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Here is some Taoist texts dealing with the breathing technique-tory. "You need to be
installed in a separate room, close the doors, placed in a bed that has a flexible mat and
pillow-hada two and a half inches in height, lying with the body in proper direction, close
your eyes and hold the air in the diaphragm-ma-chest, so a hair placed over the nose and
mouth does not move (tchongki Tchen, Maspero, 203). An author from the late sixth
century, Li Ts 'ientch' eng, recommends "keeping acos-graph, hands and eyes closed,
hold your breath until you reach 200 and then recently expelled from inside the mouth
"(MASP-ro, 203). Retain the air, here the most important. After long exercise, is can get
to keep the air time
pp. 43-42; Dasgupta, Yoga as Philosophy and Religion, pp. 145-147; Rosel, Die
Grundlagen psychologischen, pp. 32-36, etc..
3, 5, 7, 9, breaths, then 12, 120, etc. To achieve immortality, it is necessary to retain the
air in the lungs by the breathing space of 1,000.
It is much harder to practice the technique for the "internal respiration", ie breathing
"embryonic". As this is purely internal, is not holding your breath in the manner of the
ancient Taoists. An example capital: "Every time we have plenty of time, after having
absorbed air, take a piece of quiet, uninhabited, undo her hair, loose clothing and lie
down, with the body in correct position, to stretch hands and feet not close (hands),
ensure that the mat is clean, the sides of which hang to the floor (...). Then ar-Moniz
breaths: when they encountered (each) instead (which corresponds viscera to each), tragar
(the air). until we hold so unbearable. Darkening the heart to not think (for the
Chinese, the organ of thought is the heart), let the air go where want, and when we will
be unbearable, mouth open and eject; just expelled the air, breathing is fast, harmonizing
breaths, after seven to eight puffs, its rate ra-calm quickly. Then restart again to melt the
air in the same way. If we have time to spare, stop after ten "foundry (...). We can not
melt the breathing every day, every ten or five days, if we have time, or if we feel that we
can not communicate, if the four members feel extremely hot, then jhagamoslo
"(Maspero, ps. 220-221 ).
Some of the results reached by this "embryonic breathing ria" similar "to the" powers
"yogis (siddhi). Then they can" to enter the water (without drowning) or walk on fire
(without burning) " assures us the famous treaty oral formulation is rapportant efficace et
secrete various procedures souffle d'absorb it (Mas-but, p. 222).
The retention of the air is particularly prominent in the cure of diseases in "(Maspero, p.
363). "It brings the breath, then down and held for as long as possible: meditating on the
diseased area, through thinking there is carried through the air and also thought it made
fighting the disease, tra-shoot force the passage blocked. When we can no longer hold the
air is expelled and is restarted from twenty to fifty times;
exercise should be stopped noticing the sweat covering the sick place. Is restarted daily at
midnight or five, the rate at the cure "(Maspero, p. 364).
In the neo-Taoist practices, the role of thought becomes more important. The "Discourse"
of SSEU-ma tch 'engcheng reminds us that "those who absorb the air (...) should follow
the think-ing when that comes into their guts, that the humours (of the viscera use) are
penetrated (by air), each (entrance-da) in accordance with (viscera), headed, so the air
may circulate throughout the body and cure all diseases ... "(But-but, p. 369) .
It is likely that at least in its neo-Taoist way, the discipline has suffered respiratory