No one filters questions; Osho reads them all, answers a few to cover many, and if you listen without needing your name, you’ll hear your answer—real clarity comes from living, not asking.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved master, why don't you answer my questions? Is there a certain selection before they reach you? If so, then these are the wrong persons at the right place, because they choose the stupid ones instead of mine, which have some quality. It's not only an ego-satisfaction-comparison state.
It is a natural and normal phenomenon that the questions that others ask will look, to you, stupid. And the questions that you are asking will look, to you, very intelligent, but to others they will look stupid, utterly stupid. What makes it valuable is your ego. The moment your ego is not there, suddenly the question loses all significance. But I repeat again that all questions are stupid, because those who have attained to wisdom don't ask any questions at all. It is not that they have found the answers. On the contrary, they have lost, together, all questions, all answers. They remain together, they go together. When you are without questions and without answers, your innocence knows the deepest mysteries, the secrets, without making it knowledge. It tastes it, it becomes your blood, your bones, your marrow. It becomes your very being, your dance, but not an answer…
Osho, questions arise—and for many of them the answers also come. What is all this?
Girls want people to tell them they are beautiful. A handful of fools to say it—that’s all it takes—and you’ll always find such fools loitering on the seafront; no matter what she looks like—even if she resembles Kali of Calcutta, motherly and forbidding—some fool will still exclaim, “Ah, what beauty!” It feels good when someone says, “You are intelligent!” You gather your self-image from others’ borrowed opinions. You ask their questions and paste on their answers. You call this your knowledge. All of it stale and borrowed... No—no one else can give you knowledge. No one else can answer your questions. The one who truly wishes you well, who truly wants you to become a flame of life, will tell you: the answer to every one of your questions is within you. Therefore the way is to sit silently and go inward. And a moment comes, as you keep finding…
Beloved Osho, what sense do all the questions have? In many of them arising in me I can see my ego at work. Some I can answer myself, and many have been asked before.
Yashen, don't you see the same ego in this question? Don't you know the answer to this question? Don't you know that this type of question has been asked many times before? Then why are you asking the question? First, you think that in all the questions that arise in you, your ego is involved -- but do you think that by not asking them your ego will disappear? If your ego is involved, then ask them so I can hammer your ego. You say, "Many questions arise and I find that I know the answer already" -- but how do you know that your answers are right? Ask them, so that you can know whether your answers are right or not. You say many questions arise in you but they have been asked many times before. Does that help you? Many people have loved before -- are you going…
Beloved Osho, I am having questions coming to me. I write them down and read them over. Meditating again, I often get the answer, and coincidentally, many times the same question is read out to you in the discourse or at the video that night. Even if it is from someone else, I feel that it is my question, and I feel as if I am being answered. Beloved master, can you please comment?
And the man started throwing his creatures onto him, and the psychiatrist said, "Stop! Don't throw those creatures on me! What kind of fellow are you? Have you come here for treatment or have you come here to make me sick also? What a disgusting fellow!" He said, "Now you see, it is not an idea." He said, "I do understand, it is not an idea. I can see them; it seems my third eye is also opening! You just don't come again. You can try another psychiatrist; he lives just opposite me. He is my enemy, and when I find cases like you, I send them to him. But you forgive me -- this is your fee, you take it back. But don't drop your creatures here! Take them to the other psychiatrist -- that is the office -- every day. And if you want something, I will pay…
Beloved Osho, the other night you told the story of the buddha and his disciple, ananda. Ananda had thought that the buddha had given contradictory answers concerning the existence of god to three different questioners. When challenged on this by ananda, the buddha had retorted, "the answers were not for you. Why do you listen to answers not intended for you!" beloved Osho, when we sit with you, we listen to many answers to questions we have not asked. How should we listen?
This advice was given by the so-called wise people. To me they are not wise, they are other-wise! It was because of their advice that he had to renounce the kingdom one day, because for twenty-nine years he was kept in such a controlled atmosphere -- not a dead leaf, not a withering flower -- that when he came to know... it was such a great shock. He was going to participate in the youth festival; he had to inaugurate it. Roads were closed; whenever he had to pass, the roads were always closed. Traffic was stopped, nobody could pass. People had to keep their doors closed -- he should not see anybody who is ugly. But that day when he was going to inaugurate.... The story is beautiful. The masters who have died were watching, and they saw that a great master was being prevented. Something had to be…