Extracted from the website of Association Bouddhiste Vajrayana en France and translated (「心」「腦」) into English:
‘Heart’ ‘Brain’
Rinpoche first discoursed on 3rdApril, 1994
Rinpoche repeated it at the Vajrayana Association(France) in October, 1994
Uploaded to the Website on 8th October, 2014 (after about 20 years)
Introduction
There are about 14 billion nerve cells in the cerebrum of a human brain while there are around 20 million RNA molecules (for transmitting DNA, the hereditary factor) in a nerve cell; a RNA molecule can deal with one million pieces of information or memories. By this reckoning, a human brain can handle about 1000 trillion units of information, learning and memories in a lifetime.
Some scientists have pointed out that this amount is only the lowest estimation, one is supposed to be able to raise the original units of workload for 1 billion times.
| Note: | |||
| 1. | ‘Trillion’ is a Chinese numeral. It represents one the following three amounts in different systems respectively. They are: | ||
| ● | A million (1,000,000) | ||
| ● | A trillion (1,000,000,000,000) | ||
| ● | Ten quadrillion (10,000,000,000,000,000) | ||
| 2. | In general, | |
| Ten million | = 10,000,000 (7 zeros) | |
| A hundred million | = 100,000,000 (8 zeros) | |
| A trillion | = 1,000,000,000,000 (12 zeros) | |
| Content | |
| 1. | The average life-span of a human’s life is 60 years old while one can only process 30 trillion units of information and memories in one’s lifetime in which the amount is much lower than the estimated 1000 trillion. The reason why there is a limit for mankind is that human on average can only put about 2 to 3% of the brain cells to be used though some brain experts believe that it could be of a ratio of 1/8 (approximately 12% which is a few times more than the original 3%). Why is human unable to boost the using rate of their brains? This involves the problems of the ‘Heart’. A human’s heart can merely manage to exploit about 2 or 3% of the potential of the brain. |
| 2. | Take for example when there are not many vehicles running on an expressway, the traffic is very smooth all the way. However, with the control of access and the procedures of handing in toll fee, there will be the emergence of blocked and crowded phenomena. This is similar to the case when a human’s heart is suffering from suppression as well as under the entanglement of disputes. |
| 3. | On the other hand, persons who are exceptionally clever in mind also seem to be rather intrepid in the processing capability of their hearts. In the eyes of ordinary people, this kind of people has already detached themselves from the normal course. Learning as well as handling information and memories in one’s lifetime, a person spends only about 3% of all his/her brain-cell capacity. As we are both suffering from suppression at heart (in mind) as well as perplexing by incidents that involved disputes and entanglements, we are unable to exert our brain capacities to their full. Consequently, the state of limitations comes into being. The restlessness in society at the moment does not only make one have the feeling of dread, but also causes one to suffer from functional disturbance in both the cardiac cycle and the automatic nerves. Moreover, there is also a gradual increase in all sorts of illnesses that are related to the physical body or mental psychology (mental disease) in the modern society. |
| 4. | In simple terms, promoting one’s heart-competency is the fundamental and unique way to boost one’s brain power. |
Conclusion
Chanting mantra can open one’s Heart Chakra as well as untie the barriers inside one’s brain. Thus, the 1000 trillion learning and memory system and memory warehouse can thereby be brought into play.
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