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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March 29th, 2003, Serial No. 00541 Birth-and-Death, Discrimination, Non-duality, Attachment, Renunciation, Anger, Daily... |
Mar 29 2003 |
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March 29th, 2003, Serial No. 00545 Attachment, Non-attachment, Composure, Interview, Happiness, Discrimination, Emotions... |
Mar 29 2003 |
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March 13th, 2003, Serial No. 00491 Four Noble Truths, Birth-and-Death, causation, Right Effort, Bell, Emotions, Passions... |
Mar 13 2003 |
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March 1st, 2003, Serial No. 00182, Side B Ego, Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Intimacy, Samadhi, Chanting, Greed, Observe,... |
Mar 01 2003 |
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March 1st, 2003, Serial No. 00463 Ego, Don't Know Mind, Emotions, causation, Intimacy, Samadhi, Chanting, Greed,... |
Mar 01 2003 |
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March 1st, 2003, Serial No. 00464 Emotions, Anger, Equanimity, Separation, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Passions, Buddha... |
Mar 01 2003 |
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February 28th, 2003, Serial No. 00462 Anger, Ego, Hindrances, Emotions, Observe, Describe, Four Noble Truths, Greed,... |
Feb 28 2003 |
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February 22nd, 2003, Serial No. 00182, Side A Confession-and-Repentance, Separation, Patience, Emotions, Conversation, Culture,... |
Feb 22 2003 |
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2003.02.17-serial.00032 Anger, Religion, Compassion, Politics, Patience, Interview, Greed, Emotions, Freedom... |
Feb 17 2003 |
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2003.02.16-serial.00164 Compassion, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Ancestors, Continuous, Bodhidharma,... |
Feb 16 2003 |
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How to Maintain Our Composure in Uncertain TimesSerial: BZ-00180A Saturday Lecture Four Foundations, Satipattana Sutra, Composure, Mindfulness, Anger, Composure,... |
Feb 02 2003 Berkeley Zen Center |
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How Do We Deal With the Emotions and Mental States?Serial: BZ-00179 Saturday Lecture Emotions, Anger, Peace, resistance, Nirvana, Equanimity, Four Foundations,... |
Jan 25 2003 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Joshu's "Go Wash Your Bowls"Serial: BZ-00178A One-Day Sitting Joshu, Continuous, Pure Existence, New Year, Aspects of Practice, Interview, Daily... |
Jan 11 2003 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Sogen Shaku Scroll and Zen and WarSerial: BZ-00176 Rohatsu Day 6 War, War, Emotions, Priest, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Judgement, Religion, American, Ego,... |
Dec 07 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Everyday Life Is Like a MovieSerial: BZ-00173B The Movie and the Empty Screen, Rohatsu Day 2 Practice, Daily Life, Anger, Instruction, Posture, Emotions, Big Mind, Heart Sutra,... |
Dec 03 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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November 9th, 2002, Serial No. 01526 Posture, Subject-and-Object, Emotions, Mindfulness, Daily Life, Describe, Building,... |
Nov 09 2002 |
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September 21st, 2002, Serial No. 00211 Liberation, Four Foundations, Mindfulness, Culture, Instruction, Building, Emotions,... |
Sep 21 2002 |
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September 5th, 2002, Serial No. 00479 Bell, Separation, confusion, Echo, Ego, Liberation, Birth-and-Death, Sanctuary,... |
Sep 05 2002 |
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Mumonkan: Case #9Serial: BZ-00233A Nonattained Buddha and Polishing the Tile, Sesshin Day 1 Buddha, MM-9, Lotus Sutra, Bodhidharma, Monkey Mind, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Peace... |
Aug 31 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zazen as Middle WaySerial: BZ-00150B Sesshin Day 2 Zazen, Mahayana, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Intuition, Lotus Sutra, Religion, Don... |
Jun 20 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |