Facets of a Diamond – Blog
“To Paint from the Hara”
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“Not Wanting to Give Up Their Illness”
For years I had to use a faulty electric hand drier in the toilet of an office building I visit very frequently. Sometimes it would turn on when, as instructed, I placed my hands under the nozzle, or if I hit it – just so. But next time in the same place, it would not.
“What I Mean by Life Energy”
“Hakuin Ekaku: Meditation in the Midst”
Hakuin Ekaku, the great Zen master made his life statement with his final piece of calligraphy: “a giant character for ‘midst,’ with the inscription, ‘Meditation in the MIDST of action is a billion times superior to meditation in stillness.’”*
Action Meditation: the Soul at work.
* Ed. Sushila Blackman, Graceful Exits (New York: Weatherhill, 1997), p.
Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
“Our Life’s Work”
“Knowing Our Buddha-Natures”
If not for our birthing trauma, we would all Know – and live – our Buddha-Natures. To not Know It is our Fall, and our Karmic Task is to Rise above it.