Thank you for enlightening me!
BUT, I do agree with them that conquering your mind is like moving from driving an automatic car to driving a stick (ie. you can have more control over your body, like controlling pain)
Like this quote by Lao Tze: (Tse? Tsu? whichever it is...)
"He who can control others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."