，却瞥见了葡 萄树(Vine)枯藤落叶奄奄一息，原来葡萄树羡慕玫瑰花(Rose)的 娇艳多姿，喃喃低语自怨自艾着，觉得自己活在这世界上一点意义都没有。

   Then he found one plant, hearts-ease, blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, he received this reply:

 看到满园子的凄凉、萧瑟，国王 无奈的环顾四周，终于在一个角落发现到一丛开得灿烂的三色堇(Hearts-ease)，它们风姿 绰约地在风中自在摇曳着，国王不可置信地瞪大眼睛问着：「你们怎么可以长得这么茂盛又这么鲜活？」 

   “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.”

 三色堇迎着风笑开怀的说：「国 王呀！国王，我打从心里知道，您的花园需要橡树时您会栽种橡树，您想观看松树时您会种下松树，您想吃葡萄的时候您会种葡萄树，当您要欣赏玫瑰花时您会栽植 玫瑰花丛，可想而知，您会种下三色堇您就是要我们三色堇本来的样子，我多么的欢喜我就是您想要的三色堇，所以我尽可能地将我最美的部份展现给您。」

   You are here because this existence needs you as you are! Otherwise somebody else would have been here. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, as you are.

    你之所以在这里是因为存在需 要本来的你的在！要不然会是其他人在这里的。你履行了生命本然的面貌，生存的根本基础，就是成为你自己。

   Why should you become a Buddha? If God had wanted another Buddha he would 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.

    为什么你该要成为佛陀呢？如 果上帝需要另外一位佛，祂会依祂的需求创造出更多的佛，但这世上只有一位佛陀，这之后没有其他的佛陀再出现，也没有另外的基督再降临，祂却精心创造了你来 替代他们。好好想想宇宙赋予你的敬意！你是被慎选出来的 ─ 不是佛陀，不是基督更不是克里虚纳(Krishna)。

   Their work is done, they have contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you are here to contribute your fragrance.

    佛陀、基督与克里虚纳(Krishna)等人的工作已完成了，他们与存在分享了他们的芳香，现在应该是你来散发芬芳了。

   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 if you condemn it.

    看看你自己，你也只能成为你 自己…根本不可能成为其他任何一个人，你可以好好享受自己让自己盛放开花，不过如果你处处谴责自己 不接受自己，你也只有逐渐萎顿衰亡了。

——该文转载于我亲爱的朋友Karuna 斐玲 分享给我的邮件，去年我在印度普纳遇见她，结下深厚的友谊，我喜欢她的文笔和为人，谢谢她为大家做的努力。