Why do teachers answer questions?
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"A teacher's answers are not final truths but seeds of inquiry, meant to unsettle your certainty and ignite the flame of your own inner search. Only through your own seeing can you truly be free."
According to Osho, teachers answer not to provide final truths but to provoke deeper questioning until inquiry saturates you. No borrowed answer can ever be yours; only your own seeing frees you. Thus a teacher’s “answers” are devices to unsettle certainty, multiply questions, and catalyze the inner search through which the soul grows.
He replies so your questions grow bigger, pushing you to discover truth yourself instead of copying his.
Why this matters practically
- Cultivates self-inquiry instead of dependence on authorities.
- Prevents secondhand beliefs and rigid dogma.
- Turns confusion into a fertile, honest path of growth.
- Prevents secondhand beliefs and rigid dogma.
- Turns confusion into a fertile, honest path of growth.
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