What happens when all questions disappear from the mind?

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…

Osho, when I left home my mind was whirling with countless questions. By now I have heard three of your talks. And yesterday, after hearing the story of the bride in the palanquin, suddenly all the questions disappeared. And now the question is: why and how did this happen? Please explain.

Wait a little—the new one will disappear too. Questions arise in haste; for one who can wait, they vanish on their own. Questions don’t really have answers. No question has an answer. Your understanding grows and the questions disappear. What grows is understanding, not answers to questions. Keep this in mind. A small child plays with toys. Then he grows up. When he was little, if you took his toys away, there was trouble. He couldn’t even sleep without them, couldn’t eat without them. The toys were everything—companions, the whole world. Then one day he suddenly leaves those toys in a corner and forgets them. They don’t even occur to him. What happened? The child grew. The time for toys passed. The intellect matured a little; understanding rose a little. From the level of understanding at which questions arise, if you remain stuck there, there is no solution. Rise just…

India’s entire grasp, its whole approach to truth, is not to obtain answers from without, but to open a door within. When that door opens, it is not that particular answers are obtained—rather, the questions drop. Getting answers to questions is one thing; the dropping of the questions is a matter of an altogether different dimension. The important thing is not the obtaining of answers; the important thing is the dropping of questions. The long yogic experiments of our land have yielded certain conclusions. One conclusion among them is this: questions are the offspring of our unquiet mind. If the mind becomes quiet, the question does not arise. All questions are born of our disturbed, agitated mind. Concerning God, concerning birth, concerning death—all questions are merely the progeny of an unquiet mind. Let the mind grow quiet, and they are dissolved. To become questionless is to become available to knowledge.

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 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…