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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RenunciationSerial: BZ-00956A Saturday Lecture Renunciation, Anger, Renunciation, Nirvana, Ego, Daily Life, Greed, Right Effort,... |
Oct 29 1994 Berkeley Zen Center |
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1994.10.02-serial.00117 Lovingkindness, Equanimity, Skandas, Letting Go, Emotions |
Oct 02 1994 |
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September 17th, 1994, Serial No. 00934, Side A Precepts, Repentance, Vows, Interdependence, Buddha Nature, Enemies, Right Speech,... |
Sep 17 1994 |
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August 14th, 1994, Serial No. 00937, Side A Hindrances, Anger, Doubt, Emotions, Aspects of Practice, Bowing, Passions, Describe,... |
Aug 14 1994 |
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July 30th, 1994, Serial No. 00939, Side B Discrimination, Enemies, resistance, Transmission, Duality, Emotions, Attachment... |
Jul 30 1994 |
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FeelingsSerial: BZ-00050B Sesshin Day 4 Emotions, Discrimination, Big Mind, Ego, Tassajara, Posture, Anger, Doubt |
Mar 27 1994 |
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March 19th, 1994, Serial No. 00550 Five Ranks, Attachment, Subject-and-Object, Commitment, Ego, Sixth Patriarch, Duality... |
Mar 19 1994 |
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Madyamika/Yogachara Schools of Emptiness/SynthesisSerial: BZ-00964A Three Bodies of Buddha pt. II, Sesshin Day 2 Madyamika, Trikaya, Emptiness, Yogachara, Religion, Emotions, Karma, Sixth Patriarch... |
Mar 13 1994 Berkeley Zen Center |
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March 4th, 1994, Serial No. 00557 Evil, Big Mind, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, Hindrances, Five Ranks, Nirvana, Soto... |
Mar 04 1994 |
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December 18th, 1993, Serial No. 00959, Side A Emotions, Mindfulness, Skandas, Four Foundations, Dependent Origination, New Year,... |
Dec 18 1993 |
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Refining Your LifeSerial: BZ-01497A Rohatsu Day 3 Tenzo Kyokun, Bell, Sanctuary, Emotions, Book of Serenity, soto, Discrimination,... |
Dec 01 1993 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Nagarajuna and Dogen on BuddhanatureSerial: BZ-00659B Happiness, Reward, and Love, One-Day Sitting Buddha Nature, Happiness, Love, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Daily Life... |
Nov 07 1993 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #2Serial: BZ-00657A Joshu's "The Way Is Not Difficult", Saturday Lecture Joshu, BCR-2, confusion, Attachment, Hate, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Emotions,... |
Sep 18 1993 Berkeley Zen Center |
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August 14th, 1993, Serial No. 00655, Side B Monastic Practice, Precepts, Religion, American, Emotions, Mindfulness, Daily Life,... |
Aug 14 1993 |
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July 31st, 1993, Serial No. 00654, Side B Pure Existence, Obstacles, Posture, Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Instruction,... |
Jul 31 1993 |
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July 24th, 1993, Serial No. 00654, Side A Anger, Instruction, Emotions, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Concentration,... |
Jul 24 1993 |
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June 19th, 1993, Serial No. 01515, Side A Constancy, confusion, Chanting, Building, Emotions |
Jun 19 1993 |
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Practice and BoredomSerial: BZ-00670A Sesshin Day 5 Zazen, Stillness, Daily Life, Pure Existence, Doubt, Posture, soto, Separation,... |
Jun 13 1993 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Buddhism and American Culture Emptiness, Forgiveness, Letting Go, Samadhi, training, Emotions, Freedom, Four Noble... |
May 03 1993 City Center |
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March 27th, 1993, Serial No. 00662, Side A Mindfulness, Observe, Daily Life, Separation, Concentration, Posture, Duality,... |
Mar 27 1993 |
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March 25th, 1993, Serial No. 00269 Precepts, Concentration, Mindfulness, Soto Zen, Impermanence, zen meditation,... |
Mar 25 1993 |
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February 11th, 1993, Serial No. 00620 Anger, Precepts, Emotions, Bowing, Vows, Gratitude, Ordination, Culture, Greed,... |
Feb 11 1993 |
