what is the mind?

Answer 1

Mind is the source of all our thoughts and emotions. It is different from our physical brain which processes our thoughts and perceptions. In other words, mind is that part of our metaphysical entity which makes us think in a particular fashion and feel too in a particular fashion. In other words, every mind has a unique personality. The personality of our mind is partly moulded by the inclinations of our soul and partly by the experiences that we have had to date.

Answer 2

The concept of "what is mind” still remains controversial and to some impossible to define within the limitations of language. Consider this alternative, the mind is an entity distinct from the brain. The material brain function is mechanistical and the mind is an entity with different characteristics.

The essence of a human being can only be realized within the balance of the two.

All aspects of the mind or consciousness are more than the behavior of neuronal cells. As is the existence of God is more than the emotional centers of the brain satisfying a psychological need. The mind is a functional entity devoid of metaphysical or religious implications relating to the existence of a brain or to the reception of sensory inputs explaining the mind as being the activity of large sets of neural cells. The relationship between the mind and brain could be defined as two separate consciousnesses, each having its own area of shared specialization. This could begin to explain the most complex processes in human behavior and experience (consciousness and thought).

Answer 3

Mind , in my perception, is the screen on which the worldly perceptions of the individual are continuously projected. The 5 sense organs are constantly throwing up information and the mind collates these information and puts thenm on the mind board for us to see and act.

Answer 4

The source of all Mind is the Overmind, a sort of Divine or Cosmic Mind, perhaps in part equivalent to the Nous of Plotinus, the Atzilut of Kabbalah etc (although these can also refer to distinct hypostases). From this emanate various grades of spiritual mind.

Grades of Being - the the various levels of mind
Overmind
Intuition
Illumined Mind
Higher Mind
Mental Mind
Vital Mind
Physical Mind

Aspects of Mind
the characteristics of the various levels of Mind

Higher Mind is one of the planes of the spiritual mind, the first and lowest of them; it is above the normal mental level. Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrttis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism, etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within. Larger mind is a general term to cover the realms of mind which become our field whether by going within or widening into the cosmic consci ousness. The true mental being is not the same as the inner mental - true mental, true vital, true physical being means the Purusha of that level freed from the error and ignorant thought and will of the lower Prakriti and directly open to the knowledge and guidance above.

The mind proper is divided into three parts - thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind - the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give). The word "physical mind" is rather ambiguous, because it can mean this externalising Mind and the mental in the physical taken together. Vital Mind proper is a sort of a mediator between vital emotion, desire, impulsion, etc, and the mental proper. It expresses the desires, feelings, emotions, passions, ambitions, possessive and active tendencies of the vital and throws them into mental forms (the pure imaginations or dreams of greatness, happiness, etc, in which men indulge are one peculiar form of the vital-mind activity). There is still a lower stage of the mental in the vital which merely expresses the vital stuff without subjecting it to any play of intel ligence. It is through this mental vital that the vital passions, impulses, de sires rise up and get into the Buddhi and either cloud or distort it. As the vital Mind is limited by the vital view and feeling of things (while the dynamic Intelligence is not, for it acts by the idea and reason), so the mind in the physical or mental physical is limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experi ences brought by the contacts of outward life and things, and does not go beyond that (though it can do that much very cleverly), unlike the externalising mind which deals with them more from the reason and its higher intelligence. But in practice these two usually get mixed together. The mechanical mind is a much lower action of the mental physical which, left to itself, would only repeat customary ideas and record the natural reflexes of the physical consciousness to the contacts of outward life and things.

Answer 5

Mind is the logical form of man's thoughts and feelings.

It is like a virtual part of the human which is made up of his thoughts and his experience so far. The facts, beliefs, borrowed information about everything is termed as mind.

Answer 6

There is no mind. The brain is part of the physical body and all thoughts, emotions, etc, are products of purely physical processes. Don't try and separate mind/spirit/soul from body. It never ends up coherent.

Answer 7

The mind is the living essence of the brain and the nervous system. It's what we label those two things as they work together.

Answer 8

mind is very big hard disk and R.A.M. OF OUR BODY IF IT IS NOT IN OUR MIND SO WE R NOT COMPLETE .
Mind is the source of all our thoughts and emotions. It is different from our physical brain which processes our thoughts and perceptions. In other words, mind is that part of our metaphysical entity which makes us think in a particular fashion and feel too in a particular fashion. In other words, every mind has a unique personality. The personality of our mind is partly moulded by the inclinations of our soul and partly by the experiences that we have had to date.

Answer 9

Senses--> Mind--> Intellect-->Soul
Like,
Supporters--> Lawyers-->Judge -->The Convict

Answer 10

Mind is a word used to describe the abilities of comprehension, conceptualization, use of language, and to learn from our mistakes.

It has recently been demonstrated that no trace of mind is required to be president of the U.S.