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.
Title | Speaker | |
---|---|---|
October 1972 talk, Serial No. 00337 Concentration, realization, Hate, Breath, lecture, Patience, Oneness, confusion,... |
Oct 1972 |
|
June 10th, 1972, Serial No. 00475 Perfect Wisdom, Commitment, Pain, Breath, Bell |
Jun 10 1972 |
|
June 4th, 1972, Serial No. 00471 Shikantaza, Buddha Nature, Breath, Karma, Compassion |
Jun 04 1972 |
|
May 17th, 1972, Serial No. 00465 War, Lineage, Peace, Vows, Breath |
May 17 1972 |
|
May 13th, 1972, Serial No. 00464 Breath, Bodhidharma, Truth, causation, Koan |
May 13 1972 |
|
May 9th, 1972, Serial No. 00462 Bodhidharma, Breath, Attachment, Mahayana, Koan |
May 09 1972 |
|
January 30th, 1972, Serial No. 00191 Breath |
Jan 30 1972 |
|
September 23rd, 1971, Serial No. 00275 Birth-and-Death, Posture, Constancy, Hate, Precepts, Breath, Happiness, Meditation,... |
Sep 23 1971 |
|
September 21st, 1971, Serial No. 00057 Evil, Precepts, Concentration, Mahayana, Breath, Happiness, Hate, Suffering,... |
Sep 21 1971 |
|
OLD - 1971.08.07-serial.00176Serial: SR-00176 First words match 71-08-17 Breath, Death, Faith |
Aug 17 1971 |
|
OLD - 1971.08.17-serial.00085Serial: SR-00085 This is a continuation of 71-08-17, 00177 Death, Greed, Breath, Monks |
Aug 17 1971 |
|
OLD - 1971.08.17-serial.00098Serial: SR-00098 Duplicate of 00177 Big Mind, Breath, Buddha Nature, American |
Aug 17 1971 |
|
OLD - 1971.08.17-serial.00099Serial: SR-00099 The last part of 71-08-17, edited together with 00177 and 00085. Breath, confusion |
Aug 17 1971 |
|
Why We Must Have RulesFirst Principle, Family Practice, Big Mind, Bell, Breath, lecture, Sutra, Observe... |
Aug 17 1971 Tassajara |
|
August 14th, 1971, Serial No. 00046 Breath, Buddha Mind, Delusion, Addiction, Concentration, Building |
Aug 14 1971 |
|
Questions and AnswersQuestion-and-Answer, Yakusan, Truth, Community, Breath, Anger, Freedom, Faith... |
Aug 08 1971 Tassajara |
|
Zen Is Actually, In Short, Maybe, Communication Breath, Interview, Bell, Community, Describe, Wisdom, American, Truth |
Aug 07 1971 Tassajara |
|
OLD - 1971.08.05-serial.00169Serial: SR-00169 Second part of talk from this date. Duplicate of 00097 Breath, Balance, War, American, Faith, Truth |
Aug 05 1971 |
|
Good Confidence In Your PracticeBodhidharma, First Principle, Bell, Wisdom, Breath, Building, American, Faith... |
Aug 05 1971 Tassajara |
|
On Bodhidharma's Day Nirvana, Dragons, Breath, Ceremony, Enemies, Building, Faith |
Aug 04 1971 Tassajara |
|
OLD - 1971.08.04-serial.00120Serial: SR-00120 Second part of talk from this date. Breath, Faith, Discrimination, Culture, Monks, American, reality, Death, Truth... |
Aug 04 1971 |
|
OLD - 1971.08.03-serial.00185Serial: SR-00185 Second part of talk from this date. Describe, Dragons, Breath, Freedom, Death |
Aug 03 1971 |
|
To Attain The Perfection Of Human PracticeCeremony, First Principle, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, Building, Breath, Evil, Doubt,... |
Jul 30 1971 Tassajara |
|
Blue Cliff Records 61 - Fuketsu's One Particle Of DustBlue Cliff Record, Breath, Constancy, Freedom, Faith, Diversity, Greed, Religion,... |
Jul 26 1971 Tassajara |
|
Virtue of Mountain and RiverDogen, Shobogenzo, First Principle, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Faith, Breath, sitting, Pain,... |
Jul 24 1971 Tassajara |
|
