The article deals with the problem of inexpressive, non-discursive "corporal" knowledge in the Far-Eastern aesthetical tradition, as opposed to the knowledge based on social-oriented text. The latter, during the last 2.5 thousand years existed as the main form of true knowledge about the Universe in the West. But in the aesthetical thought of the Romanticism there was an attempt to consider personal corporal aspect of mind as the base of the true knowledge, which draws together the two traditions.