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 15th, 1971, Serial No. 00260 American, Karma, Instruction, Consciousness, Culture, Lay, Emotions, Discrimination... |
Jul 15 1971 |
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Purely Involved Helping OthersNansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon, Bodhisattva Vow, Bodhisattva Vow,... |
Jun 22 1971 City Center |
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May 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00294 Breath, Oneness, training, Right Effort, Echo, Emotions, Discrimination,... |
May 03 1971 |
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April 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00325 Happiness, Consciousness, Don't Know Mind, Buddha Nature, Delusion, stubbornness... |
Apr 05 1971 |
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Humor Is More Real Than ReallitySerial: SR-00274 Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Sesshin, Discrimination, Dragons, Observe, Emotions, Instruction, confusion |
Feb 09 1971 City Center |
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1971, Serial No. 00332 Breath, Observe, Interdependence, Emotions |
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October 3rd, 1970, Serial No. 00222 Patience, Delusion, lecture, American, Breath, Anger, Emotions, Building, Ego,... |
Oct 03 1970 |
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September 13th, 1970, Serial No. 00308 Ceremony, Chanting, Buddha Nature, Posture, Lay, Bowing, Oneness, Culture, Describe,... |
Sep 13 1970 |
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August 1st, 1970, Serial No. 00306 Emotions, Mindfulness, Observe, Anger, Buddha Nature, Patience, lecture, Obstacles,... |
Aug 01 1970 |
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July 7th, 1970, Serial No. 00236 Attachment, Buddha Nature, Observe, Liberation, Sanctuary, Building, Precepts,... |
Jul 07 1970 |
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The Boat Is Always MovingSerial: SR-00059 Sandokai Lecture VII [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 17 Shidai no sho... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Emotions, Peace, Enemies, Karma, Anger, Hate... |
Jun 13 1970 Tassajara |
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What Is Our Practice? Big Mind, Concentration, Building, Offering, Emotions, Anger |
Jan 04 1970 |
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Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is ThereSerial: SF-05184A Sesshin: First Night Lecture, “I Don't Know Zazen” Knowing that we have buddha nature even while we are in the... Dogen, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment, Five Ranks, Buddha Nature, Composure, Emotions,... |
Sep 1969 Tassajara |
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August 26th, 1969, Serial No. 00035 Monastic Practice, training, American, Describe, Meditation, Bell, Ego, Emotions,... |
Aug 26 1969 |
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Question And Answer SessionSerial: SR-00025 Tuesday, July 8, 1969 Question-and-Answer, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Greed, Emotions, Zazen, Culture,... |
Jul 08 1969 Sokoji |
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June 10th, 1969, Serial No. 00015 Consciousness, Big Mind, Obstacles, Emotions, New Year, Samadhi, Suffering, Ego, Hate... |
Jun 10 1969 |
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Shosan CeremonyShosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,... |
Nov 11 1968 Tassajara |
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1Serial: SF-05681 [Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968] Lotus Sutra, Describe, Vows, Enemies, Conversation, Karma, Emotions |
Oct 20 1968 Tassajara |
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Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And BodySerial: SF-05131B This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this) Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,... |
Sep 08 1967 Morning 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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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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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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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 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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