Can the intellect be a door to enlightenment, or is enlightenment only achieved through surrender?

Beloved Osho, can the intellect be a door to enlightenment, or is enlightenment only achieved through surrender?

And then there are great insights. A man who wants to be really awake, wants to be really a Buddha, has to live each moment in such intensity -- as you live only rarely, rarely, in some danger. The first meaning is opposite to sleep. And naturally, you can see reality only when you are not asleep. You can face it, you can look into the eyes of truth -- or call it God -- only when you are awake. Do you understand the point of intensity, the point of being on fire? Utterly awake, there is insight. That insight brings freedom, that insight brings truth. The second meaning of budh is to recognize -- as to become aware of, acquainted with, to notice, give heed to. And so a Buddha is one who has recognized the false as the false, and has his eyes opened to the true as…

Osho, are surrender and enlightenment simultaneous events? If yes, then what does it indicate when even a surrendered disciple has to pass through years and years of practice?

A neighbor got tired of hearing this. A joke occurred to him: he will not take less than a hundred—there is no risk. So he put ninety-nine rupees in a pouch and, while Mulla was praying “I won’t take less than a hundred,” climbed up onto the roof and dropped the pouch through the thatch. The pouch fell. Mulla said, “Fine. First I’ll count. I never take less than a hundred.” He opened the pouch, counted—there were ninety-nine. He said, “Ah, You are quite the trickster—you deducted one rupee for the pouch. No problem.” Now the neighbor was worried. He had only intended a prank. But Mulla was saying, “You’ve cut one rupee for the pouch—no harm, it’s business, it makes sense.” If such a God even comes, wearing a peacock crown and standing at your door, understand an actor has slipped away from a play. Or a circus performer…

Osho, what is surrender? I used to think I knew. Now it is a mystery.

THE FALSE KNOWLEDGE de-mystifies existence; the true knowledge re-mystifies it. Knowing, if authentic, makes life more of a mystery than it has ever been before. Knowledge certainly covers your eyes with dark clouds, creates a wall of thick smoke, and you start feeling you know. In fact, you are going deeper into ignorance. To be knowledgeable is to be more ignorant than even the ignorant ones. The Upanishads have a tremendously significant statement. They say: The ignorant man is lost in darkness, but the knowledgeable is lost in deeper darkness than the ignorant -- because the knowledgeable lives in an "as if" world. He thinks he knows, but he knows not. He only believes; he has not seen. He believes in God, he believes in love, he believes in surrender, but belief is always a cover-up. Your wound is covered, but it is not healed that way. In fact, the…

Osho, you said that the state of the mind itself is the obstacle. And it is precisely my state of mind that has drawn me to you. You also said that the intellect is the obstacle, because the intelligent person thinks too much. And I see that you are surrounded by intelligent people.

So I say the intellect is also an obstacle. Perhaps it is indeed the intellect that has brought you this far—you must have read or heard about me, and that is why you came—but now that you are here, listen to what I am saying: set the intellect aside. Be a little no-mind with me. Let the waves subside. Become waveless for a while. The moment there are no waves, all distance between you and me disappears. In wavelessness only One remains. There I am not, and you are not—there only That is. Raso vai sah—the essence is He. Only His nectar showers. There is only the One—the same deathless elixir, the same unstruck sound, which the Zen mystics call the sound of one hand clapping. There is not even a second hand to clap. Which the Hindus call the sound of Om—there, there is no one producing the sound;…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, THERE IS NOTHING TO ATTAIN ONLY IF THE PERSON TRULY POSSESSES THE FACULTY OF WISDOM AND WILL POWER WILL HE CONSENT TO STEP BACK AND REFLECT. YUNG CHIA ALSO SAID, "THE REAL NATURE OF IGNORANCE IS IDENTICAL TO THE NATURE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. ORIGINAL INHERENT NATURE IS THE NATURALLY REAL ENLIGHTENED ONE." IF YOU THINK LIKE THIS, SUDDENLY, IN THE PLACE WHERE THOUGHT CANNOT REACH, YOU WILL SEE THE BODY OF REALITY IN WHICH THERE IS NOT A SINGLE THING -- THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU TO GET OUT OF BIRTH AND DEATH. WHAT I SAID BEFORE, THAT ONE CANNOT SEEK THE DHARMA, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO ATTAIN, WITH THE ATTITUDE THAT THERE is SOMETHING TO ATTAIN, IS JUST THIS PRINCIPLE.