Breath Talks
Breathing (or ventilation) is the process of moving air into and from the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.
All aerobic creatures need oxygen for cellular respiration, which extracts energy from the reaction of oxygen with molecules derived from food and produces carbon dioxide as a waste product. Breathing, or external respiration, brings air into the lungs where gas exchange takes place in the alveoli through diffusion. The body's circulatory system transports these gases to and from the cells, where cellular respiration takes place.
The breathing of all vertebrates with lungs consists of repetitive cycles of inhalation and exhalation through a highly branched system of tubes or airways which lead from the nose to the alveoli. The number of respiratory cycles per minute is the breathing or respiratory rate, and is one of the four primary vital signs of life. Under normal conditions the breathing depth and rate is automatically, and unconsciously, controlled by several homeostatic mechanisms which keep the partial pressures of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the arterial blood constant. Keeping the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the arterial blood unchanged under a wide variety of physiological circumstances, contributes significantly to tight control of the pH of the extracellular fluids (ECF). Over-breathing (hyperventilation) and under-breathing (hypoventilation), which decrease and increase the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide respectively, cause a rise in the pH of ECF in the first case, and a lowering of the pH in the second. Both cause distressing symptoms.
Breathing has other important functions. It provides a mechanism for speech, laughter and similar expressions of the emotions. It is also used for reflexes such as yawning, coughing and sneezing. Animals that cannot thermoregulate by perspiration, because they lack sufficient sweat glands, may lose heat by evaporation through panting.
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Chapter Three, Shoveling Dung Birth-and-Death, Confession-and-Repentance, Breath, resistance, Repentance, Lotus... |
Sep 14 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage |
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Generating Energy resistance, Patience, practicing generosity, Enthusiasm, Tassajara, Emotions, Breath... |
Mar 09 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage |
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Aug 21 2015 |
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Observing the Breathing Body and the Mind of No Abode Breath, zen meditation, Heart Sutra, cognitive process, Observe, Desire, Patience,... |
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SesshinSerial: BZ-02314 zazen, Sesshin Sesshin, Breath, Separation, Mundane Life, Oneness, Daily Life, Conversation, Posture... |
Jun 20 2013 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2012.07.29-serial.00137 Dharma Transmission, Breath, Bodhidharma, Passions, Manjushri, Happiness, difficulty... |
Jul 29 2012 |
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The Four Aspects of Practicing the Threefold Ethics of Bodhisattvas Bodhisattva Precepts, Breath, Enthusiasm, Mahayana, Commitment, confusion, Patience,... |
Feb 04 2012 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage |
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Zazen and the Seven Factors of EnlightenmentSerial: BZ-02227 Beneficial Attachment, One-Day Sitting Passive and Active Zazen
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Jan 21 2012 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Aug 13 2010 |
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Aug 12 2010 |
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Aug 11 2010 |
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Deep Faith in Cause and Effect has now become Deep Faith in Being a Sentient Being New Year, Silence, Birth-and-Death, Priest, Gratitude, japanese, Observe, confusion,... |
Dec 12 2009 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage |
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For a Sentient Being to be a Sentient Being is just not to Move Silence, Impermanence, Mindfulness, Manjushri, American, Breath, Karmic Consciousness... |
Nov 14 2009 Morning No Abode Hermitage |
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Oct 06 2008 |
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Entering and Embodying Truth Mindfulness, Enemies, Discrimination, Cultivation, zen meditation, Bodhisattva Vow,... |
Jul 15 2008 The Yoga Room |
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Embodying the Lotus Sutra Lotus Sutra, Discrimination, Silence, Breath, Culture, Evil, Desire |
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Mar 13 2008 The Yoga Room |
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Prajna ParamitaThe "Perfection of Wisdom" is the bodhisattva's understanding of emptiness, which is available to those who are settled in the conventional world. Discrimination, Lotus Sutra, Observe, practicing generosity, Breath, Buddha Nature,... |
Jul 14 2007 Afternoon No Abode Hermitage |
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The Light of Buddha's Wisdom - Precepts of CompassionBuddha sheds the light of wisdom on the true nature of suffering, liberation, and the human mind, on the teachings of compassion, moral causation, and the whole phenomenal universe. This retreat... Commitment, Letting Go, practicing generosity, Suzuki Roshi, resistance, japanese,... |
May 05 2007 Part 5 Mount Madonna Center |
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The Light of Buddha's Wisdom - Precepts of CompassionBuddha sheds the light of wisdom on the true nature of suffering, liberation, and the human mind, on the teachings of compassion, moral causation, and the whole phenomenal universe. This retreat... Evil, Darkness and Light, Light-and-Darkness, Anger, American, Desire, resistance,... |
May 04 2007 Part 1 Mount Madonna Center |
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2007.04.01-serial.00205 Subject-and-Object, Daily Life, Passions, Dependent Origination, Breath, Impermanence... |
Apr 01 2007 |
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Sutra on BreathingSerial: BZ-01210D One-Day Sitting Breath, Happiness, Four Foundations, Birth-and-Death, Mindfulness, Subject-and-Object... |
Jan 14 2006 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Breathing OutSerial: BZ-01186 Sesshin Day 2 Breath, Pure Existence, Renunciation, Buddha Nature, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Big... |
Sep 04 2005 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2004.09.26-serial.00176 Heart Sutra, Culture, Bell, Offering, Dependent Origination, Posture, Daily Life,... |
Sep 26 2004 |
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2003.02.20-serial.00165 Meditation, Sixth Patriarch, Dharma Transmission, Religion, Instruction, Breath,... |
Feb 20 2003 |
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2002.03.13-serial.00069 Posture, Don't Know Mind, Lay, Breath, Bodhidharma, zen, Beginners, Samsara,... |
Mar 13 2002 |
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2002.03.11-serial.00073 Impermanence, Lineage, New Year, Intuition, Teacher-and-Student, Buddha Ancestors,... |
Mar 11 2002 |
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BreathSerial: BZ-00101A Saturday Lecture Breath, Maylie Scott, Daily Life, Liberation, Harmonizing, Practice Period, Don'... |
May 19 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2001.02.04-serial.00052 Subject-and-Object, Posture, confusion, lecture, Zendo, Duality, Breath, Continuous,... |
Feb 04 2001 |
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Breath and PostureSerial: BZ-00085A One-Day Sitting Breath, Posture, Posture, Instruction |
Aug 06 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Breathing, Theravada/Zen SufferingSerial: BZ-00194B Sesshin Day 3 Breath, Theravada, Samadhi, Observe, Mundane Life, Attachment, Daily Life, Four... |
Sep 06 1999 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Breathing (Thich Nhat Hanh)Serial: BZ-00194A Sesshin Day 2 Breath, Thich Nhat Hanh, Four Foundations, Peace, Concentration, Happiness,... |
Sep 05 1999 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Full Awareness of Breathing SutraSerial: BZ-00108B Sesshin Day 2 Breath, Big Mind, Subject-and-Object, Mindfulness, Liberation, Four Foundations,... |
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