Does the need to know, or the need to be perceived as knowing, interfere with kn

Question:no. for knowledge is thought, but knowingness itself is the state beyond thought. i prefer to call it wisdom, intuition, knowingness/beingness itself.
thought is never knowingness, thought is always belief and assumption. something you have heard or read, knowingness is the deep experience of your very nature, it can never be taken away from you, for you are it.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: no. for knowledge is thought, but knowingness itself is the state beyond thought. i prefer to call it wisdom, intuition, knowingness/beingness itself.
thought is never knowingness, thought is always belief and assumption. something you have heard or read, knowingness is the deep experience of your very nature, it can never be taken away from you, for you are it.

Yes, precisely. The ego will interrupt knowingness. Yogis try to circumvent this.

Huh?

yes of course

My dictionary shows 'knowingness' as the noun for knowing.

Surely the need to know is a stimulant, not an obstacle to knowingness. Also, the need to be perceived as having knowledge is a similar stimulus to learning and acquiring knowingness.

It does. Because any need...troubles the mind and interfere so much that, it also intercept the knowingness. It contradicts itself. The desire to know is against not knowing. It says it, clear. The more you search and desire to know or perceive as knowing and the more it goes away from you. You need emptiness of the mind, totally, then you feel and sense nothingness, then your third eye opens magically and you know, you sense, you see.
It's hard to explain, yet I think you understand what I'm meaning
Thanks.

I agree with Kankarnearnas's view. The thought that one is "knowing" something by nature creates ego awareness by creating a polarity between subject and object, or knower and the known. As yogis and Buddhist monks attest, this polarized consciousness can be unified--by stilling the mind-- so there is no longer a knower and a known but only knowing.

I hope this clarifies the issue for Laylah!

at the risk of sounding hypicritical. I think the need to be percieved as knowlegable does interfere with knowingness yes. If I may say, is it better to facilitate in the gaining of knowledge or just divulge the knowledge we have? if some one is seeking knowledge do we give what we know and end their search or do we encourage them to search further for them selves? On the other hand the need to know doesn`t have to interfere with knowingness as it depends on what we do with the knowledge we have.