No, we should not stop breathing.

In Jain Dharma, complete non-violence is the ideal, but life cannot be sustained without some unavoidable harm in ordinary bodily actions like breathing, walking, eating, or speaking. Jain ethics therefore teaches:

• Avoid intentional हिंसा as much as possible.
• Minimize harm in daily life.
• Reduce attachment, carelessness, and violence of thought, speech, and action.
• Practice samyak awareness and restraint, not self-destruction.

Breathing itself causes very subtle injury to living beings, but this is unavoidable for a worldly soul living in a body. Jainism does not ask us to stop breathing or stop living. Instead, it asks us to live with maximum vigilance, compassion, and restraint.

The deeper principle is:

• Unavoidable harm that comes from living is one thing.
• Intentional or careless harm is another.

So the goal is not to stop life, but to purify life through Ahimsa, self-control, and mindfulness.