How do minds grow?

Question:Big minds Vs. Small minds.

Big mind identifies with its process, is impersonal and participates universally. Big mind is unlimited possibilities, deeper understanding, forgiveness, acceptance, insight, connectedness, attention.

Small mind is self centred and focuses only on itself. It is compulsive, limited, reactive and mechanical. Small mind feeds on itself -- fear reacts to fear, judgment reacts to judgment, anger sparks more anger.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Big minds Vs. Small minds.

Big mind identifies with its process, is impersonal and participates universally. Big mind is unlimited possibilities, deeper understanding, forgiveness, acceptance, insight, connectedness, attention.

Small mind is self centred and focuses only on itself. It is compulsive, limited, reactive and mechanical. Small mind feeds on itself -- fear reacts to fear, judgment reacts to judgment, anger sparks more anger.

Thank you for your comments!

The mind can "grow up, in knowing where its place is, and in that, it can be used for great things on higher levels as well", .....if it serves the master. The mind is a servant and in that should not make decisions by itself, but receive guidance and if the master takes over, the mind can grow in its quality of activity or serving higher levels of realities instead of staying only on the low level of its own kind.
A small mind made itself to the master, but as it is not fitted to fulfill the place of the master but feeds on itself and in that cannot grow above its own limitation as for that it needs the guidance and direction and wisdom of the master, all what comes from the small mind is base. A tool stays a tool, but it can be used for great things. To grow it needs to subordinate itself to the master.

How wonderful and peaceful must it be if the master guides the tool. Then there is no more fear. Fear is there as the small mind knows it needs the master, but still it fights to keep its wrong position, a position which is not suitable for it.

Open minds grow.

experience

Well, apparently, and, uh, this is on the QT, Bainbridge told me that when the man-panda kisses the lady-panda, they invent new baby-pandas. And everybody comes from all over and gives us money.

I second EGO's Words!!

but also add...and so do closed minds.. just not as efficiently!!

Minds grow by using them. If you use it positively, it will grow in an open positive way. If you use it negatively, it will grow in a closed negative way.

Inasmuch as you do not reify "big mind," you are completely correct, imo, insofar as Plotinus' One Mind Soul-individuation is "big mindedness."

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,
http://www.megagenius.com
"Kundalini West," Ann Ree Colton,
http://www.heartmath.org
http://www.quantumbrain.org
http://noosphere.princeton.edu
http://www.lucidity.com
http://www.divinecosmos.com
http://www.dreamhealer.com
http://www.carolbowman.com
http://www.nderf.org
offer some "Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" help.

To discover reality using their mind, not blindly accepting popular versions of reality without examining the premises very carefully.
Using reason and logic instead of faith as the epistemological method.

Each of us needs both. Without ID there is not Ego. We need to react sometimes. We need to feel pain and decide things quickly. When the house is on fire I will not sit down in it and think about the unlimited possibilities.

Without universal principle; contemplation and application we cannot grow beyond the given.

as we grow up.

Minds grow by concept-formation...
Man's sense organs function automatically; man's brain integrates his sense data into percepts automatically; but the process of integrating percepts into concepts—the process of abstraction and of conceptformation—is not automatic." "The Objectivist Ethics," The Virtue of Selfishness, 20

...NOT by an "open mind."
"That term is an anti-concept: it is usually taken to mean an objective, unbiased approach to ideas, but it is used as a call for perpetual skepticism, for holding no firm convictions and granting plausibility to anything. A "closed mind" is usually taken to mean the attitude of a man impervious to ideas, arguments, facts and logic, who clings stubbornly to some mixture of unwarranted assumptions, fashionable catch phrases, tribal prejudices—and emotions. But this is not a "closed" mind, it is a passive one. It is a mind that has dispensed with (or never acquired) the practice of thinking or judging, and feels threatened by any request to consider anything.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy require is not an "open mind," but an active mind—a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them critically." "Philosophical Detection," Philosophy: Who Needs It, 21.