“what is the difference between knowledge and knowing..?  knowledge is a theory, knowing is an experience. knowing means you open your eyes and you see; knowledge means somebody else has opened his eyes and he has seen and he talks about it, and you simply go on gathering that information... knowing is authentically your experience; knowledge is pseudo. knowledge is a curse, a calamity, a cancer.

it is through knowledge that man becomes divided from the whole - knowledge creates the distance. you come across a wild flower in the mountains and you don’t know what it is; your mind has nothing to say about it, the mind is silent. you look at the flower, you see the flower, but no knowledge arises in you - there is wonder, there is mystery. the flower is there, you are there. through wonder you are not separate, you are bridged. but if you know that this is a rose or marigold or something else, that very knowledge disconnects you. the flower is there, you are here, but there is no bridge - you “know”. knowledge creates distance.

the more you know, the bigger the distance; the less you know, the lesser the distance. and if you are in a moment of not knowing, there is no distance; you are bridged.

you fall in love with a woman or a man - the day you fall in love there is no distance. there is only wonder, a thrill, an excitement, an ecstasy - but no knowledge. you don’t know who this woman is. without knowledge there is nothing to divide you; hence the beauty of this first moments of love. once you have lived with the woman - only for twenty-four hours - knowledge has arisen. now you have some ideas about the woman; you know who she is, there is an image. twenty-four hours have created a past; those twenty-four hours have left marks on the mind. you look at the same woman, there is no longer the same mystery. you are coming down the hill, that peak is lost.

to understand this is to understand much. to understand that knowledge divides, knowledge creates distance is to understand the very secrete of meditation.

meditation is a state of not knowing. meditation is pure space, undisturbed by knowledge. yes, the biblical story is true - that man has fallen through knowledge, by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge...

that biblical parable has immense insight. why has man fallen through knowledge? because knowledge creates distance, because knowledge creates “I and thou”, because knowledge creates subject and object, the knower and the known, the observer and the observed. knowledge is basically schizophrenic; it creates a split and then there is no way to bridge.”

osho in  “intuition: knowing beyond logic”