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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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Three Characteristics of PhenomenaSerial: SF-01079 One-day sitting lecture: "no eyes, no ears..." Diamond Sutra, Platform Sutra Time, Consciousness, Practice |
May 19 2007 Green Gulch |
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Hokyo Zammai Class Consciousness, Ego, Wisdom |
Mar 06 2005 Tassajara |
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Hokyo Zammai Class Consciousness, Ordinary Mind, Time |
Jan 23 2005 Tassajara |
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Sesshin Lecture Love, Practice, Consciousness |
Oct 26 2003 Tassajara |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-04016 Summer intensive Time, Study, Consciousness |
Jul 29 2002 City Center |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-04028 Summer intensive Consciousness, Practice, Separation |
Jul 26 2002 City Center |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-04018 Summer intensive Practice, Time, Consciousness |
Jul 22 2002 City Center |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-03954 Summer intensive Study, Consciousness, Time |
Jul 21 2002 City Center |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: 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 |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: 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 |
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Sunday Lecture Time, Consciousness, Practice |
Feb 06 2000 Green Gulch |
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January Practice Period Class Time, Practice, Consciousness |
Jan 11 2000 Green Gulch |
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Hevajra Practice, Buddha, Consciousness |
Apr 07 1988 SFZC |
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Consciousness - Fourth Type Consciousness, Enlightenment, Nirvana |
May 19 1973 Tassajara |
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Consciousness - Second and Third Types Consciousness, Meditation, Buddha |
May 18 1973 Tassajara |
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Discussions Study, Consciousness, Meditation |
May 17 1973 Tassajara |
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First Type of Consciousness Consciousness, Karma, Buddha |
May 16 1973 Tassajara |
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Consciousness Consciousness, Karma, Buddha |
May 15 1973 Tassajara |
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Discussions Buddha, Freedom, Consciousness |
May 13 1973 Tassajara |
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Abhidharma Psychology Buddha, Consciousness, Time |
May 13 1973 Tassajara |
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Seminar on TaoismSerial: SR-00275A Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1 Forms, Silence, Obstacles, Lay, Bell, Continuous Practice, Consciousness, Breath... |
A Unknown |
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Seminar on TaoismSerial: SR-00275B Alan Watts talk - session 2 Consciousness, Pain, heart, Forms, Hate, zen, Zoom, Obstacles, Ego, Lay |
B Unknown |
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Morning ServiceSerial: SF-00016 Mid-Seventies Emptiness, Suffering, Consciousness |
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Zen Embryo: Awakening PotentialSerial: SF-01005B #clarify-speaker Consciousness, Buddha, Zazen |
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Veil of Thoughts Time, Work, Consciousness |
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The World of ConsciousnessSerial: SF-03027B #20 Time, Consciousness, Sambhogakaya |
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Yogacara SchoolSerial: SF-03031B #10 Buddhism, Buddha, Consciousness |
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The World of ConsciousnessSerial: SF-03042B #8 Consciousness, Work, Time |
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Pursuit of PleasureSerial: SF-03046A #26 Ego, Time, Consciousness |
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Aesthetics of Chinese and Japanese ArtSerial: SF-03029B #6 Time, Consciousness, Work |
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Taoism Pain, Consciousness, Time |
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The Joker Consciousness, Time, Love |
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The Joker Part 3Serial: SF-03042A #8 Time, Pain, Consciousness |
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