Facets of a Diamond – Blog
October 26, 2021
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
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October 24, 2021
Remember when looking at photos of the Lascaux paintings that there was yet no written language.
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October 21, 2021
I used to finalize all my paintings, stopping when they appeared to be balanced.
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October 19, 2021
The repetitive patterns that naturally arise in playing the didgeridoo are, Dr. Diamond suggests, brain patterns that need to be released.
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October 17, 2021
A pigeon with one leg
hobbles over to him
– Knowing more than
the medical students.
How can they walk past
– and not Know?
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October 14, 2021
Portraits, I believe, should be up-close and personal. Hence my use of a short tele lens which shows the face – and especially the eyes, the windows of the subject's Soul. (And they should show the whole head, for cutting off the subject's head actuates in our unconscious the feeling that the person has been the victim of an attack.)
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October 12, 2021
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
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October 10, 2021
I have long felt very close to the poetry of Po Chu’i (778-846), the most popular poet of the T’ang dynasty, the great age of Chinese poetry.
Burton Watson writes of his “rapt appreciation of the ordinary,” which profoundly influenced not only the poets of China but also of Korea and Japan – including, I believe, the haiku poets.
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October 7, 2021
The purpose of meditation, Zen master Dogen taught, was not to become the Buddha-Nature but to realize that we already are, that we always are.
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October 5, 2021
Before he makes each painting, Dr. Diamond always meditates, however briefly. And then it just happens spontaneously.
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