Consciousness Talks
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate by philosophers, scientists, and theologians. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of it. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination, and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling, or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, metacognition, or self-awareness, either continuously changing or not. The disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises a curiosity about whether the right questions are being asked.
Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one's sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within"; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or being a mental state, mental event, or mental process of the brain.
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Buddha Is Always HereSerial: SR-00051 Sandokai Lecture III [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Truth, Compassion,... |
Jun 01 1970 Tassajara |
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The Background of Shikantaza Pain, Observe, Consciousness, Posture, sitting |
Feb 22 1970 City Center |
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Epilogue: Zen MindSerial: SR-00263 American practice different from Japanese practice. Enlightenment experience is beyond good and bad, beyond our usual way of thinking. Big mind is always with you, never... Big Mind, Enlightenment, Passions, Big Mind, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,... |
Nov 16 1969 |
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2Serial: SR-00037 Third Lotus Sutra Series [The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The... Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,... |
Oct 23 1969 Series 3, Talk 2 Tassajara |
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Twelve Links of CausationSerial: SR-00135 Twelve Links Of Causation English Japanese Sanskrit... Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,... |
Aug 23 1969 Tassajara |
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-15Serial: SR-00006 Fall, 1968 Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Conversation, Meditation, Demons, American, First... |
Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 15 Tassajara |
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OLD - In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shūSerial: SR-00089 Reel was wrongly dated - transcript matches 66-12-17-A Discussion of fascicle Shobogeno Gakudo Yojinshu. Way-seeking mind and responding to encountering the... Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, training, Birth-and-Death, Instruction,... |
Dec 17 1966 A Sokoji |
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OLD - The Second Paragraph of the Genjo KoanSerial: SR-00196 Monday, August 15, 1966 Sesshin, Genjokoan, Dogen, Consciousness, Attachment, Instruction, Doubt, reality,... |
Aug 15 1966 A Sokoji |
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OLD - In the Prajnaparamita SutraHeart Sutra, Emptiness, Wisdom, Perfect Wisdom, Beginners, Politics, Balance,... |
Jan 21 1966 BN |
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OLD - If You Have A QuestionSerial: 65-07-30-C Sesshin Lecture Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Death, Religion, Peace, Consciousness,... |
Jul 30 1965 C Sokoji |