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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July 24th, 1982, Serial No. 01516, Side B Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Eight Aspects, Concentration, Aspects of Practice,... |
Jul 24 1982 |
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Essence of Mind: The Fifth ParamitaSerial: BZ-00008A Subject and Object--Buddhanature, Saturday Lecture Paramitas, Subject-and-Object, Duality, Buddha Nature, Buddha Nature, Daily Life,... |
May 15 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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May 7th, 1982, Serial No. 00160 Impermanence, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Mind, Emotions, Buddha... |
May 07 1982 |
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The Meaning of DevotionSerial: BZ-00011A Saturday Lecture Buddha Nature, Emotions, Mahayana, Religion, Heart Sutra, Avalokiteshvara, Ego,... |
Apr 03 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Study Period Practice/The Six ParamitasSerial: BZ-00014A Lay Practice, Saturday Lecture Paramitas, Lay Practice, Teacher-and-Student, Rinzai, Daily Life, Interview, soto,... |
Mar 27 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Pure Effort In Everyday Busy LifeSerial: BZ-00020 Saturday Lecture Posture, New Year Celebration, Pure Effort, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period,... |
Jan 02 1982 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Ideal versus Actual PracticeSerial: BZ-00022A Rohatsu Day 6 Zazen, Effort, Chanting, Emotions, Building, Anger, Observe, Conversation, Religion,... |
Dec 1981 Part 2 of 3 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The Human Encounter with Death Death-and-Dying, training, Letting Go, Demons, Conversation, Emotions, Faith,... |
Oct 11 1981 1 and 2 of 3 City Center |
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The Stages of Practice IISerial: BZ-00024B Saturday Lecture resistance, Daily Life, Samadhi, Mindfulness, Aspects of Practice, Describe, Doubt,... |
Apr 04 1981 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Ngon Dro, Serial 00049 Monks, Impermanence, Teacher-and-Student, Sangha, Delusion, lecture, Emotions,... |
Mar 09 1980 Sides 1 and 2 New York City |
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Ngon Dro, Serial 00050 Impermanence, Teacher-and-Student, Right Effort, Birth-and-Death, Mahayana, Delusion... |
Mar 09 1980 Session 2, Tape 1 New York City |
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Ngon Dro, Serial 00054 Monks, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Delusion, lecture, Emotions, confusion,... |
Mar 09 1980 New York City |
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Lam Dre: On Achieving the Goal, Serial 00068 Subject-and-Object, New Year, Delusion, Sutra, Passions, Concentration, Chanting,... |
Feb 12 1980 |
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The Nature of Mind, Serial 00069 Buddha Nature, Sutra, Non-duality, Concentration, true dharma, Right Effort,... |
Feb 05 1980 |
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December 19th, 1979, Serial No. 00143 Buddha Mind, Intimacy, Mindfulness, Anger, Emotions |
Dec 19 1979 |
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December 18th, 1979, Serial No. 00142 Breath, confusion, Evil, Fifth Precept, Beginners, Happiness, Emotions, Interview,... |
Dec 18 1979 |
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December 17th, 1979, Serial No. 00139 Pain, Intuition, Consciousness, realization, Beginners, Subject-and-Object, Don'... |
Dec 17 1979 |
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December 16th, 1979, Serial No. 00140 Buddha Mind, Beginners, Emotions, Instruction, Consciousness, Posture, Ceremony,... |
Dec 16 1979 |
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December 14th, 1979, Serial No. 00141 Emotions, Subject-and-Object, confusion, Meditation, Oneness, Happiness,... |
Dec 14 1979 |
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December 13th, 1979, Serial No. 00137 Concentration, Emotions, Right Effort, Separation, realization, Suffering, Oneness,... |
Dec 13 1979 |
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December 13th, 1979, Serial No. 00138 realization, Concentration, Buddha Nature, Right Effort, Building, Subject-and-Object... |
Dec 13 1979 |
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The Four Truths Happiness, Four Noble Truths, Religion, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Gratitude,... |
Oct 21 1979 |
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September 5th, 1979, Serial No. 00133 confusion, Hate, Subject-and-Object, Community, Consciousness, Intuition, Beginners,... |
Sep 05 1979 |
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March 7th, 1979, Serial No. 00115 Mindfulness, Obstacles, Samadhi, Enemies, Balance, Bell, Nirvana, Emotions, Evil,... |
Mar 07 1979 |
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March 7th, 1979, Serial No. 00130 Mindfulness, Samadhi, Obstacles, Chanting, Enemies, Balance, Bell, Nirvana, Emotions... |
Mar 07 1979 |
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February 28th, 1979, Serial No. 00109 Eight Awarenesses, Enemies, Transmission, Silence, Emotions |
Feb 28 1979 |
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February 28th, 1979, Serial No. 00122 Eight Awarenesses, Enemies, Intention, Transmission, Silence, Emotions, Building... |
Feb 28 1979 |
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August 29th, 1976, Serial No. 00084 Silence, Buddha Nature, Hate, Beginners, Anger, Describe, Fox, Balance, Emotions,... |
Aug 29 1976 |
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September 1975 talk, Serial No. 00068 Separation, Gratitude, Zendo, Enemies, Transmission, Nirvana, Describe, Emotions,... |
Sep 1975 |
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November 14th, 1972, Serial No. 00348 Silence, Consciousness, Attachment, Separation, Suffering, Conversation, Emotions,... |
Nov 14 1972 |
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October 1972 talk, Serial No. 00337 Concentration, realization, Hate, Breath, lecture, Patience, Oneness, confusion,... |
Oct 1972 |
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October 1972 talk, Serial No. 00340 Don't Know Mind, Silence, Lay, Delusion, Anger, Emotions, Hate |
Oct 1972 |
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March 1972 talk, Serial No. 00177 Mahayana, Four Noble Truths, Emotions, Consciousness, Nirvana, Community, Attachment... |
Mar 1972 |
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February 25th, 1972, Serial No. 00183 Emotions, Buddha Mind, training, Buddha Nature, realization, soto, Mahayana, Chanting... |
Feb 25 1972 |
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October 22nd, 1971, Serial No. 00277 Community, Compassion, Funeral, Describe, Emotions, Ceremony, training, Pain,... |
Oct 22 1971 |
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October 1971 talk, Serial No. 00044 Bell, Suffering, Four Noble Truths, Building, stubbornness, Samadhi, Patience,... |
Oct 1971 |
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September 22nd, 1971, Serial No. 00274 Constancy, Birth-and-Death, Delusion, lecture, Emotions, Ceremony, Evil, American... |
Sep 22 1971 |