According to Osho, genuinely having no questions is a profound sign: the nonquestioning consciousness itself is the answer, bringing ease, silence, and transformation (samadhi, Buddha-mind). The problem is not questions but the questioning mind, which multiplies doubts. Yet don't suppress; if questions remain, ask them until their futility is seen. When they naturally drop, life's mystery is embraced without anxiety.
Yes—if it’s real: a truly quiet mind needs no questions; if doubts still sit inside, ask them until they fade on their own.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Is it a very good sign that one has no questions to ask?
If really it happens that you have no questions to ask, it is a tremendous phenomenon. It is one of the most beautiful _ states of mind; because when there are no questions, that nonquestioning consciousness is the answer to all questions. Not that you get the answers, but, simply, questions dissolve. The mind becomes nontense, because each question is a tension, is a worry; it is an anxiety. And no answer is going to solve the question. The questioning mind is the problem, not the question. Your question can be answered, but from the answer your questioning mind will create a thousand and one more questions; you will reduce every answer into many more questions. It never helps. It helps only when all questions drop, when consciousness transcends questioning, when you understand that there is nothing to be asked, nothing to be answered. Life is a mystery, not a…
Question: WHY DON'T I HAVE A QUESTION? It is from Vani. You are fortunate, Vani. Now don't bring the question from the back door, don't become worried about it -- 'Why don't I have a question?' You are fortunate, you are blessed, because not to have a question means you are getting ready to have the answer. A person who is too full of questions will never receive the answer, remember. Ordinarily people think 'How are you going to get the answer if you don't ask?' It is wrong. You only get the answer when there is no question. A non-questioning mind arrives; a questioning mind never arrives. If you ask -- yes, some answer will be given to you, but it will never be received.
Beloved Osho, are we really looking for the answer to our numerous questions? It occurs to me there must be, for each of us present here, one question that characterizes us, and which, if we could just pinpoint it, would act like a beacon. Then that question would be enough in itself and without the need for an answer.
In fact there is no question which will be an answer to you. The reality is unquestionably here. All your questions are not really in search of answers -- but they can put you in great trouble. If the man you are asking the question to is a scholar, a pedagogue, then he can give you an answer which will create thousands of questions. You had come only with one question; he has given one answer. Now that answer creates thousands of questions -- and that's how it has been going on in philosophy, in theology. Each question leads to an answer, and that answer leads to many questions. And this goes on growing. In fact, if the man you are asking knows, then he is not answering your question; he is destroying it. He is trying that you get rid of it. He is not putting an answer in…
Osho, I don't seem to have any real questions. Is there something wrong with me or is it because I am a polack?
IT is NICE of you to accept that you are a Polack! This is the beginning of getting out of being a Polack. Polacks hide it. There are many hidden Polacks here, they are everywhere. If you ask a Polack, "Who are you?" he will say, "Why are you asking? Who are you to ask me? I am not a Polack!" It is good that you accept. The moment a person accepts that "I am ignorant," he has taken the first step towards knowing, towards wisdom. Only the stupid person claims knowledge; the intelligent person never claims knowledge. The intelligent person has no claim about anything. All that he can say is, "I know only one thing, that I know nothing." He is as innocent as a child. Nothing is wrong with you, Nanda. If there was something wrong with you there would be questions. Questions arise out of something…
Osho, I want to ask something, but nothing seems worth asking. I am in a very wobbly state. At times an ecstasy surrounds me, and suddenly everything becomes desolate again! Please guide me.
Dariya speaks truly: Practice meditation; don’t worry about knowledge. Worry about knowledge, and you will be led astray. Knowledge will lead you into more and more questions. What will meditation lead you into? A state beyond questions. Let the question mark be—don’t fuss with it. Dismiss thoughts, dismiss questions; leave the question mark standing alone. And you will be astonished: as when you remove all the pillars of a temple, the roof collapses—so, the day you remove all the pillars of thought, the roof of the question mark will collapse. No questions will remain, and the question mark will not remain. If there is no bamboo, there is no flute. And where there are no questions and no question mark, samadhi appears. In that samadhi is resolution. That is the search. That is the ache. That is the thirst. You say, “I am in a very wobbly state.” Everyone is…