Psychological Perspective of Buddhist Motivation

Abstract

Psychology, as it is usually understood is the study of the mind in its different perspectives and functions. Nowadays highly developed neurology is making possible the objective study of many psychological factors/phenomena. Investigation of psychological phenomena in the discourses of Buddha offers noteworthy perceptions into the nature of consciousness and the psychology of human behaviour. Buddhism has developed the extraordinarily shrewd and penetrating analysis of human nature and the human condition on which its direction towards liberation is based. Buddhist psychology of motivation is right away concerned with the issues that lead to human turmoil, tension, disquiet, and suffering in general. The psychological investigation found in the treatises of the Buddha, primarily concerning motivation, is deeply surrounded by the desire to disclose the roots of unrest and to describe a positive path towards happiness. Buddha’s philosophy of motivation is grounded on certain key issues shared by all human beings and is generally worried about the nature of human discontent and suffering (dukkha) and how to drive out it.