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by Roy Posner and MSS

 

A Closed Mind, Limitations of Mind to the Value of Information
-A closed mind refuses to benefit by the known information. A cloistered life is impervious to comforts open to all. In these days that can very well be described as modern, five of a family lost sight because they had no idea that cataracts could be cured by a simple operation.

Their belief in karma made them hide their shame. This is an age of information. To know how much the concerned people miss because of ignorance created by circumstances is amazing. Information is of value.

-One is unable to know essential information because when the mind travels on one line, it loses the habit of seeing around. It is common knowledge that what one system of medicine fails to cure, another system cures. The mind used to one system is incapable of thinking of another system. For most of our affairs, we go by what we know and do not seek professional help.

-The advent of the web and Internet has widened the scope of information infinitely. Still, the use [to discover necessary information in life] is only minimal. (MSS)

Opinions and Closedmindedness
To understand the reality of an open mind, it will be helpful to know in real terms what a closed mind is. It is best understood by knowing the process of opinion formation. The Mother says opinions look like needles in the subtle plane. Obviously opinion is ours, not necessarily the fact of the situation. There is a report about a theft. It comes to us. As we hear of it, our past experience receives the facts - assuming they are correct facts - and arrives at a conclusion. That becomes our opinion. Our opinion of an event reported to us is our version of it in the light of past experience, valid to us only. To know the facts of the situation, one needs to shed that opinion. He who desires an open mind must be able to prevent opinion formation. He who forms an opinion prejudges the event. It becomes a prejudice. To insist on that prejudice is to have a closed mind. (MSS)

On Open-mindedness
The concept of open mind as against closed mind as a mental attitude is what we know well. It is to discount our personal opinion and be eager to know from another. (MSS)

On a Closed Mind
 Mind seeing only one side is a closed mind. Seeing both sides, it becomes an open mind. (MSS)

Mind's Prejudice
Mind, in approaching an issue, understands its own prejudices about that issue, not the issue at all. (MSS)

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We do feel that we know the final truth of things when we act. An open mind does not exist. (MSS)

Narrow-mindedness, Close-mindedness, Intolerance in Pride and Prejudice

-Lady Catherine (all)

-Mary in a way

-Darcy a bit (intolerant)

Opening the Locked Box
 Each of us have perhaps half a dozen cherished beliefs we subscribe it. It can be about life overall, or in a given field like economics. One well known financial expert who has a syndicated radio show believed in low interest rates by the Federal Reserve, the anathema of taxes, and safe, incremental investment. Some seemed true, others decidedly not so. We each then advocate those views unchanged throughout our lives. In essence, we take those half dozen positions, opinions, and put them in a box that we then lock tightly. We then subscribe to none others. As a result, our thoughts, opinions, and attitudes are fixed and false. In addition, we never venture to open the box and consider their veracity - i.e. by excluding the wanting ones, or adding new ones of truth.

The truly Rational Man however operates much differently. Logic dictates that he continually examines his positions and points of view. He continually opens that box and lets in the light of day; or rather the light of truth. He does not keep that box shut for a lifetime, as every one of us do, refusing to absorb new knowledge and insight.

By considering its contents, that man fulfills his life's obligation to grow as an individual -- giving his soul nourishment in its evolutionary ascent. When we keep the box locked, we waste the precious life that has been given us. On the outside, we live lives of error, falsehoods, and evil. Inside the box, truth calls out for its release, yearning for the Light.

Knowing Mind's Closedmindedness is an Open Mind
To know that one's mind is closed -- all minds are closed -- is the sign of an open mind. To be able to see how it got closed and how it now remains closed is certainly a mental perception humanity does not have now. (MSS)

Open-mindedness
When ego is shed, mind becomes open-minded.  Open-mindedness is purity of mind. (MSS)

Close-Mindedness
Lack of openness is a closed mind.

Example of a Closed Mind
The affluent intellectual looks down on prayers for wedding, jobs and promotion, little realising that his own mind is cast in the same mould. He is closed by a derisive attitude. By realising that he too is like that, his closed mind will open. (MSS)

Punishment to the Closed Mind through the Physical
A closed mind opens in the body and invites the enemy to teach through punishment. (MSS)

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Man worships at the shrine of his own Ignorance.

An Open vs. a Rational Mind
An open mind is good. A rational mind is great. (MSS)

Also See Ignorance in the Individual Human

 

Not Listening to Others

On Not Accepting the Good Advise of Others
 -Man does not listen to the good advise of others. He only absorbs the truth when he discovers it on his own, which means delay -- assuming he ever comes upon it in the first place.

-From a deeper consciousness one is always vigilant of the truth, especially if it comes from others, as one is in  perpetual state of harmony with them.

 

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Narrow-Mindedness that is 'Taste of Ignorance'

It never fails to amaze how narrow-minded people are, expressed readily through our thoughts and opinions. We intensely believe one thing, ignoring other facts, possibilities, realities. It is, as the Indian sage said, the "Taste of Ignorance" that is so scrumptious to our mental and emotional pallet. (2009-2011 Q1)

 

 

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