Near a true master you pay such full, calm attention that your busy mind quiets on its own, so doubts have nothing to stick to.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, yesterday I saw you again after so many months -- all my questions disappeared by seeing and hearing you. Tell me what is really the secret of this happening -- because when I am on my own again, my mind starts doubting and wondering again and again. How can I make this little crazy mind of mine my friend? I have tried for so long now.
The effort that you are making is basically wrong; hence, the failure. And it is so obvious that just being here, all your questions disappeared, your doubts evaporated -- you were no more a mind, you became a meditation. You became a silence, a loving, peaceful serenity. And you had not done anything; neither have I done anything. Without my doing anything, without your doing anything, what has happened? Seeing me after a long time, listening to me, you became so totally attentive that there was no space for any questions to arise. You became so intensely aware that doubts died. Now, this can give you the clue: what you are doing alone on your own is a fighting; you are fighting with the mind. You will never win, because the mind can be overcome only by a total awareness, watchfulness, witnessing -- but not by fighting. Don't call it…Read the full discourse →
Beloved Osho, is it not true to say that because we can even formulate a question that we have an inkling somewhere of the answer -- even though we are not aware of it? It seems to me like a doctor looking at a patient: the fact that he asks the patient certain questions and not others indicates he has some idea of what the diagnosis -- and hence the answer -- is.
It is true. Whenever you ask a question, somewhere deep down you have some inkling of the answer, but it is in the darker parts of your consciousness. You yourself cannot pull it out and bring it to your consciousness. The question is in the consciousness; the answer is in the unconscious -- vague, a shadow, with no certainty, but the inkling is certainly there. The function of the master is exactly what Socrates has defined it as -- the master is only a midwife. He helps to bring everything that is hidden in you to consciousness. When your question disappears, that means your answer from the unconscious has been brought to the conscious. It has to be remembered that this is the distinction between a master and a teacher: a teacher will give you an answer, which will not bring your own answer from the unconscious. He will force…Read the full discourse →
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…Read the full discourse →
Beloved master, I feel like I know the answers. Why do I still allow the questions to become problems?
Savita, there are not answers, there is only the answer. And that answer is not of the mind, that answer cannot be of the mind. Mind is a multiplicity. Mind has answers and answers, but not the answer. That answer is a state of no-mind. It is not verbal. You can know it but you cannot reduce it to knowledge. You can know it, but you cannot say it. It is known in the innermost recesses of your being. It is light that simply illuminates your interiority. It is not an answer to any particular question. It is the end of all questioning, it refers to no question at all. It simply dissolves all the questions and a state is left without any question...that's the answer. Unless that is known, nothing is known. Hence, you may feel that you know the answers, but still questions will go on popping up,…Read the full discourse →
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…Read the full discourse →