People who find life full of struggles tend to become "overcoming" specialists; warriors against obstacles and impediments so to speak. I kind of always put myself in this category without being aware of the fact. And I have used it as a weapon even when it came to impediments and obstacles within myself, internal to me...with very little success.
Then today a penny dropped. I was reading Osho's Secrets of Yoga where he says, "Overcoming is a repression: it is a conquering over. You fight, you force it down, you jump on the chest of it and you sit there, you wrestle with it; then it is overcoming. But it is always there and you are caught in a trap; now you cannot leave it because the moment you get off, it will get up. Overcoming is not the same as transcending...Overcoming comes through struggle. Transcending comes through understanding."
The passage spoke to me. Almost as if it was written just for me. It shed instant and blinding light on several areas of and incidents in my life.
I will try now not to overcome. Perhaps I might then transcend.
