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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The Mirth of Buddha's Birth

Serial: BZ-02168

I Alone am the Honored One, Saturday Lecture

Bodhi Tree, Buddha's Birthday, Birth-and-Death, Renewal, Emotions, Demons,...
Apr 02 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

The Four Noble Truths

Serial: BZ-02163

Routine and Depression, Saturday Lecture

Suffering, Faith, Karma, Death-and-Dying, Four Noble Truths, Hate, Liberation, Daily...
Mar 05 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-02157

Ordinary Life is the Way, Sesshin Day 1

Sense of separation, Neither good nor bad

 

Nirvana, Separation, Greed, Birth-and-Death, Interview, Culture, Emotions, Karma, Ego...
Feb 19 2011
Part 1 of 4
Berkeley Zen Center

Going Beyond Teachers and Ourselves

Half-Smile, Study Period, resistance, Instruction, Patience, Practice Period, Hate,...
Jan 22 2011

Living Authentically

Buddha Nature, Dream World, Passions, training, Mindfulness, Separation, Sanctuary,...
Dec 04 2010

Minor Precepts-Shingi

Serial: BZ-02139

Precepts, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Shingi, Precepts, Forgiveness, Humility, Renunciation, Conversation,...
Nov 13 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

Sattipathana Sutta

Emotions, Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Passions, Anger, Intimacy, Daily Life,...
Oct 28 2010

2010.08.12-serial.00135

Silence, Interview, Religion, Emotions, Dragons, Posture, Compassion
Aug 12 2010

2010.08.11-serial.00133

Passions, Buddha Nature, Fundraising, Breath, Interview, Emotions, Instruction,...
Aug 11 2010

2010.08.10-serial.00130

Posture, Liberation, Dragons, Impermanence, Enemies, Bodhidharma, Emotions, Describe...
Aug 10 2010

2010.08.09-serial.00128

Religion, Emotions, Vows
Aug 09 2010

2010.08.08-serial.00127

Emotions, Birth-and-Death, Enemies, Funeral, Silence, Ego, confusion, Describe,...
Aug 08 2010

2010.08.07-serial.00125

Birth-and-Death, Intimacy, Echo, Demons, Patience, Samsara, Religion, training,...
Aug 07 2010

The Mind of Enlightenment 

Enthusiasm, Precepts, Emotions, Balance, Duality
Jul 29 2010
The Yoga Room

Blue Cliff Record Case 43 - Tozan's Heat and Cold

Serial: BZ-02111

Shuso talk - Sesshin Day 5

 

BCR-43, Posture, Liberation, Happiness, Separation, Conversation, Emotions, Priest...
Jun 27 2010

Genjokoan - Finding Your Way and Your Place

Serial: BZ-02108

Mortality and Immortality, Sesshin Day 2

Continuous, Daily Life, Intuition, Happiness, confusion, Conversation, Duality,...
Jun 24 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

Women's Practice

Intimacy, Attachment, Lineage, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Dharma Transmission,...
Jan 09 2010

The Advantage of New Years

New Year, Happiness, Bodhidharma, Emotions, Impermanence, Precepts, Culture, Fox,...
Jan 02 2010

Holidays and Affliction

Dragons, Gratitude, New Year, Addiction, Intimacy, Birth-and-Death, confusion, Don...
Nov 21 2009

2009.10.22-serial.00228AB

Serial: EB-00228AB

Being fully aware of our perceptions, of good and bad things; being authentic versus looking good; meditation as a safe place to meet what is arising.

Equanimity, Observe, Describe, Emotions
Oct 22 2009

Joshu's 'Wash your Bowl'

Serial: BZ-02049

Open, unassuming mind, One-Day Sitting,

standing up from zazen

Zazen, Don't Know Mind, Renunciation, Don't Know Mind, Religion, Greed,...
Jul 18 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Continuous Practice

Serial: BZ-02044

Shuso talk

Practice Period, Continuous, Conversation, Intimacy, Happiness, Passions, Hate, Vows...
Jun 19 2009