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The First Noble Truth, The Three Kinds of SufferingSerial: BZ-00648B The Suffering of Impermanence, Saturday Lecture Impermanence, Four Noble Truths, Bodhisattva Vow, Attachment, Impermanence, Emotions... |
Feb 06 1993 Berkeley Zen Center |
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January 21st, 1993, Serial No. 00617 Precepts, Giving-and-Taking, Mahayana, Attachment, Passions, Buddha Mind, Emotions,... |
Jan 21 1993 |
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October 1st, 1992, Serial No. 00612 Anger, Precepts, Patience, Ordinary Mind, Enemies, Emotions, Dependent Origination,... |
Oct 01 1992 |
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September 26th, 1992, Serial No. 00638, Side B Silence, Don't Know Mind, resistance, Concentration, Peace, Emotions, Politics,... |
Sep 26 1992 |
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1992.09.20-serial.00112 Emotions, Buddha Nature, Sanctuary, Equanimity, Desire |
Sep 20 1992 |
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1992.09.20-serial.00257 Emotions, Buddha Nature, Sanctuary, Desire, Equanimity |
Sep 20 1992 |
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Criticism in the Realm of Absolute and RelativeSerial: BZ-00631A Sesshin Day 5 Absolute-and-Relative, Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, Discrimination, Emotions, Ego... |
Jun 28 1992 Berkeley Zen Center |
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GenjokoanSerial: BZ-00709A Sesshin Day 1 Genjokoan, Duality, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Emotions, Practice Period,... |
Jun 24 1992 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Mumonkan: Case #45: Who Is that Other?Serial: BZ-00711B Buddha and Maitreya Are Servants to Another, Saturday Lecture Buddha, Maitreya, MM-45, Ego, Anger, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Bodhisattva... |
Jun 13 1992 Berkeley Zen Center |
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May 21st, 1992, Serial No. 00607 Absolute-and-Relative, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Emotions, Daily Life, Darkness and Light,... |
May 21 1992 |
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May 9th, 1992, Serial No. 00712, Side B Silence, confusion, Emotions, Anger, Greed, Funeral, Discrimination, Conversation,... |
May 09 1992 |
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May 3rd, 1992, Serial No. 00710, Side A Four Foundations, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, American, Peace, Emotions, Anger |
May 03 1992 |
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March 7th, 1992, Serial No. 00686, Side B Emotions, Berkeley Zen Center, Posture, Describe, Separation, Beginners, Sangha,... |
Mar 07 1992 |
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1991.12.03-serial.00106B Concentration, Monkey Mind, Thich Nhat Hanh, Building, Emotions |
Dec 03 1991 |
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1991.11.03-serial.00248 Emotions, Offering, Don't Know Mind, Manjushri, Karma |
Nov 03 1991 |
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Green Tara Q&A Serial 00024 Emotions, confusion, Lineage |
Oct 20 1991 Tape 4 Cupertino California |
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Green Tara Serial 00019 Concentration, Samadhi, Ceremony, Six Realms, Freedom, American, Equanimity, Emotions... |
Oct 19 1991 Tape 1 Cupertino California |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #93Serial: BZ-00750A True Self is Expressed, Saturday Lecture BCR-93, Emotions, Gratitude, Observe, Enthusiasm, American, Building, War, training... |
Sep 21 1991 Berkeley Zen Center |
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1991.09.18-serial.00092 Practice Period, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Intimacy, Posture, Aspects of Practice, Zazen,... |
Sep 18 1991 |
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Fear Emptiness, Mindfulness, Right Speech, Describe, Don't Know Mind, Commitment,... |
Aug 05 1991 City Center |
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Suffering and IntentionSerial: BZ-00968A Sesshin Day 5 Suffering, Intention, Emotions, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Religion, Lay, Tassajara... |
Jun 30 1991 Berkeley Zen Center |
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What is Sesshin?Serial: BZ-00967B Sesshin Day 4 Sesshin, Pure Existence, Building, Peace, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Karma, Happiness... |
Jun 29 1991 Berkeley Zen Center |