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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November 16th, 1988, Serial No. 01512 Monkey Mind, Posture, Hindrances, Continuous, Judgement, Instruction, Emotions, Lay,... |
Nov 16 1988 |
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Emptiness and Compassion Retreat Serial 00027 Breath, Buddha Nature, Composure, Daily Life, Nirvana, Bell, Gratitude, Observe,... |
Nov 13 1988 Tape 3 |
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Emptiness and Compassion: Retreat Serial 00026 Buddha Nature, Commitment, Lineage, Demons, Beginners, Nirvana, Equanimity,... |
Nov 12 1988 Tape 2 |
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NgondroSerial: SF-01861 Class Teacher-and-Student, Patience, Emotions, Emptiness, Samsara, Happiness, Liberation,... |
Nov 1988 SFZC |
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Sunday Lecture Emotions, Anger, Renunciation, Ordination, Daily Life, Half-Smile, Ceremony,... |
Oct 09 1988 Green Gulch |
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Bodhisattva PracticeSerial: BZ-00367B Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Way, Anger, Lotus Sutra, Platform Sutra, Emotions,... |
Oct 01 1988 Berkeley Zen Center |
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September 17th, 1988, Serial No. 00366, Side B Anger, Pure Existence, Priest, Equanimity, Daily Life, Non-attachment, Emotions, Ego... |
Sep 17 1988 |
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Bodhisattva Practice: Four MethodsSerial: BZ-01498B Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva, Anger, Equanimity, Daily Life, Precepts, Building, Emotions, Attachment... |
Sep 17 1988 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Luminous MindSerial: BZ-00893B Sesshin Day 1 Silent Illumination, Posture, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Daily Life,... |
Sep 03 1988 Berkeley Zen Center |
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September 3rd, 1988, Serial No. 01952 Obstacles, Interview, Doubt, Funeral, Enemies, Evil, Instruction, Emotions, training... |
Sep 03 1988 SFZC |
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September 3rd, 1988, Serial No. 01909 Doubt, Emotions, realization, Continuous, Interview, Commitment, Enemies, Delusion,... |
Sep 03 1988 SFZC |
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1988.08.03-serial.00083 Practice Period, confusion, Obstacles, Emotions, Letting Go, Passions, Describe,... |
Aug 03 1988 |
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June 27th, 1988, Serial No. 01510 confusion, War, Hindrances, Discrimination, Concentration, Posture, Instruction,... |
Jun 27 1988 |
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June 18th, 1988, Serial No. 00891, Side B Posture, cognitive process, Instruction, Lineage, Monkey Mind, Bowing, Buddha Nature... |
Jun 18 1988 |
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June 16th, 1988, Serial No. 00895, Side B Peace, Dharma Transmission, Emotions, Samadhi, Greed, Lineage, Concentration,... |
Jun 16 1988 |
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Insight of BuddhismSerial: SF-01949 Date given as 1988.04.28 on cassette confusion, Transmission, Happiness, Duality, Emotions, Karma, Separation, Ego,... |
May 28 1988 SFZC |
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Yontenzot Samsara, confusion, Karma, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Don't Know Mind, Emotions,... |
May 01 1988 SFZC |
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YontenzotSerial: SF-01864 "Chhoje Tulku" confusion, Karma, Emptiness, Emotions, Duality, Diversity, Demons, Freedom, Obstacles... |
Apr 30 1988 SFZC |
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Yontenzot Passions, Emotions, Duality, Emptiness, Lineage, Vinaya, realization, Buddha Nature,... |
Apr 30 1988 SFZC |
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YontenzotSerial: SF-01832 "Chhoje Tulku" realization, Beginners, Nirvana Sutra, Emotions, Bodhisattva Vow, Religion, Obstacles... |
Apr 24 1988 SFZC |
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Yontenzot Emptiness, Duality, Happiness, confusion, Emotions, Samsara, Karma, Separation,... |
Apr 23 1988 SFZC |
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Benefits of Meditation for Self and Others Serial 00004 Posture, Commitment, Emotions, Culture, Letting Go, Cultivation, difficulty, Hate,... |
Apr 18 1988 Tape 1 |
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Women and Buddhism Serial 00001 Lineage, Culture, confusion, Emotions, Commitment, American, Ceremony,... |
Apr 15 1988 Tape 1 |
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April 9th, 1988, Serial No. 01068 Posture, Anger, Emptiness, Discrimination, Mindfulness, Liberation, Instruction,... |
Apr 09 1988 SFZC |
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Four Levels of TantraSerial: SF-01805 Cassette labeled: Robbie Socks Rebirth 9.21.98 Vows, Emotions |
