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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Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-02751

Appreciation for the world happens. Don't go looking for heavenly sights. We get sticky around the beautiful. Master Heretung (?) letter - being in the world without misery...

Family Practice, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi, Peace, Equanimity, Bowing, Dragons, Sangha,...
Dec 03 2003
Green Gulch

Offerings

Serial: SF-00158

Sunday talk. Children's lecture.
Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness.

Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma...
Nov 02 2003
Green Gulch Farm

September 20th, 2003, Serial No. 03984

Light-and-Darkness, Intimacy, Bowing, Commitment, Transmission, Lineage, Karma, Vows...
Sep 20 2003
City Center

Healing Through the Dark Emotions

Serial: SF-01052

Sunday Lecture: Children's Lecture first part of the talk. Penguins. Dalai Lama. Short meditation. Mudras of Tara and Buddha. Dark emotions. Matthew Frick. Grief. Fear....

Emotions, Anger, Bell, Light-and-Darkness, Vows, Funeral, Gratitude, Constancy, Peace...
Sep 07 2003
Green Gulch

Suffering

Serial: SF-04034

Sunday Lecture: Being present with one's own suffering. Aversion and attraction. Thought of stealing bowl. War situation.

Suzuki Roshi, Enemies, Cultivation, Obstacles, Emotions, Impermanence, Mahayana,...
Mar 09 2003
Green Gulch

Gratitude For This Practice

Serial: SF-04042

Sunday Lecture: Fear - fear is spawning ground for negative emotions. Attention to breath. How to work with difficult mental states. Walking and attention to breath. Busyness...

Anger, Emotions, training, Cultivation, Impermanence, Gratitude, Suzuki Roshi,...
Nov 24 2002
Green Gulch

October 10th, 2002, Serial No. 00973

Tassajara, Practice Period, Mill Valley, training, Rumi, Vows, Intimacy, Commitment,...
Oct 10 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04014

Summer intensive

Constancy, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Delusion, Lovingkindness, Letting Go, Doubt,...
Aug 02 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04013

Summer intensive

Demons, Hindrances, Delusion, Anger, Letting Go, Zazen, Doubt, Separation, Happiness...
Aug 01 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04005

Summer intensive

Emotions, Separation, Karma, Lineage, Delusion, Don't Know Mind, Hate, Greed,...
Jul 28 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04028

Summer intensive

Separation, Emotions, Daily Life, Letting Go, confusion, true dharma, Buddha...
Jul 26 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-03954

Summer intensive

Separation, Emotions, Six Realms, Hate, Soto Zen, Instruction, Karma, Duality, Daily...
Jul 21 2002
City Center

Way-seeking Mind

Serial: SF-04024

Tanto job, informal very ZC (?)

Suzuki Roshi, Letting Go, Doubt, Daily Life, Practice Period, Tassajara, confusion,...
Jun 12 2002
City Center

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