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Breathing (respiration or ventilation) is the rhythmic process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to enable gas exchange with the internal environment, primarily to remove carbon dioxide and take in oxygen.

All aerobic organisms require oxygen for cellular respiration, which extracts energy from food and produces carbon dioxide as a waste product. External respiration (breathing) brings air to the alveoli where gases move by diffusion; the circulatory system then transports oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and the tissues.

In vertebrates with lungs, breathing consists of repeated cycles of inhalation and exhalation through a branched system of airways that conduct air from the nose or mouth to the alveoli. The number of respiratory cycles per minute — the respiratory or breathing rate — is a primary vital sign. Under normal conditions, depth and rate of breathing are controlled unconsciously by homeostatic mechanisms that maintain arterial partial pressures of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Keeping arterial CO₂ stable helps maintain extracellular fluid pH; hyperventilation andhypoventilation alter CO₂ and thus pH and produce distressing symptoms.

Breathing also supports speech, laughter and certain reflexes (yawning, coughing, sneezing) and can contribute to thermoregulation (for example, panting in animals that cannot sweat sufficiently).

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Birth Death

Practice, Breath, Time
May 13 2006

Sitting Zazen

Serial: SF-03488

Sesshin 3 Day 1

Zazen, Posture, Breath
Mar 23 2005
Tassajara

Big Mind

Serial: SF-03504

Sesshin 2 Day 2

Practice, Zazen, Breath
Feb 21 2005
Tassajara

Sink and Swim

Serial: SF-03561

Sesshin 1 Day 2

Practice, Breath, Time
Jan 26 2005
Tassajara

Workshop

Time, Practice, Breath
Feb 14 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Gratitude For This Practice

Serial: SF-04042

Sunday Lecture: Fear - fear is spawning ground for negative emotions. Attention to breath. How to work with difficult mental states. Walking and attention to breath. Busyness...

Breath, Anger, Time
Nov 24 2002
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Time, Breath, Practice
Oct 06 1991
Green Gulch Farm

Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Practice, Breath
Jun 15 1991
City Center

Sunday Lecture

Time, New Year, Breath
Dec 20 1987
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Time, Breath, difficulty
Sep 27 1987
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Practice, Mindfulness, Breath
May 24 1987
San Francisco Zen Center

Embracing Mindfulness Through Communal Practice

Serial: SF-03978

May be part of sesshin series

Time, Breath, Practice Period
Mar 05 1987
San Francisco Zen Center

Sesshin Lecture

Time, Breath, Equanimity
Mar 03 1987
San Francisco Zen Center

Awake in Every Living Moment

Serial: SF-04003

May be part of sesshin series

Time, Practice, Breath
1987
San Francisco Zen Center

Cultivating Presence In Lifes Garden

Breath, Time, Practice
1987
San Francisco Zen Center

Breathing

Breath, Practice, Zazen
Jul 1980
Unknown

Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson

Serial: SR-00069A

Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript (some changes made by SDH, July 2025)

Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...
Aug 09 1970
City Center

How To Have Sincere Practice

Serial: SR-00145

Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording.

Building, Community, Meditation, Obstacles, Interview, Silence, Breath
Apr 25 1970
A
City Center

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Aug 28 1969
Tassajara

untitled

Serial: SR-00007

Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer

Lotus Sutra, Monks, Breath, Building
Dec 24 1968
Sokoji

Take One Seat

Serial: SF-03025

Commercially produced cassette: Insight Meditation West - Spirit Rock Center, PO Box 909, Woodacre, CA 94973

Buddha, Breath, Practice
Spirit Rock

Breath as a Gateway to Mindfulness

Serial: SF-01076

(no date) 1991?

Breath, Zazen, Practice
Unknown

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275A

Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1

Forms, Silence, Obstacles, Lay, Bell, Continuous Practice, Consciousness, Breath...
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Unknown