How is total giving possible when there is curiosity and doubt?

Osho, you said the first condition should be curiosity and thirst, and secondly that one should be able to give oneself totally. As long as there is curiosity, there is doubt—then how is total giving possible?

In fact, on the day inquiry is complete, doubt will no longer remain. This is a very interesting point; it’s worth understanding a little. When does doubt actually arise? Inquiry is not doubt. Doubt happens only to those who have some belief. One who has a belief can doubt; but if one has no belief, what is there to doubt? On what will doubt stand? How will you doubt? Where there is search, there is neither doubt nor belief. Doubt arises only when there has been some prior belief; it is born in opposition to a preconceived belief. Someone says, “I doubt God.” That means he must have had some belief in God—otherwise how would the doubt arise? No—the seeker has neither doubt nor belief. The seeker says, “I don’t know—so how can I doubt? How can I believe?” The seeker is not an unbeliever. The seeker’s mind is unclouded,…

Osho, you say the same thing in countless ways. But when I listen to you, it feels as if I am hearing it for the first time. And I feel so much joy that I don’t feel like going back home. What should I do—what can I do—so that I can just keep listening to you!

You will feel as if you have been made to rise out of season, before time—as if you were not yet to go and yet had to go. And if you go in that way, your home will become even more desolate than before. I do not want to make your home desolate; I want to make your home a temple. I want that when you go home, your home’s new form is revealed. I do not want to tear you away from home, from the world, from family life. That is the newness of my sannyas: I do not want to sever you from the world; I want to join you to the world in such a way that your connection with the world becomes a connection with the Divine. Let the world no longer be a barrier between you and the Divine; let it become a means. If…

Osho, what do those people mean who say that, so that there is no explosion, one should search within with a subtle, refined vision...

But the effortless awakening I speak of—once it arrives, there is no question of its departure, because you did not bring it; it came. Gradually you and awakening are not two; you are the awakening. You did not make even anger “the other,” so how would awakening be “other”? It becomes you. There is no question of its return. Whatever we have truly known cannot be unknown. You cannot undo knowing. Yes, what we have merely learned by rote can wobble. But what is known—like a child who comes to know love; once he knows, he cannot un‑know it. Knowing becomes part of you; it cannot fall away. Reading four books about love is different; that can be forgotten. Through the experiment of awakening, whatever happens in us reveals itself gradually. Awakening is not something that comes from outside; it is your inner being uncovering itself. If it were an…

Beloved Osho, questions seem to be the offspring of the capacity to doubt; and doubt, the spark of an alive and active intelligence. Without questions -- and thus, without doubt -- how can intelligence continue to flourish? And yet within you is the ultimate in silence and the ultimate in intelligence.

It is true in the beginning. Doubt helps your intelligence, sharpens it. Questioning makes you aware of many possibilities of which you may not have been aware before. But this is only the beginning of the journey. At the end, when all your questions have disappeared... and the real master never gives you the answer. Let me repeat it: the real master never gives you the answer, so you cannot doubt it. He brings you to a point where all your questions disappear. His answers are murderous, killing your questions, destroying them mercilessly, to bring you to a point where there is no question in your consciousness. The master does not give you any answer that you can doubt. This non-questioning consciousness is the answer. And it is your experience; you cannot doubt it, it is there. From this point, silence and intelligence are just two aspects of the same…

Osho, you said that doubting oneself leads to faith; then tell us, where will doubt about faith lead?

Understand a few things. One: Doubt ordinarily does not doubt doubt itself; if it does, doubt dies. Doubt is complete only when doubt itself comes under doubt. Only then are you a true thinker; only then is there some genius in you. If you doubt everything but never doubt doubt, your thinking is not complete; you have not reached the peak; your doubt is incomplete; your atheism is not profound. When, doubting and doubting, you come to that moment where doubt arises about doubt itself—“That which I have assumed and followed till now, is it even worthy of being assumed? That which I have been following like a shadow, is it worth following? Will it take me anywhere? I have made doubt my master—was it worthy of being a master?”—the day you become suspicious about doubt, that very day doubt dies. On the death of doubt, faith is born. A…