Something Which You Cannot Understand sitting, reality, Buddha Nature, Truth, Happiness, Breath, lecture |
Jul 21 1971 Tassajara |
|
One with EverythingSerial: SR-00208 Zazen Talk Breath, reality, Faith, Truth |
Jul 20 1971 Tassajara |
|
June 26th, 1971, Serial No. 00253 Impermanence, Attachment, Intention, Ego, stubbornness, Passions, Breath, Happiness,... |
Jun 26 1971 |
|
June 17th, 1971, Serial No. 00251 Lotus Sutra, Happiness, difficulty, Buddha Nature, Oneness, Breath, Lay, realization... |
Jun 17 1971 |
|
Calmness of MindSerial: SR-00151 Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Practice is to expose yourself as you are, express yourself fully. Accepting your teacher's words.... Sesshin, Zazen, Breath, Community, Emptiness, Priest, Pain, Community, heart, Hate,... |
Jun 07 1971 City Center |
|
May 11th, 1971, Serial No. 00295 Breath |
May 11 1971 |
|
May 8th, 1971, Serial No. 00293 Concentration, Right Effort, Instruction, Pain, Composure, Mindfulness, Observe,... |
May 08 1971 |
|
May 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00333 training, Breath, Offering, Pain, Demons, Instruction, Composure, Interdependence,... |
May 05 1971 |
|
May 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00334 Hate, Interdependence, Tassajara, Breath, Attachment, training, Pain |
May 05 1971 |
|
May 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00294 Breath, Oneness, training, Right Effort, Echo, Emotions, Discrimination,... |
May 03 1971 |
|
April 27th, 1971, Serial No. 00331 Breath, Compassion, Observe, Posture, Buddha Nature, Consciousness, Precepts, Silence... |
Apr 27 1971 |
|
April 25th, 1971, Serial No. 00330 Breath, Perfect Wisdom, Describe, Building, Instruction, Tassajara, Lay, Ceremony,... |
Apr 25 1971 |
|
April 4th, 1971, Serial No. 00324 Breath, difficulty, Consciousness, Buddha Nature, training, Obstacles, Posture,... |
Apr 04 1971 |
|
April 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00323 Breath, Mindfulness, stubbornness, Don't Know Mind, Evil, Bell, Ego, Happiness... |
Apr 03 1971 |
|
April 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00321 Breath, Posture, Buddha Nature, Evil, Instruction, Meditation, lecture |
Apr 02 1971 |
|
April 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00322 Breath, Buddha Nature, Delusion, Ego, lecture, Building |
Apr 02 1971 |
|
April 1st, 1971, Serial No. 00320 Breath, Posture, Don't Know Mind, Instruction, Building, confusion, Delusion,... |
Apr 01 1971 |
|
1971, Serial No. 00332 Breath, Observe, Interdependence, Emotions |
1971 |
|
October 3rd, 1970, Serial No. 00222 Patience, Delusion, lecture, American, Breath, Anger, Emotions, Building, Ego,... |
Oct 03 1970 |
|
OLD - Restore the Buddhist Teaching in its Original WaySerial: SR-00070 Sunday Evening, August 16, 1970 [The first part of the lecture was not recorded.] Faith, Describe, Breath, Enemies, American, Observe |
Aug 16 1970 A City Center |
|
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 |
|
OLD - 1970.08.07-serial.00168 Buddha Nature, American, Breath, Describe, Evil, heart, Building, Death |
Aug 07 1970 |
|
July 30th, 1970, Serial No. 00299 Bell, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, lecture, American, Instruction, Building... |
Jul 30 1970 |
|
June 6th, 1970, Serial No. 00232 Dragons, Concentration, Breath, Enemies, Posture, Describe, Hate, lecture, Pain... |
Jun 06 1970 |
|
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 |