What do you think open mindedness is
do you dismiss alternatives or consider them and find it worthy to question your theories through various means?
Open mindedness
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
Re: Open mindedness
Hi Cittasanto,
I think open mindness is keeping an open mind to other things besides our belief.It's not that we go just accepting everything.But atleast we can consider testing these various different theories.
I think open mindness is keeping an open mind to other things besides our belief.It's not that we go just accepting everything.But atleast we can consider testing these various different theories.
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Re: Open mindedness
Well, I can't watch that video in my country due to copyright protection.
I think open mindedness is to accept everything that is going on in mind, without resisting or pushing anything away.
These processes in mind are just dependent arisen and impersonal, but if we start to take them personal and clinging starts, closed mind already happens. My two cents.
Regards :-)
I think open mindedness is to accept everything that is going on in mind, without resisting or pushing anything away.
These processes in mind are just dependent arisen and impersonal, but if we start to take them personal and clinging starts, closed mind already happens. My two cents.
Regards :-)
Re: Open mindedness
Open mindedness is often advocated by those who want to put forward their beliefs, i.e. as a means of persuasion.
Not believing anything while accepting that others believe regardless of what they believe is perfect open mind. Such an open mind may be the result of mindfulness.
Not believing anything while accepting that others believe regardless of what they believe is perfect open mind. Such an open mind may be the result of mindfulness.
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Thank you for sharing what you believe.ground wrote:Open mindedness is often advocated by those who want to put forward their beliefs, i.e. as a means of persuasion.
Not believing anything while accepting that others believe regardless of what they believe is perfect open mind. Such an open mind may be the result of mindfulness.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Open mindedness
You cannot know whether there is belief. All you see is just words. If there would be belief then the words would not be the belief but just a means of expression. Meaning of words arises depending on eye contacting words qua forms.tiltbillings wrote:Thank you for sharing what you believe.ground wrote:Open mindedness is often advocated by those who want to put forward their beliefs, i.e. as a means of persuasion.
Not believing anything while accepting that others believe regardless of what they believe is perfect open mind. Such an open mind may be the result of mindfulness.
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Said Ground, expressing his belief. Thank you for sharing your expression of belief.ground wrote:You cannot know whether there is belief. All you see is just words. If there would be belief then the words would not be the belief but just a means of expression. Meaning of words arises depending on eye contacting words qua forms.tiltbillings wrote:Thank you for sharing what you believe.ground wrote:Open mindedness is often advocated by those who want to put forward their beliefs, i.e. as a means of persuasion.
Not believing anything while accepting that others believe regardless of what they believe is perfect open mind. Such an open mind may be the result of mindfulness.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Open mindedness
Remember: You cannot know.tiltbillings wrote:Said Ground, expressing his belief. Thank you for sharing your expression of belief.ground wrote:You cannot know whether there is belief. All you see is just words. If there would be belief then the words would not be the belief but just a means of expression. Meaning of words arises depending on eye contacting words qua forms.tiltbillings wrote:Thank you for sharing what you believe.
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Thank you, again, for sharing your belief.ground wrote: Remember: You cannot know.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Re: Open mindedness
unfortunate, it is an interesting video. (watch this space I'll mirror it for a short time.mirco wrote:Well, I can't watch that video in my country due to copyright protection.
I think open mindedness is to accept everything that is going on in mind, without resisting or pushing anything away.
These processes in mind are just dependent arisen and impersonal, but if we start to take them personal and clinging starts, closed mind already happens. My two cents.
Regards
If the Buddha didn't resist... (fourth Noble truth) and wasn't open to a life without Dukkha (third noble truth) the extent he saw dukkha being present (the second noble truth) would not of been undermined and uprooted.
these four Noble Truths are to some degree an expression of open mindedness. a receptivity to new ideas (what has not been heard before) and seeing whether they fit reality. not necessarily an acceptance of anything, but an understanding of everything.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Re: Open mindedness
I don't take my opinions as seriously as I used to, I mean they are just opinions and it's OK not to know the answers.Cittasanto wrote:What do you think open mindedness is
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porpoise wrote:I don't take my opinions as seriously as I used to, I mean they are just opinions and it's OK not to know the answers.Cittasanto wrote:What do you think open mindedness is
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
Re: Open mindedness
Hi cittasanta
So a big-mind may be a better term, in accord with the big elephant footprint.
I think this is a perfect example of open mindedness by Ven. Sariputta:Cittasanto wrote:What do you think open mindedness is
do you dismiss alternatives or consider them and find it worthy to question your theories through various means?
But, as others suggested, 'open' mind can be ambiguous, as to what is to be dismissed and what is acceptable."Friends, just as the footprints of all legged animals are encompassed by the footprint of the elephant, and the elephant's footprint is reckoned the foremost among them in terms of size; in the same way, all skillful qualities are gathered under the four noble truths. Under which four?
Under the noble truth of stress,
under the noble truth of the origination of stress,
under the noble truth of the cessation of stress,
and under the noble truth of the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress. - MN 28
So a big-mind may be a better term, in accord with the big elephant footprint.
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Re: Open mindedness
For me an open mind is less caught up in grasping and rejecting views, therefore less opinionated and more open to possibilites.nibbuti wrote:But, as others suggested, 'open' mind can be ambiguous, as to what is to be dismissed and what is acceptable.
Possibly.
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Re: Open mindedness
Possibly. But some views are necessary in conventional life to plan ahead and not starve. The Buddha taught wise view rather than no view.porpoise wrote:For me an open mind is less caught up in grasping and rejecting views, therefore less opinionated and more open to possibilites.
Possibly.