For decades studies have tried to unravel the mysteries of the human mind. Psychology has come very close to opening it up, but never has it been able to completely unravel it. It might have found theories and understandings for the mind but it has never been able to understand the complexity of its working. Even though Buddha’s was a great spiritual leader but his teachings I feel are not appropriate to completely uncover the human mind. This I say is because his studies mainly concentrate on the human mind on two diverse extremes and that are pain and pleasure. His teachings tell us how to deal with grief and pain and how to control ourselves in pleasure but what I feel is that there is always a state that goes mid way. A feeling that is normative a person when is in equilibrium. A situation that gives him/her neither pain nor pleasure. It is here that the studies should be carried out, when the human stands on level ground. Buddha tries to answer all questions by spiritual attainment, but once someone has attained that level his mind becomes so in his control that the study becomes actually not applicable. A control mind does become a good study but not the correct answer to everything. Even though his teachings are subjective but still connections can be made. His theory on self seems correct but the example used of binge eating wasn’t able to do justice. Here also it seems that everything revolves around pain and pleasure which to me is not accurate. What I understood was that life is like a cycle of pain and pleasure from which u can only free your self is when one attains spiritual guidance. Spiritual guidance might be one branch to a complete tree on control but it certainly is not its root.
I believe that the human mind is a very vast subject. An attempt to try answering it with just one view or teaching is not appropriate. Its complexities, controls, questions and diversities can not be answered subjectively and even one subject only is not good enough to answer it all.
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