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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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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4 Truths Faith, Observe, Passions, Emotions, Hate |
Oct 21 1979 SFZC |
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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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PrayerSerial: NC-01109 Prayer OSB Cam, Emptiness, Emotions, zen, Addiction, Breath |
Sep 1978 3 of 3 |
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July 10th, 1977, Serial No. 00188 Emotions, Samadhi, Way-Seeking Mind, Concentration, Conversation |
Jul 10 1977 |
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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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June 19th, 1976, Serial No. 00037 Joshu, Breath, Sixth Patriarch, Emotions, Religion |
Jun 19 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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August 16th, 1974, Serial No. 00168 First Principle, Attachment, Love, Emotions, confusion |
Aug 16 1974 |
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November 25th, 1973, Serial No. 00232 Emotions, Perfect Wisdom, Precepts, Samadhi, Abhidharma |
Nov 25 1973 |
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August 7th, 1973, Serial No. 00137 Anger, Emotions, Compassion, Instruction, Bodhisattva Vow |
Aug 07 1973 |
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Discussions First Principle, Faith, Emotions, Samadhi, resistance, Commitment, Observe, Balance,... |
May 14 1973 Tassajara |
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April 15th, 1973, Serial No. 00119 Tozan Ryokai, Tozan, Emotions, Non-thinking |
Apr 15 1973 |
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April 15th, 1973, Serial No. 00295 Tozan Ryokai, Yakusan, Emotions, Non-thinking |
Apr 15 1973 |
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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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OLD - Funeral Service for Suzuki RoshiCeremony, Funeral, Suzuki Roshi, Community, Culture, Ceremony, Zendo, Funeral,... |
Dec 12 1971 1/2 City Center |
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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 |
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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 |
1971 |
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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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OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1Serial: 68-10-20 [Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968] Lotus Sutra, Describe, Sutra, Emotions, Death, Vows, Karma, Religion, Enemies, Priest... |
Oct 20 1968 Series 2, Talk 1 Tassajara |
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No ZenSerial: SF-05127 Humanities Dept Cal-State Hayward, intro John Fairchild [plus his address and phone number and explanantion] Lineage, Emotions, Commitment |
Nov 29 1967 Unknown |
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OLD - Using Various StonesSerial: SF-05131C 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 A 9/8/67... Enemies, Evil, Emotions, Hate |
Sep 08 1967 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 |