“Sitting with Keats”
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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Facets of a Diamond – Blog
“Portrait Photography and Intimacy”
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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Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
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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“My Work: To Reveal the Ordinary as Instances”
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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“The Enlightened Musician”
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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Video: The Meditation Before I Paint
Before he makes each painting, Dr. Diamond always meditates, however briefly. And then it just happens spontaneously.
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“Photographing the Apparently Disordered”
We can photograph the “ordered woods and gardens” – as most do. I much prefer the apparently disordered – the rust, the “junk.” And, hopefully, through it the Higher Order.
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“With Every Photograph I Should Feel Love”
All that matters is love.
With every photograph I should feel loved and give it.
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Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
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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“The Goddess in the Home”
If we really believed our mothers deeply loved us – if we Knew their Souls – there would be little need to venture beyond her to the Unknown, no need to seek a goddess out There. For she would be as a goddess in the home.
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