Is the experience of feeling loved and accepted during imagination real or just a mind game?
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"True love and acceptance become real when you can consciously recreate the experience; otherwise, they remain mere dreams, fleeting and uncontrollable."
According to Osho, an inner experience like feeling loved and accepted is real if you can consciously reproduce it exactly, again and again; then it’s not imagination but a doorway to meditation. If it happens once and cannot be managed to return, it’s a mind game, a dream. Reality endures and is testable; dreams are fleeting and uncontrollable.
If you can make that warm, loved feeling come back the same way on purpose many times, it’s real; if it only shows up once and you can’t bring it back, it was just a dream.
Why this matters practically
- Gives you a simple test: try to repeat the state; consistency shows authenticity.
- Stops you chasing fantasies, saving time and emotional energy.
- Turns real, repeatable feelings into a meditation practice you can deepen.
- Stops you chasing fantasies, saving time and emotional energy.
- Turns real, repeatable feelings into a meditation practice you can deepen.
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