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Meditation does not give the answer but it destroys the question.

Meditation is a journey into the very being of consciousness, where questions and answers lose their significance. When Osho says, “Meditation does not give the answer but it destroys the question,” he is pointing toward a state of no-mind, a state of pure awareness.

In our everyday lives, we are besieged by questions. “What should I do?” “How should I live?” “Why is this happening to me?” These are the expressions of the turmoil that resides within the disturbed waters of a restless mind. But as you enter meditation, as you sink deeper into silence, the incessant chatter begins to fade away. The questions that seemed so urgent, so pressing, dissolve into the vast ocean of your inner silence.

You see, questions assume a problem that needs solving, a lack to be filled, a curiosity to be satiated. However, when you meditate, you do not move with the intention of solving a puzzle or fixing something broken. You move to simply be. In being, the fragmented self, which is the originator of these questions, ceases to be your primary experience. Instead, you touch the space that is complete in itself, which does not know the dichotomy of questions and answers because it is whole, united, and indivisible.

In that sacred wholeness, questions lose their grip. They disintegrate not because an answer has been found, but because they are recognised as products of the mind which are no longer relevant in your state of consciousness. You come to realise that the only question worth asking is one that leads you to this silence, this dissolution, and once there, the question too falls away.

If you are seeking answers through meditation, you are still caught in the mind’s web. Instead, watch the mind, watch the questions arise and fall without getting attached or repulsed. Eventually, meditation will bring you to a place where the need for questions, the need for answers, and even the need for silence will all evaporate, leaving only the vastness of being.

Let meditation be the fire in which the questions burn away, and what remains is your true nature, pure consciousness, beyond the need for intellectual solutions or emotional consolations.