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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Purely Involved Helping Others

Nansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon, Bodhisattva Vow, Bodhisattva Vow,...
Jun 22 1971
City Center

Humor Is More Real Than Reallity

Serial: SR-00274

Sesshin Lecture No. 5
Tuesday, February 9, 1971
San Francisco

Sesshin, Discrimination, Dragons, Observe, Emotions, Instruction, confusion
Feb 09 1971
City Center

The Boat Is Always Moving

Serial: SR-00059

Sandokai Lecture VII
Saturday, June 13, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 17 Shidai no sho...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Emotions, Peace, Enemies, Karma, Anger, Hate...
Jun 13 1970
Tassajara

Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

Serial: SF-05184A

Sesshin: First Night Lecture, “I Don't Know Zazen”
September 1969
Tassajara

Knowing that we have buddha nature even while we are in the...

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment, Five Ranks, Buddha Nature, Composure, Emotions,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Question And Answer Session

Serial: SR-00025

Tuesday, July 8, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Greed, Emotions, Zazen, Culture,...
Jul 08 1969
Sokoji

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...
Nov 11 1968
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1

Serial: SF-05681

[Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968]
Sunday Evening, October 20, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Describe, Vows, Enemies, Conversation, Karma, Emotions
Oct 20 1968
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1

Serial: 68-10-20

[Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968]
Sunday Evening, October 20, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Describe, Sutra, Emotions, Death, Vows, Karma, Religion, Enemies, Priest...
Oct 20 1968
Series 2, Talk 1
Tassajara

Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And Body

Serial: SF-05131B

This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this)
Several minutes of tape operator's notes at the end are included, the transcript was...

Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,...
Sep 08 1967
Morning
Tassajara

OLD - Ignorance

Serial: SF-05131A

SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture B -...

Giving-and-Taking, Attachment, Freedom, training, Hindrances, Chanting, Evil,...
Sep 08 1967
Tassajara

OLD - Using Various Stones

Serial: SF-05131C

SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture A 9/8/67...

Enemies, Evil, Emotions, Hate
Sep 08 1967
Tassajara

OLD - Do You Have Some Questions?

Serial: 65-07-30-D

Sesshin Lecture
Thursday, July 30, 1965, 6 PM, Lecture D
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Transmission, Emotions, training, Happiness, Truth,...
Jul 30 1965
D
Sokoji

Do You Have Some Questions?

Serial: SF-05107A

Tape 7 Summer 1965 Sesshin: Side 1 Friday evening lecture (transcribed) [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR]

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Transmission, training, Emotions, Buddha Nature,...
Jul 30 1965
D
Sokoji

OLD - Some More Questions

Serial: 65-07-29-C

Sesshin, Lecture C
Thursday, July 29, 1965, 6:30 PM
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Emotions, Buddha Nature, Passions, Happiness, Religion...
Jul 29 1965
C
Sokoji

OLD - Questions

Serial: 65-07-29-B

Sesshin Lecture, Lecture B
Thursday, July 29, 1965, 1 PM
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Demons, Anger, Culture,...
Jul 29 1965
B
Sokoji

Some More Questions

Serial: SF-05104A

Tape 5 Summer sesshin 1965 Thursday July 29th Side 1 - 6pm lecture; Continues on Side 2 [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR]

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Precepts, Emotions, Buddha Nature, Passions, training,...
Jul 29 1965
C
Sokoji

OLD - Questions

Serial: 65-07-28-D

Sesshin Lecture, Lecture D
Wednesday, July 28, 1965, 6 PM
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Suffering, Emotions, Faith, Truth, Religion, Culture,...
Jul 28 1965
D
Sokoji

Questions

Serial: SF-05126E

Tape 3 Summer Sesshin July 1965 - Wednesday July 28 1965 Tape 3 side 2 Wed July 28th 6pm lecture - transcribed; copied June 30 1973; SR001

Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Four Noble Truths, Emotions, Faith, Passions, Delusion...
Jul 28 1965
D
Sokoji

Forgotten the Value of Religion

Serial: SF-05101A

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #5, by Shundo David Haye =====

The oldest recordings of Suzuki Roshi made at Sokoji, the home of the San Francisco Zen Center at the...

Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Inmost Nature, Religion, Don't Know Mind, Buddha...
Jul 27 1965
1:00pm
Sokoji