Breath Talks
Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into and out of 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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April 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00322 Breath, Buddha Nature, Delusion, Ego, lecture, Building |
Apr 02 1971 |
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April 1st, 1971, Serial No. 00320 Breath, Posture, Don't Know Mind, Instruction, Building, confusion, Delusion,... |
Apr 01 1971 |
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1971, Serial No. 00332 Breath, Observe, Interdependence, Emotions |
1971 |
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October 3rd, 1970, Serial No. 00222 Patience, Delusion, lecture, American, Breath, Anger, Emotions, Building, Ego,... |
Oct 03 1970 |
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Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb AndersonSerial: SR-00069-A Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript. Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,... |
Aug 09 1970 City Center |
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July 30th, 1970, Serial No. 00299 Bell, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, lecture, American, Instruction, Building... |
Jul 30 1970 |
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June 6th, 1970, Serial No. 00232 Dragons, Concentration, Breath, Enemies, Posture, Describe, Hate, lecture, Pain... |
Jun 06 1970 |
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How To Have Sincere PracticeSerial: SR-00145 Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording. Building, Community, Meditation, Zendo, Obstacles, Interview, Silence, Breath,... |
Apr 25 1970 A City Center |
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April 1st, 1970, Serial No. 00204 Anger, Concentration, Breath, Happiness, Meditation, Hate, Fox, Oneness, Pain... |
Apr 01 1970 |
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Practice Should Not Be Perfect, So Descendants Have Something To DoSerial: SR-00203 Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 4 Sesshin, Dogen, Building, difficulty, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Zazen, Breath... |
Dec 02 1969 Tassajara |
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Shosan CeremonySerial: SR-00213 Tassajara [Beginning of ceremony not recorded.] Sesshin, Shosan, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Breath, Death, Intuition, Lay, Bell,... |
Sep 1969 Tassajara |
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Some QuestionsQuestion-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara, Offering,... |
Aug 28 1969 Tassajara |
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June 30th, 1969, Serial No. 00018 Observe, Meditation, training, causation, Evil, Posture, Community, Religion, Karma,... |
Jun 30 1969 |
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February 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00009 Attachment, causation, realization, Consciousness, Breath, Happiness, Community,... |
Feb 25 1969 |
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untitledSerial: SR-00007 Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer Lotus Sutra, Monks, Breath, Building |
Dec 24 1968 Sokoji |
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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-13Serial: SR-00005 Fall 1968 Lotus Sutra, Wisdom, Monks, Sutra, Dana, Silence, Lay, Transmission, Karma, Breath,... |
Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 13 Tassajara |
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YYYY.01.29-serial.00016 Gratitude, causation, Dependent Origination, Oneness, Culture, Zazen, Breath, Enemies... |
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Introduction to Vajrayana, Serial 00041 Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, Ceremony, Subject-and-Object, Breath,... |
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Introduction to Vajrayana I, Serial 00042 Birth-and-Death, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, Ceremony, Subject-and-Object, Breath, Peace... |
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Manjushri Sapan, Serial 00062 Manjushri, true dharma, Bell, Dana, Delusion, Breath, Commitment, Renunciation,... |
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Manjushri Sapan Serial 00064 Impermanence, Mahayana, Separation, Breath, difficulty, confusion, Manjushri, Enemies... |
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Seminar on TaoismSerial: SR-00275-A Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1 Forms, Silence, Echo, Obstacles, Describe, Lay, Bell, Continuous, Consciousness,... |
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