Expansion, Contraction and the Breath Cycle ~ Shinzen Young
By Shinzen Young Teachings ~ expandcontract
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Detect Expansion-Contraction in Breath**: One has to really detect expansive contractive movement force in the breath; it's not just okay if you focus on the breath that's expansion and contraction, you have to detect those flavors in it. [00:07], [00:30] - **Extend Breath Practice to All Senses**: You don't want to only do it with the breath forever because the idea is you want to eventually be able to detect this in all sensory experiences all time but the breath is a representative of this. [00:35], [00:50] - **Volumetric Breath Expansion-Contraction**: You can just focus on the volumetric expansion on the in-breath and the volumetric collapse on the out-breath so that would be one way you're alternating is frantic attraction in the sense of literally space getting larger or smaller. [01:00], [01:20] - **Force-Based Reversal in Breathing**: When you breathe in the muscles contract and the linings of the bronchi and so forth sort of get filled with a tug inward so there's actually a contractive force that's detectable and when you breathe out that releases so there's an expansive force so that reverses. [01:25], [01:45] - **Advanced Dual Breath Dynamics**: If you want to get fancy you can volumetrically expand and force wise contract on the in-breath and reverse that on the out-breath so you have both on the in-breath both on the out-breath but the roles of father and mother get reversed. [02:00], [02:20] - **Sasaki Roshi's Role-Flipping Analogy**: Sasaki Roshi says when father finds mother's native village and mother finds father's native village then father turns into mother and mother turns into father and they flip roles and that's the only way that they can come back. [02:30], [02:50]
Topics Covered
- How does breath reveal expansive and contractive forces?
- Why reverse volumetric and force polarities in breathing?
- What flips father and mother roles in breath practice?
- How does breath training sensitize other senses?
Full Transcript
one has to really detect expansive contractive movement force it's not just okay if you focus on the breath that's
expansion and contraction you have to detect those flavors in it and I wouldn't that you don't want to only do it with the breath forever because the
idea is you want to eventually be able to detect this in all sensory experiences all time but the breath is a represent a representative of this
there's three ways you can do it you can just focus on the volumetric expansion on the m and the volumetric collapse on the out-breath so that would be one way
you're alternating is frantic attraction in the sense of literally space getting larger or smaller you can reverse it
though when you breathe in the muscles contract and the linings of the bronc
bronchi and so forth sort of get filled with a tug inward so I remember I always
say in pressure or space or etc etc or force right so when you breathe in there's actually a contractive force
that's detectable and when you breathe out that releases so there's an expansive force so that reverses that's the opposite polarity of the volumetric expansion and contraction so one way you
can work with the breath expansive contractive wise is in breath is volumetric expansion out-breath is volumetric contraction volumetric pardon
my geese week it just means with respect to how big something is okay how you would measure the volume okay or so you can expand on the in contract on the out
or force wise you can contract on the end and expand on the out or if you want to get fancy you can volumetrically
expand and force wise contract on the end and reverse that on the out so you have a both on the end both on the out
but the the roles of father and mother get reversed and Sasaki Roshi says when
father finds mother's native village and mother finds father's native village then father turns into mother and mother turns into father okay and they flip
roles and that's the only way that they can come back etc etc so well you've got you you know whichever one you to call the native village okay but
there's if you want to call the volumetric thing sort of like surface and then the other thing debt deep right so you your surface expands on the
in-breath the depths contract on the in-breath but then on the out-breath they flip rolls right the surface contracts but the out the inside the
muscles stretch so I that's probably part of what he's talking about but just a very small part what I find is that by
working with the breath that way which is readily available anybody can get almost anyone can get the volumetric expansion contraction
most people can detect the muscles you know doing the opposite I find that working that way with the breath sort of
sensitizes to the detection of similar phenomena in other sensory domains
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