Understanding is totally different from knowledge. Knowledge is borrowed, understanding is your own. Knowledge comes from without, understanding wells up from within. Knowledge is ugly, because it is secondhand. And knowledge can never become part of your being. It will remain alien, it will remain foreign, it cannot put down roots inside you.
Understanding grows out of you, it is your own flowering. It is authentically yours; so it has beauty, and it liberates.
Text: Osho
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Yet of course, the reason why you want to understand is a whole other issue.
Comments (4)
I believe that knowledge and understanding have a symbiotic relationship with one another. Perhaps we know with our minds and understand with our hearts.
Posted by Jeaux | March 1, 2010 6:38 AM
Posted on March 1, 2010 06:38
The difference between the two is
Posted by will | February 21, 2010 12:24 PM
Posted on February 21, 2010 12:24
this reminds me of a conversation i had last week, about how some people can be so very very clever (knowledge) whilst at the same time, pretty stupid (understanding)
and then, of course, theres also wisdom...
Posted by Lettuce | February 21, 2010 1:41 AM
Posted on February 21, 2010 01:41
Indeed !
Posted by Urspo | February 18, 2010 6:47 AM
Posted on February 18, 2010 06:47