[Part One of this Series: Click HERE]   To the ancient Tantric mystics, on average, a simple breath—inhale and exhale—takes about 4 seconds. That would mean you take about 15 breaths per minute. That would mean you take about 900 breaths per hour. That would mean in half a day, 12 hours, you take about 10,800 breaths. So to the ancient Tantrics, the number 108 can be used to represent the number of breaths you take in half a day. If you say a prayer 108 times, it's symbolic of praying for half a day. A set of Tantric prayer beads, known as a mala, used to count prayers (and adopted by Hindus) contains 108 beads (plus one more as a marker). To say prayers while