Can imagination be used to reach the infinite and the absolute?
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outcome
"Imagination can only create a finite world; true awakening comes when you drop the ladder of suggestion and embrace pure awareness, revealing the infinite within."
According to Osho, imagination, auto-suggestion and hypnosis fabricate a finite world; reversing and withdrawing these projections through de-hypnosis—meditation as growing alertness—reveals the ever-present infinite and absolute. The path is the same mechanism, but in the opposite direction: from sleep to awareness, from conditioning to unconditioning. Use suggestion only as a ladder toward wakefulness, then drop it; pure awareness knows the real.
Your make-believe stories hide the endless; stop making them and wake up, and the endless is already here.
Why this matters practically
- Redirects mental habits from fantasy to awareness.
- Offers a practical step: use self-suggestion to heighten alertness, then let it go.
- Dissolves suffering by undoing conditioning that creates a sense of limitation.
- Offers a practical step: use self-suggestion to heighten alertness, then let it go.
- Dissolves suffering by undoing conditioning that creates a sense of limitation.
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