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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May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 01010, Side A

Soto Zen, Composure, soto, Daily Life, Tassajara, Offering, Emotions, Rinzai,...
May 16 2002

March 21st, 2002, Serial No. 00469

Karma, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Describe, Six Realms, Precepts, Renewal, Nirvana...
Mar 21 2002

Harmonizing Breath, Body, Mind and Feelings

Serial: BZ-00141A

Sesshin Day 1

Birth-and-Death, Posture, Concentration, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Emotions,...
Mar 15 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

2002.03.11-serial.00073

Impermanence, Lineage, New Year, Intuition, Teacher-and-Student, Buddha Ancestors,...
Mar 11 2002

2002.03.10-serial.00114C

Daily Life, Anger, Meditation, Zendo, true dharma, Chanting, Emotions, Ego, Vows,...
Mar 10 2002

February 14th, 2002, Serial No. 00470

Passions, Attachment, Gratitude, Intuition, Concentration, Instruction, Religion,...
Feb 14 2002

No Fault-Finding--Sixth Precept

Serial: BZ-00062A

Skillful Criticism, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Oneness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature...
Feb 02 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Sixth and Seventh Precepts and Contention

Serial: BZ-00066B

One-Day Sitting

Precepts, Anger, Precepts, stubbornness, Separation, Subject-and-Object, Attachment,...
Jan 12 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen

Serial: BZ-00064A

Rohatsu Day 3

Zazen, Concentration, Posture, resistance, Right Effort, Mindfulness, Samadhi,...
Dec 04 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

December 2nd, 2001, Serial No. 00097, Side A

Buddha Mind, Dragons, Posture, Emotions, Instruction, Concentration, Karma, Big Mind...
Dec 02 2001

2001.05.19-serial.00046

Posture, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Silent...
May 19 2001

May 5th, 2001, Serial No. 00100, Side A

Berkeley Zen Center, Rumi, Priest, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Instruction,...
May 05 2001

Releasing Ourselves in Life and Death

Serial: BZ-00100B

Saturday Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Posture, Emotions, Karma, Attachment, Zoom, Observe, Continuous,...
Apr 28 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

December 9th, 2000, Serial No. 00127, Side B

Posture, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Continuous, Attachment, Enthusiasm, Liberation...
Dec 09 2000

Hongzhi's Second Method

Serial: BZ-00127A

Rohatsu Day 5

Hongzhi, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Aspects of Practice, Instruction, Lay, Echo,...
Dec 08 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Preparing/Not Preparing for Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00124B

Saturday Lecture

Sesshin, Ego, Demons, Emotions, Posture, Equanimity, Buddha Nature, Obstacles,...
Dec 02 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

November 16th, 2000, Serial No. 00487

Birth-and-Death, Continuous, Duality, Oneness, Karma, Sixth Patriarch, Emotions, Ego...
Nov 16 2000

How Love Drives the World

Serial: BZ-00122B

Saturday Lecture

Love, Emotions, Hate, Anger, Buddha Nature, War, Ego, Attachment, Peace, Cultivation...
Nov 04 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

The Whole World Is Medicine

Serial: SF-00078

"The Four Nourishments"

Practice Period, Teacher-and-Student, Samadhi, Continuous, Commitment, Passions,...
Sep 30 2000

Codependent Chain of Origination: Why We Sit

Serial: BZ-00082B

Sesshin Day 2

Dependent Origination, Zazen, Dependent Origination, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Ego...
Sep 03 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan Commentary

Serial: BZ-00082A

Sesshin Day 1

Genjokoan, Subject-and-Object, Continuous, Renunciation, Lay Practice, Absolute-and-...
Sep 02 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

2000.07.05-serial.00158

Emotions, Delusion, Soto Zen, Greed, Precepts
Jul 05 2000

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

Serial: BZ-00160A

Polishing Tiles, Sesshin Day 5

Sandokai, Branching Streams, Emotions, Rinzai, Religion, Bodhidharma, Nirvana,...
Jun 18 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazengi

Serial: BZ-00055A

Sesshin Day 1

Zazengi, Concentration, Posture, Samadhi, Emotions, Attachment, Buddha Ancestors,...
Jun 14 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

March 9th, 2000, Serial No. 00932

Lotus Sutra, Dream World, Doubt, Buddha Ancestors, Emotions, Impermanence, Karma,...
Mar 09 2000

February 3rd, 2000, Serial No. 00926

Buddha Ancestors, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Karma, Transmission, Teacher-and-...
Feb 03 2000

Marathon Practice of Intention

Serial: BZ-00199B

Saturday Lecture

Practice, Intention, Renunciation, Subject-and-Object, Big Mind, Zazen Mind,...
Nov 06 1999
Berkeley Zen Center

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