Emotions Talks
Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is no scientific consensus on a definition. Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity.
Research on emotion has increased over the past two decades, with many fields contributing, including psychology, medicine, history, sociology of emotions, and computer science. The numerous attempts to explain the origin, function, and other aspects of emotions have fostered intense research on this topic. Theorizing about the evolutionary origin and possible purpose of emotion dates back to Charles Darwin. Current areas of research include the neuroscience of emotion, using tools like PET and fMRI scans to study the affective picture processes in the brain.
From a mechanistic perspective, emotions can be defined as "a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity." Emotions are complex, involving multiple different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior. At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instrumental behavior, psychophysiologists with physiological changes, and so on. More recently, emotion has been said to consist of all the components. The different components of emotion are categorized somewhat differently depending on the academic discipline. In psychology and philosophy, emotion typically includes a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. A similar multi-componential description of emotion is found in sociology. For example, Peggy Thoits described emotions as involving physiological components, cultural or emotional labels (anger, surprise, etc.), expressive body actions, and the appraisal of situations and contexts. Cognitive processes, like reasoning and decision-making, are often regarded as separate from emotional processes, making a division between "thinking" and "feeling". However, not all theories of emotion regard this separation as valid.
Nowadays, most research into emotions in the clinical and well-being context focuses on emotion dynamics in daily life, predominantly the intensity of specific emotions and their variability, instability, inertia, and differentiation, as well as whether and how emotions augment or blunt each other over time and differences in these dynamics between people and along the lifespan.
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OLD - IgnoranceSerial: SF-05131A SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture B -... Giving-and-Taking, Attachment, Freedom, training, Hindrances, Chanting, Evil,... |
Sep 08 1967 Tassajara |
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On Nanshin-Ken, Sokatsu-ShakuSerial: SF-01137A Tape 2 copy 1 Priest, Lay, Zendo, Ceremony, Bowing, Transmission, Emotions, Doubt, Peace |
Feb 22 1966 Kyoto |
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OLD - Do You Have Some Questions?Serial: 65-07-30-D Sesshin Lecture Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Transmission, Emotions, training, Happiness, Truth,... |
Jul 30 1965 D Sokoji |
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Do You Have Some Questions?Serial: SF-05107A Tape 7 Summer 1965 Sesshin: Side 1 Friday evening lecture (transcribed) [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR] Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Transmission, training, Emotions, Buddha Nature,... |
Jul 30 1965 D Sokoji |
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OLD - Some More QuestionsSerial: 65-07-29-C Sesshin, Lecture C Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Emotions, Buddha Nature, Passions, Happiness, Religion... |
Jul 29 1965 C Sokoji |
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OLD - QuestionsSerial: 65-07-29-B Sesshin Lecture, Lecture B Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Demons, Anger, Culture,... |
Jul 29 1965 B Sokoji |
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Some More QuestionsSerial: SF-05104A Tape 5 Summer sesshin 1965 Thursday July 29th Side 1 - 6pm lecture; Continues on Side 2 [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR] Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Precepts, Emotions, Buddha Nature, Passions, training,... |
Jul 29 1965 C Sokoji |
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OLD - QuestionsSerial: 65-07-28-D Sesshin Lecture, Lecture D Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Suffering, Emotions, Faith, Truth, Religion, Culture,... |
Jul 28 1965 D Sokoji |
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QuestionsSerial: SF-05126E Tape 3 Summer Sesshin July 1965 - Wednesday July 28 1965 Tape 3 side 2 Wed July 28th 6pm lecture - transcribed; copied June 30 1973; SR001 Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Four Noble Truths, Emotions, Faith, Passions, Delusion... |
Jul 28 1965 D Sokoji |
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Forgotten the Value of ReligionSerial: SF-05101A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #5, by Shundo David Haye ===== The oldest recordings of Suzuki Roshi made at Sokoji, the home of the San Francisco Zen Center at the... Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Inmost Nature, Religion, Don't Know Mind, Buddha... |
Jul 27 1965 1:00pm Sokoji |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00208 Mill Valley, American, Emotions, Politics, Priest |
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YYYY.02.02-serial.00011 Religion, Emotions, Passions, Culture, Buddha Nature, soto, training, confusion, Vows... |
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YYYY.02.01-serial.00013 Buddha Nature, Attachment, Samadhi, Culture, Echo, Silence, Emotions, Offering... |
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YYYY.02.01-serial.00014 Concentration, Emotions, Culture, Buddha Nature, causation, training |
