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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, computer science and philosophy. 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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Tokubetsu Sesshin

Faith, Ceremony, Big Mind, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Gratitude, Lay...
Mar 28 1995

To Be Oneself

Serial: SF-00157

Sunday talk; what does that mean - what's that? Finding out what this means is a vast undertaking.

Conversation, Practice Period, Dragons, Lay, New Year, Separation, Skandas, Emotions...
Jan 15 1995
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Practice Period, Commitment, Letting Go, Suzuki Roshi, Greed, Emotions, confusion,...
Nov 27 1994
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Ceremony, Practice Period, Four Noble Truths, Funeral, Fox, Bell, Six Realms, Demons...
Oct 30 1994
Green Gulch Farm

Buddhism and American Culture

Emptiness, Forgiveness, Letting Go, Samadhi, Emotions, Freedom, Four Noble Truths,...
May 03 1993
City Center

Embracing Zen Through Community

Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Intimacy, Posture, Zazen, Ceremony, Composure,...
Sep 18 1991

Fear

Emptiness, Mindfulness, Right Speech, Don't Know Mind, Commitment, Anger,...
Aug 05 1991
City Center

Emotions That Sweep Us Away

Serial: SF-03967

Sunday Lecture

Practice, Anger, Emotions
Jan 16 1991
Green Gulch Farm

Obstacles as Pathways to Enlightenment

Obstacles, Anger, Doubt, Enemies, Dana, Emotions, Observe, Bell, Vow, Instruction...
Jul 23 1989

Sunday Lecture

Anger, Intention, Emotions
Oct 09 1988
Green Gulch Farm

Breathing Compassion into Suffering

Practice Period, confusion, Obstacles, Emotions, Letting Go, Passions, Instruction,...
Aug 03 1988

Pure Effort In Everyday Busy Life

Serial: BZ-00020

Saturday Lecture

Posture, New Year Celebration, Pure Effort, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period,...
Jan 02 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

The Human Encounter with Death

Death-and-Dying, Letting Go, Demons, Conversation, Emotions, Faith, Enthusiasm,...
Oct 11 1981
1 and 2 of 3
City Center

The Four Truths

Happiness, Four Noble Truths, Religion, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Gratitude,...
Oct 21 1979

Shosan Ceremony

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

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, Emotions, Buddha Nature, Discrimination,...
Jul 30 1965
D
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, Faith...
Jul 29 1965
C
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

The Philosophy of Nature

Serial: SF-03048A

Importance of Space

Sixth Patriarch, Silence, Interdependence, Heart Sutra, Emotions, Emptiness, Birth-...
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