Ordinary Mind Zen School Organic Intelligence
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Feb 22, 2022 A reflection on intelligence flowing through cells, organisms, trees and ecosystems. A challenge to mechanistic science and the idea of separate objects. Connections between quantum ideas, brain hemispheres, and embodied attention are explored. The talk highlights how a shift in attention can dissolve ego separateness and reveal the extraordinary in ordinary moments.
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Opening With Rain To Ground The Talk
- Geoff Dawson opens by inviting listeners to pause and feel the rain, using a simple sensory moment as practice.
- He describes the ordinary act of listening to rain as heart-warming and grounding for a Dharma talk.
Life Is A Flow Not A Collection Of Things
- Life is best understood as a dynamic flow rather than isolated, static things.
- Geoff Dawson cites Ian McGilchrist and quantum ideas to argue organisms and ecosystems are interwoven processes, not mechanical parts.
Right Hemisphere Sees Wholeness Left Makes Things
- The two brain hemispheres offer different worldviews: left reduces and categorises while right perceives wholes and connection.
- Dawson links McGilchrist's neuroscience to Dharma, suggesting right-hemisphere attention reveals interconnection and novelty.
