Consciousness Talks

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate by 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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The Four Establishments Of Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Shikantaza, Consciousness, Concentration, Mahayana
Jun 18 2021

The Five Skandhas

Consciousness, Heart Sutra, Zazen Mind, Avalokiteshvara, Money
Jun 05 2021

Jhanas and Shikantaza Arhats

Serial: BZ-02189

Shuso ceremony, Sesshin Day 5

Intuition, Shikantaza, Consciousness, Intuition, Karma, Repentance, Birth-and-Death,...
Jun 19 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Zazengi

Serial: BZ-00086A

Ego and Consciousness, Saturday Lecture

Zazengi, Consciousness, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Discrimination, Ego, Concentration,...
Aug 18 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Gratitude, Constant Practice and the Consciousnesses

Serial: BZ-00815A

Rohatsu Day 7

Gratitude, Consciousness, Gratitude, Big Mind, Ego, Buddha Nature, Aspects of...
Dec 09 1995
Berkeley Zen Center

Vijnana: Mind Consciousness

Serial: BZ-00706A

Manas, the Sixth Consciousness, Rohatsu Day 2

Consciousness, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Nature, Doubt, Dragons, Sixth Patriarch,...
Dec 02 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Buddha Bodies; Eight Consciousnesses

Serial: BZ-00705B

Rohatsu Day 1

Trikaya, Consciousness, Ego, Eight Aspects, Sixth Patriarch, Posture, Buddha Nature,...
Dec 01 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Six Factors of Consciousness

Serial: BZ-00371B

Sesshin Day 2

Consciousness, Monkey Mind, Doubt, Hindrances, Posture, Anger, Ego, Daily Life, Hate...
Mar 18 1989
Berkeley Zen Center

The Eight Janas and the Origins of Zen

Serial: BZ-00429A

One-Day Sitting

Consciousness, Happiness, Concentration, Pure Existence, Hindrances, zen meditation,...
Jul 20 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #80

Serial: BZ-00033

Does a Baby Have the 6th Consciousness?, Saturday Lecture

Consciousness, Storehouse Consciousness, Monastic Practice, Discrimination, Buddha...
Jul 31 1982
Berkeley Zen Center