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the whole day. If the idea comes, immediately change it by a positive thing. Say no to it. Drop it immediately; throw it away. Then I will explain how it functions. First experience that it functions; then it is very easy to understand how it functions.
[A sannyasin says: I have recently been going back into Primal experiences, but my imagination is so big, I don't know what is real.
She describes and experience before she was born and another as a baby. Osho checks her energy.]
It has nothing to do with imagination. You have come across some actual experiences, so go deeper into it.
Don't think that they are imaginary. If you think that, the mind starts repressing them. The very idea that they are imaginary is condemnatory, because we have been taught that imagination is something wrong; that it is not real, it is unreal. Imagination has its own reality.
But don't be bothered to label what it is. Simply go into it. It is going to reconcile many things in you. There are a few conflicts hanging. Once you go into those experiences more deeply, they will be resolved. Nothing else is needed but just going into them, resolving them, reliving them as totally as possible. So forget whether they are real or imaginary. They are going to have a real effect on you -- that is the most important thing.
Buddha has a very different definition of reality. He says that whatsoever has a real effect is real. If in the night you have a dream, a nightmare, and then you are awakened by the nightmare it is too much and you cannot bear it; you see your hands are trembling, your body is perspiring, you are tense -- then Buddha says the nightmare was real, because this was a real effect. How is a real effect possible from an unreal thing?
If the fruit decides what type of tree this is, then the result decides whether the thing and the situation was real or not. If the result is real, the situation is real. So don't be bothered. The result is going to show immediately; then you will be completely satisfied that it was a real experience.
[A sannyasin visitor, who had travelled in India visiting many gurus, and had written two books on
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