Pear seeds do not become apples
Directly from Buddha comes this wise sentence, which unfolds its full effect only with time, namely when "one" thinks about it.
Pears and apples have certain similarities, grow on (fruit) trees, the seeds look pretty much the same, but still, some fruits are pears, but others are apples. They have a common basic consistency, but they taste completely different.
But what did the Buddha want to express with this wisdom?
In my opinion, the teacher of all teachers wanted to point out to his followers that no unrealistic expectations will bring things further, but that we humans should be content with what we have.
Often we want unrealistic things, we wish, we want, we struggle with fate, why me, the world has conspired against me, I always have bad luck. So "one" often hears, people tell themselves such nonsense. We want to get apples from pear seeds, we are not satisfied with anything, but we know what comes next.
Deep inside we realize why Buddha left this sentence, we draw peace and tranquility from his wisdom, we can meditate on this sentence, always find new aspects of the philosophy of the teacher of all teachers in these few words, which are full of primordial knowledge, which explain our human shortcomings well.
What do you think when you hear these words, do you feel your mortality, how your life is slowly fading away? This incarnation, not universal being. Pear seeds do not become apples, never, apple seeds do not become pears either.
This life is just a dream, nothing is real, everything is just an imagination, we have turned against everything that should be important to us, simply because we have understood NOTHING, will understand nothing. We follow the Buddha's teaching because we instinctively feel that the miserable life is not everything, cannot be everything.
I suggest you to meditate on this sentence of Buddha, in the darkness we wait for the light, thereby we know, we feel what is "real" behind the scenes. The seeds stand as symbols for the teaching, the worldview that Buddha found, that makes the enlightened beings free.
Who does not want to get behind the secrets of the universe, to see through the mysteries of creation, who does not want to be free from fears and hardships?
If you are to become a pear, then it is so, nothing you can do against it, under no circumstances you become an apple.
The way is and remains the goal!

One should not look for peace outside, only within oneself. He who has found the inner silence does not reach for anything, nor does he reject anything.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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