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Consciousness Talks

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of a state or object, either internal to oneself or in one's external environment. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate among 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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Title Speaker

Three Characteristics of Phenomena

Serial: SF-01079

One-day sitting lecture: "no eyes, no ears..." Diamond Sutra, Platform Sutra

Time, Consciousness, Practice
May 19 2007
Green Gulch

Hokyo Zammai Class

Consciousness, Ego, Wisdom
Mar 06 2005
Tassajara

Hokyo Zammai Class

Consciousness, Ordinary Mind, Time
Jan 23 2005
Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture

Love, Practice, Consciousness
Oct 26 2003
Tassajara

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04016

Summer intensive

Time, Study, Consciousness
Jul 29 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04028

Summer intensive

Consciousness, Practice, Separation
Jul 26 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-04018

Summer intensive

Practice, Time, Consciousness
Jul 22 2002
City Center

Vasubandhu

Serial: SF-03954

Summer intensive

Study, Consciousness, Time
Jul 21 2002
City Center

Transmission of the Light Class

Serial: SF-01090

What enlightenment meant to the ancestors might be different than what it means to us, it's important to come to everyday events with a new outlook or view, Daitaka, we can...

Consciousness, Enlightenment, Buddha
Jun 04 2002
Green Gulch

Transmission of the Light Class

Serial: SF-01088

What brings us to these stories(?)? What is the unrest? What is the transmission of, how does the unrest be calmed (?), impermanence is that essential problem. Stories are what...

Buddha, Time, Consciousness
May 21 2002
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Time, Consciousness, Practice
Feb 06 2000
Green Gulch

January Practice Period Class

Time, Practice, Consciousness
Jan 11 2000
Green Gulch

Hevajra

Practice, Buddha, Consciousness
Apr 07 1988
SFZC

Consciousness - Fourth Type

Consciousness, Enlightenment, Nirvana
May 19 1973
Tassajara

Consciousness - Second and Third Types

Consciousness, Meditation, Buddha
May 18 1973
Tassajara

Discussions

Study, Consciousness, Meditation
May 17 1973
Tassajara

First Type of Consciousness

Consciousness, Karma, Buddha
May 16 1973
Tassajara

Consciousness

Consciousness, Karma, Buddha
May 15 1973
Tassajara

Discussions

Buddha, Freedom, Consciousness
May 13 1973
Tassajara

Abhidharma Psychology

Buddha, Consciousness, Time
May 13 1973
Tassajara

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275A

Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1

Forms, Silence, Obstacles, Lay, Bell, Continuous Practice, Consciousness, Breath...
A
Unknown

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275B

Alan Watts talk - session 2

Consciousness, Pain, heart, Forms, Hate, zen, Zoom, Obstacles, Ego, Lay
B
Unknown

Morning Service

Serial: SF-00016

Mid-Seventies

Emptiness, Suffering, Consciousness
City Center

Zen Embryo: Awakening Potential

Serial: SF-01005B

#clarify-speaker

Consciousness, Buddha, Zazen
Unknown

Veil of Thoughts

Time, Work, Consciousness
Unknown

The World of Consciousness

Serial: SF-03027B

#20

Time, Consciousness, Sambhogakaya
Unknown

Yogacara School

Serial: SF-03031B

#10

Buddhism, Buddha, Consciousness
Unknown

The World of Consciousness

Serial: SF-03042B

#8

Consciousness, Work, Time
Unknown

Pursuit of Pleasure

Serial: SF-03046A

#26

Ego, Time, Consciousness
Unknown

Aesthetics of Chinese and Japanese Art

Serial: SF-03029B

#6

Time, Consciousness, Work
Unknown

Taoism

Pain, Consciousness, Time
Unknown

The Joker

Consciousness, Time, Love
Unknown

The Joker Part 3

Serial: SF-03042A

#8

Time, Pain, Consciousness
Unknown