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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December 6th, 1972, Serial No. 00358 Birth-and-Death, Patience, Obstacles, Conversation, Beginners, Suffering, Breath,... |
Dec 06 1972 |
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November 12th, 1972, Serial No. 00350 Attachment, Fasting, Consciousness, Bodhidharma, Funeral, Chanting, Posture, Breath,... |
Nov 12 1972 |
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October 1972 talk, Serial No. 00337 Concentration, realization, Hate, Breath, lecture, Patience, Oneness, confusion,... |
Oct 1972 |
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January 30th, 1972, Serial No. 00191 Breath |
Jan 30 1972 |
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September 23rd, 1971, Serial No. 00275 Birth-and-Death, Posture, Constancy, Hate, Precepts, Breath, Happiness, Meditation,... |
Sep 23 1971 |
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September 21st, 1971, Serial No. 00057 Evil, Precepts, Concentration, Mahayana, Breath, Happiness, Hate, Suffering,... |
Sep 21 1971 |
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Why We Must Have RulesFirst Principle, Family Practice, Big Mind, Bell, Breath, lecture, Sutra, Observe... |
Aug 17 1971 Tassajara |
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August 14th, 1971, Serial No. 00046 Breath, Buddha Mind, Delusion, Addiction, Concentration, Building |
Aug 14 1971 |
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Questions and AnswersQuestion-and-Answer, Yakusan, Truth, Community, Breath, Anger, Freedom, Faith... |
Aug 08 1971 Tassajara |
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Zen Is Actually, In Short, Maybe, Communication Breath, Interview, Bell, Community, Describe, Wisdom, American, Truth |
Aug 07 1971 Tassajara |
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Good Confidence In Your PracticeBodhidharma, First Principle, Bell, Wisdom, Breath, Building, American, Faith... |
Aug 05 1971 Tassajara |
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On Bodhidharma's Day Nirvana, Dragons, Breath, Ceremony, Enemies, Building, Faith |
Aug 04 1971 Tassajara |
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To Attain The Perfection Of Human PracticeCeremony, First Principle, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, Building, Breath, Evil, Doubt,... |
Jul 30 1971 Tassajara |
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Blue Cliff Records 61 - Fuketsu's One Particle Of DustBlue Cliff Record, Breath, Constancy, Freedom, Faith, Diversity, Greed, Religion,... |
Jul 26 1971 Tassajara |
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Virtue of Mountain and RiverDogen, Shobogenzo, First Principle, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Faith, Breath, sitting, Pain,... |
Jul 24 1971 Tassajara |
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Something Which You Cannot Understand sitting, reality, Buddha Nature, Truth, Happiness, Breath, lecture |
Jul 21 1971 Tassajara |
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One with EverythingSerial: SR-00208 Zazen Talk Breath, reality, Faith, Truth |
Jul 20 1971 Tassajara |
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June 26th, 1971, Serial No. 00253 Impermanence, Attachment, Intention, Ego, stubbornness, Passions, Breath, Happiness,... |
Jun 26 1971 |
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June 17th, 1971, Serial No. 00251 Lotus Sutra, Happiness, difficulty, Buddha Nature, Oneness, Breath, Lay, realization... |
Jun 17 1971 |
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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 |
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May 11th, 1971, Serial No. 00295 Breath |
May 11 1971 |
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May 8th, 1971, Serial No. 00293 Concentration, Right Effort, Instruction, Pain, Composure, Mindfulness, Observe,... |
May 08 1971 |
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May 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00333 training, Breath, Offering, Pain, Demons, Instruction, Composure, Interdependence,... |
May 05 1971 |
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May 5th, 1971, Serial No. 00334 Hate, Interdependence, Tassajara, Breath, Attachment, training, Pain |
May 05 1971 |
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May 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00294 Breath, Oneness, training, Right Effort, Echo, Emotions, Discrimination,... |
May 03 1971 |
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April 27th, 1971, Serial No. 00331 Breath, Compassion, Observe, Posture, Buddha Nature, Consciousness, Precepts, Silence... |
Apr 27 1971 |
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April 25th, 1971, Serial No. 00330 Breath, Perfect Wisdom, Describe, Building, Instruction, Tassajara, Lay, Ceremony,... |
Apr 25 1971 |
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April 4th, 1971, Serial No. 00324 Breath, difficulty, Consciousness, Buddha Nature, training, Obstacles, Posture,... |
Apr 04 1971 |
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April 3rd, 1971, Serial No. 00323 Breath, Mindfulness, stubbornness, Don't Know Mind, Evil, Bell, Ego, Happiness... |
Apr 03 1971 |
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April 2nd, 1971, Serial No. 00321 Breath, Posture, Buddha Nature, Evil, Instruction, Meditation, lecture |
Apr 02 1971 |