Apr 06 1988 SFZC |
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Dzögchen Don't Know Mind, Duality, Balance, Obstacles, Karma, Happiness, Emotions,... |
Mar 28 1988 SFZC |
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Dzögchen Happiness, confusion, realization, Emotions, Liberation, Karma, Continuous,... |
Mar 28 1988 SFZC |
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February 23rd, 1988, Serial No. 01532 Continuous, Non-duality, Demons, Emotions, Bell, Samadhi, resistance, Hindrances,... |
Feb 23 1988 |
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Dzögchen part 2Serial: SF-01940 Speaker surmised from series Anger, Karma, Passions, Happiness, Emotions, Duality, Emptiness, resistance, Four... |
Feb 21 1988 SFZC |
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Dzögchen Karma, confusion, Duality, Emotions, Anger, Ego, Beginners, Buddha Nature,... |
Feb 14 1988 SFZC |
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Bodhisattva Nature Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Karma, confusion, Offering, Balance, resistance,... |
Feb 12 1988 SFZC |
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Energy Balance, Emotions, Patience, Happiness, confusion, Don't Know Mind, realization... |
Feb 05 1988 SFZC |
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Sesshin LectureSerial: BZ-00900A One-Day Sitting Separation, Priest, confusion, Duality, Vows, Emotions, Lay |
Jan 23 1988 Berkeley Zen Center |
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September 1988 talk, Serial No. 01944Serial: SF-01944 Labor Day realization, Emotions, Interview, Commitment, Enemies, Doubt, Sanctuary, Beginners,... |
1988 SFZC |
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Life of the Five BrothersSerial: NC-00654 Seminar on Life of the Five Brothers OSB Cam, Camaldolese History, War, Repentance, Emotions, zen, Intention |
Oct 1987 1 of 3 New Camaldoli Hermitage |
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Sunday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Daily Life, Oneness, resistance, Nirvana, Tassajara,... |
Sep 27 1987 Green Gulch |
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August 20th, 1987, Serial No. 00310Serial: BZ-00310 Sesshin Day 6 training, Offering, Demons, Subject-and-Object, Birth-and-Death, Judgement, Priest,... |
Aug 20 1987 |
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Sunday Lecture Half-Smile, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go, Instruction, Cultivation,... |
Jul 25 1987 Green Gulch |
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June 27th, 1987, Serial No. 00905, Side A Discrimination, Culture, Doubt, War, Mahayana, confusion, Peace, Emotions, Attachment... |
Jun 27 1987 |
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February 8th, 1987, Serial No. 00386 Buddha Nature, Intimacy, Anger, Meditation, Separation, Patience, Emotions,... |
Feb 08 1987 |
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February 5th, 1987, Serial No. 00377 Impermanence, Emotions, Separation, causation, Compassion, Consciousness, Passions,... |
Feb 05 1987 |
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February 3rd, 1987, Serial No. 00372 Emotions, Birth-and-Death, Anger, Delusion, lecture, Consciousness, Commitment, Zendo... |
Feb 03 1987 |
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Sunday Lecture Patience, Half-Smile, Anger, Emotions, Equanimity, Vows, Cultivation, Observe, Demons... |
Jan 18 1987 Green Gulch |
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March 1987 talk, Serial No. 03986 Study Period, Ceremony, Death-and-Dying, Impermanence, Posture, Buddha Nature,... |
1987 SFZC |
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Tenzo Kyokun Pt.IIISerial: BZ-01529A Rohatsu Day 3 Tenzo Kyokun, Daily Life, Discrimination, Duality, Emotions, Bowing, Oneness,... |
Dec 03 1986 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The Buddhist Meaning of RenunciationSerial: BZ-00883A Saturday Lecture Renunciation, Renunciation, Emotions, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Anger, Ego,... |
Nov 01 1986 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #43Serial: BZ-00878A Hot and Cold Buddha, Sesshin Day 4 Buddha, BCR-43, Hate, Posture, Emotions, Silence, Nirvana, Tassajara, Anger, Ego... |
Jun 07 1986 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Basics of Our Practice: Jijuyu SamadhiSerial: BZ-00876B Sesshin Day 1 Jijuyu Samadhi, Emotions, Hindrances, Posture, Bell, Offering, Obstacles, Demons,... |
Jun 04 1986 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The Bodhisattva WaySerial: BZ-00875B Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva Way, Karma, Samsara, Emotions, Attachment, Bowing, Big Mind, Hindrances,... |
Apr 25 1986 Berkeley Zen Center |
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December 7th, 1985, Serial No. 00163 Emotions, Intention, Posture, Consciousness, Ego, Passions, Oneness, Discrimination,... |
Dec 07 1985 |