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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"Cooking Your Life" (Uchiyama and Dogen)Serial: BZ-00992 Meeting the Source, Teaching Retreat Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Position, Intuition, Discrimination,... |
Sep 01 2007 Part 1 of 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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"Cooking Your Life"Serial: BZ-00993A Commentary, Teaching Retreat Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Period, Monkey Mind, Intuition, Buddha Nature, Ego, Separation... |
Sep 01 2007 Part 2 of 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zen Meditation as Bodhisattva VowDuring this course, we will study the bodhisattva vow, to see how the compassionate intentions of enlightening beings generate, work, and play with the mind of enlightenment to promote peace and... Bodhisattva Vow, zen meditation, Balance, Karmic Consequences, resistance, Confession... |
Aug 21 2007 The Yoga Room |
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Six Factors of ZazenSerial: BZ-01431 One-Day Sitting Zazen, Concentration, Birth-and-Death, Daily Life, Emotions, Samadhi, Posture,... |
Apr 15 2007 Berkeley Zen Center |
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February 24th, 2007, Serial No. 01422 Bodhisattva Way, Avalokiteshvara, War, Karma, Nirvana, American, Emotions, Dragons,... |
Feb 24 2007 |
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January 20th, 2007, Serial No. 01413 Branching Streams, Subject-and-Object, Lotus Sutra, Peace, Dragons, Discrimination,... |
Jan 20 2007 |
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2007.01.14-serial.00116C Heart Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Dharma Transmission, Diversity, Observe, Repentance... |
Jan 14 2007 |
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Precepts - Minor Precepts as AttitudeSerial: BZ-01398 Our own Vinaya that will help our Practice, Monday Morning Precepts, Vinaya, Precepts, Humility, Bodhisattva Precepts, Emotions, Vinaya,... |
Nov 13 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Right SpeechSerial: SF-00037 The eight-fold path and its relationship to the precepts. Right Speech, Suzuki Roshi, Conversation, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Precepts... |
Sep 16 2006 |
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State of the World Address: Causes and ExcusesSerial: BZ-01175 Power: Manipulation Through Maintaining Chaos, Saturday Lecture Politics, Religion, War, Peace, Evil, Emotions, Anger, Attachment, Forgiveness,... |
Jul 22 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Suffering: How We Create ItSerial: BZ-01171 The Meaning of Forgiveness and How We Free Ourselves, Saturday Lecture Suffering, Forgiveness, Forgiveness, Anger, Emotions, Hate, Judgement, War, training... |
Jun 24 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Spirit of Shuso CeremonySerial: BZ-01170 Sesshin Day 5 Shuso Hossen, Teacher-and-Student, Intuition, training, Dharma Transmission, Emotions... |
Jun 18 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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June 1st, 2006, Serial No. 01043, Side A Subject-and-Object, Passions, Skandas, Anger, confusion, Non-duality, Greed, Birth-... |
Jun 01 2006 |
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May 25th, 2006, Serial No. 01042, Side A Karma, Berkeley Zen Center, Forgiveness, Ego, Nirvana, Daily Life, Emotions, Don... |
May 25 2006 |
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Preparation for Practice PeriodSerial: BZ-01229 Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Pure Existence, Lay Practice, Daily... |
Apr 15 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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April 1st, 2006, Serial No. 01226, Side A Evil, Precepts, Eka, Five Ranks, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Bodhidharma,... |
Apr 01 2006 |
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March 19th, 2006, Serial No. 01223 Happiness, Passions, Commitment, Emotions, Obstacles, Anger, Addiction, Ego, Samadhi... |
Mar 19 2006 |
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Crisis: A Spiritual Turning PointSpiritual life exists in crisis, which can be used as a turning point. To the extent that we recognize that where we sit right now is a turning point, we are able to understand the possibility of... Transmission, Intuition, Emotions, Bell, Continuous |
Jan 08 2006 Part 2 Green Gulch Farm |
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December 1st, 2005, Serial No. 01204, Side B Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Ego, Lay, Practice Period... |
Dec 01 2005 |
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Saving Sentient Beings of Your Own MindSerial: BZ-01191 Review of Sojun's List of Mental Formations, Saturday Lecture Gaining Mind, Anger, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Vow, Vows, Forgiveness, Intuition,... |
Oct 01 2005 Berkeley Zen Center |
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May 7th, 2005, Serial No. 01321 Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Humility, Priest, Renunciation, Ego, Practice... |
May 07 2005 |
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Dharma TransmissionSerial: BZ-01550 Saturday Lecture Dharma Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Humility, Ego, Renunciation,... |
May 07 2005 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2005.05.06-serial.00180 Buddha Nature, Dependent Origination, Intention, Subject-and-Object, Interview,... |
May 06 2005 |
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2005.05.05-serial.00179 Buddha Nature, Continuous, Beginners, Subject-and-Object, Dependent Origination,... |
May 05 2005 |
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March 29th, 2005, Serial No. 00584 Tassajara, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Zoom, Demons, Hindrances,... |
Mar 29 2005 |
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Teacher-Student RelationshipsSerial: BZ-00599 Hierarchy, Sesshin Day 5 Teacher-and-Student, Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Anger, Intimacy, Practice Period... |
Mar 27 2005 |
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Emotions and AttachmentSerial: BZ-00574 Sesshin Day 7 Emotions, Attachment, Attachment, Four Noble Truths, Dream World, Emotions, Two... |
Feb 26 2005 |
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February 17th, 2005, Serial No. 00773 Precepts, Intuition, Forgiveness, Buddha Nature, Absolute-and-Relative, Repentance,... |
Feb 17 2005 |
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January 31st, 2005, Serial No. 00567 Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Right Effort, Concentration, Birth-and-Death,... |
Jan 31 2005 |
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Be the Boss of EverythingSerial: BZ-01299 When Everything Is Contained in Practice, Saturday Lecture Buddha Mind, Ordinary Mind, Big Mind, Anger, confusion, Posture, Ego, Bodhisattva Way... |
Dec 18 2004 Berkeley Zen Center |
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SalvationSerial: BZ-01295 Saving All Beings in Our Zen Practice, Rohatsu Day 5 Dependent Origination, Heart Sutra, Impermanence, Vows, Emotions, Attachment, Six... |
Dec 03 2004 Berkeley Zen Center |
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November 20th, 2004, Serial No. 01290, Side B Silence, Silent Illumination, Emotions, Platform Sutra, Soto Zen, Subject-and-Object... |
Nov 20 2004 |
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DisciplineSerial: SF-00077 Relationship with the rules while training. training, Practice Period, Vinaya, Emotions, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness,... |
Oct 20 2004 |
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September 11, 2001 Anniversary; Victims on Both SidesSerial: BZ-01246 Following in the Steps of the British and Roman Empires, Saturday Lecture Karma, Karma, American, War, Equanimity, Emotions, Evil, Building, Lineage, confusion... |
Sep 11 2004 Berkeley Zen Center |
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June 3rd, 2004, Serial No. 01025, Side B Emotions, Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Posture, Hate, Passions, confusion,... |
Jun 03 2004 |
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May 13th, 2004, Serial No. 01022, Side A Karma, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Continuous, Diversity, Attachment,... |
May 13 2004 |
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February 28th, 2004, Serial No. 01252 Blue Cliff Record, Dharma Transmission, Conversation, Karmic Consciousness, Culture,... |
Feb 28 2004 |
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The Precept of Not KillingSerial: BZ-01383 Saturday Lecture Buddha Nature, Karma, Precepts, Nirvana Sutra, Doubt, War, Dependent Origination,... |
Feb 07 2004 Berkeley Zen Center |