Brown Rice is Just Right

Serial: BZ-02043

Cultivating the Empty Field, Sesshin Day 2

Suzuki Roshi, Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Birth-and-Death, Religion, American...
Jun 18 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Class 4 Practice Instructions

Don't Know Mind, Birth-and-Death, Silent Illumination, Emotions, Duality,...
Jun 04 2009

Ordinary Mind is the Way

Serial: BZ-02032

Shuso talk

Ordinary Mind, Intuition, Emotions, Big Mind, Practice Period, Forgiveness, Fox,...
May 16 2009

Zazen Instruction

Serial: BZ-02031

Bansan

BCR-, Zazen, Posture, Building, Emotions, Beginners, resistance, Religion
May 15 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Case #7 - Wash Your Bowl

Serial: BZ-02027

Saturday Lecture

BCR-7, Family Practice, Transmission, Bell, Daily Life, Building, Emotions,...
May 02 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Compassion

Passions, Emotions, Anger, Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Five Ranks, Hate,...
Mar 07 2009

Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng

Serial: BZ-02007

Rohatsu Day 4

Hui Neng, Posture, Ego, Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Passions, American, Peace,...
Dec 10 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

2008.11.23-serial.00224

Emotions, Tenzo, Addiction, Lay, confusion
Nov 23 2008

2008.11.22-serial.00223

Desire, Emotions, Chanting, Don't Know Mind, Letting Go
Nov 22 2008

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: themes: Serial No. 01073

Serial: BZ-01073

One-Day Sitting

Big Mind, Composure, Emotions, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Big Mind, Posture,...
Nov 15 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

2008.09.28-serial.00221B

Letting Go, Intention, Way-Seeking Mind, Emotions, Thich Nhat Hanh
Sep 28 2008

2008.09.28-serial.00221D

Describe, Death, Emotions, Intention
Sep 28 2008

2008.09.28-serial.00221C

Letting Go, Emotions, Renunciation, Silence, Offering
Sep 28 2008

2008.09.27-serial.00221A

Intuition, Desire, Interview, Emotions
Sep 27 2008

Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-Arising

Serial: BZ-01155A

Pratitya Samutpada, Teaching Retreat

Anger, Greed, Karma, Renunciation, Ego, Hindrances, Mindfulness, Emotions, Skandas,...
Aug 31 2008
Part 1 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

August 9th, 2008, Serial No. 01151

Dependent Origination, Emotions, Vows, Demons, Conversation, Bodhisattva Vow, Anger,...
Aug 09 2008

Blue Cliff Record: Case #80

Serial: BZ-01140

Joshu's the New-born Babe Part I, Sesshin Day 2

Joshu, BCR-80, Emotions, Continuous, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Ego, Attachment,...
Jun 19 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen in Practice Period:

Serial: BZ-01129

Posture, Breath, Mind, One-Day Sitting

Posture, Discrimination, Practice Period, Subject-and-Object, confusion, Duality,...
May 04 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

March 15th, 2008, Serial No. 01120

Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Vows, Precepts, Culture, Anger, Forgiveness,...
Mar 15 2008

January 26th, 2008, Serial No. 01111

Offering, Silence, New Year, Hate, Passions, Separation, Conversation, Peace,...
Jan 26 2008

January 19th, 2008, Serial No. 01109, Side B

Bell, Daily Life, Hate, Culture, Emotions, Ego, Impermanence, Liberation, Silence,...
Jan 19 2008

January 5th, 2008, Serial No. 01107

Emotions, Nirvana Sutra, Impermanence, Hindrances, Nirvana, Mindfulness, Liberation,...
Jan 05 2008

December 15th, 2007, Serial No. 01106

New Year, Happiness, Berkeley Zen Center, Vows, Don't Know Mind, Heart Sutra,...
Dec 15 2007

November 17th, 2007, Serial No. 01096

Patience, Mindfulness, training, Anger, Right Speech, Emotions, Aspects of Practice,...
Nov 17 2007

The Great Vow of Wholeheartedness and Taking Care of Our Stories

Green Gulch Farm Sunday Dharma Talk
October 21, 2007

zen meditation, Rumi, Emotions, Tassajara, Money
Oct 21 2007
Green Gulch Farm

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