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YYYY.01.14-serial.00042 Subject-and-Object, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Diversity, Repentance,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00188, Side B Doubt, Practice Period, Emotions, Interview, War, Enemies, Describe, Conversation,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00243 Hate, Duality, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Emotions, Samadhi, Attachment,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00522 War, Daily Life, Intuition, American, Doubt, Peace, Emotions |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00523 Emotions, Precepts, Funeral, Interview, Lineage, Fasting, American, Addiction,... |
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Deep Relaxation - 3 Touchings of the EarthSerial: SF-04823 Commercially Produced cassette: Sounds True - - Pain, Love and Happiness with Thich Nhat Hanh - September 1-6 1997 Sponsored by the Community of Mindful Living Peace, Buddha Nature, Anger, Chanting, Precepts, Happiness, Emotions, Faith |
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Way-Seeking Mind TalksSerial: SF-03089D Student talks, should not be published Practice Period, Tassajara, Religion, Interview, Separation, Emotions, Freedom... |
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Tassajara |
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Unknown Date, Serial 01951 confusion, Duality, Karma, Balance, Samsara, realization, Letting Go, Separation, Ego... |
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Transformation of Consciousness Anger, Emotions, Attachment, Ego, Enemies, Freedom, Intimacy, First Principle, New... |
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Where Many Rivers Meet Silence, Faith, Darkness and Light, Vows, Right Speech, Passions, Bodhisattva Vow,... |
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Worldly Religions: The Lotus SutraSerial: SF-03047 #25 Echo, resistance, Ego, Evil, Emotions, Hate, Equanimity, Continuous, Politics,... |
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Transformation of Consciousness Anger, Attachment, training, Peace, Teacher-and-Student, Intimacy, Emotions, Birth-... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 01041 Humility, Emotions, Silence |
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City Center |
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NgondroSerial: SF-01858 Class 4 - Teacher/Student Teacher-and-Student, Discrimination, Obstacles, Commitment, confusion, Buddha Nature... |
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First Shuso LectureSerial: SF-04044 #shuso-talk Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Offering, Balance, Emotions, Ceremony |
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Ngondro Liberation, Happiness, Funeral, Politics, Emotions, training |
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Lion's RoarSerial: SF-01904 Side A - end Lion's Roar; Side B - Q&A Emotions, Anger, Lineage, Liberation, Buddha Nature, confusion, realization, Subject-... |
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Religion and Sexuality Religion, resistance, Passions, Posture, Doubt, Demons, Priest, Emotions, Hate,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 01005Serial: SF-01005B #clarify-speaker zen meditation, Echo, Concentration, Zazen, Oneness, Happiness, Anger, Emotions... |
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Dzögchen RetreatSerial: SF-01936 Sunday morning teaching continued - TSOK Emotions, realization, New Year, Karma, Attachment, Evil, confusion, Politics,... |
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Time and Future Observe, Letting Go, Happiness, Suzuki Roshi, Doubt, Ceremony, Fox, Samsara, Ego,... |
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The Philosophy of NatureSerial: SF-03048B Man's Place in Nature Light-and-Darkness, Observe, Describe, Emotions, Samadhi, Nirvana, Ego, Passions, Lay... |
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The Philosophy of NatureSerial: SF-03048A Importance of Space Sixth Patriarch, Silence, Interdependence, Heart Sutra, Emotions, Emptiness, Birth-... |
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The Future of Politics confusion, Politics, Faith, Ceremony, Balance, Religion, Evil, Lay, Emotions... |
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Ghosts Religion, Bell, Evil, Lay, Priest, Emotions, Sanctuary, realization |
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Reflecting the Mirror Mill Valley, Observe, Enemies, Evil, Emotions, Freedom, realization, Peace |
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Pursuit of PleasureSerial: SF-03046A #26 Ego, Emotions, Obstacles, Patience, Balance, Bell, Describe |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00366 Precepts, Buddha Nature, Fifth Precept, Don't Know Mind, Greed, Lay, Emotions,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00367 Intuition, Impermanence, Intention, Passions, Compassion, Consciousness, American,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00370 Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Emotions, Attachment, Constancy, Demons,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00380 Balance, Vows, Building, American, Patience, Instruction, Culture, Emotions,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00388 Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Letting Go, Attachment, Echo, Emotions,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00562Serial: NC-00562 Cassian Institute Mindfulness, Emotions, Concentration, Oneness, Letting Go |
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Abiding in God's PresenceSerial: NC-01224 2000s OSB Cam, Commitment, Enthusiasm, Intimacy, Emotions, Money |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00834Serial: NC-00834 1980s OSB Cam, Echo, War, Koan, Emotions, Emptiness |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00842Serial: NC-00842 Cassian Conference OSB Cam, Anger, Emotions, Patience, Conversation, Demons |
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