Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • March 12, 2023

    What is Beethoven to medicine? And the Buddha, and Shankara, and Raphael, and Blake, and Monteux, and Euripides.

  • March 9, 2023

    Imagine, if you can, a world without birthing trauma: no misprocessing, everyone aware of their Buddha-Nature and so living in love. A world of homo supra-sapiens.

    That must be Heaven!

  • March 5, 2023

    The surgeon asks me how he can incorporate photography into his practice. I tell him: Make photography your Karma Yoga, your action meditation to become one with your Soul, and so with every Soul.  In so doing you will become a healer.

  • March 2, 2023

    There is but one Guidance for all beings; that is, for all spirits within all beings – now and throughout time.

    One Guidance. One spirit. One being.

  • February 28, 2023

    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.

  • February 26, 2023

    The ethereal chi should be welcomed into the body and then flow freely throughout, energizing all organs, muscles and tissues. Any impediment to the meridian flow reduces the Life Energy, inhibits the deep desire to Live, to Love.

  • February 23, 2023

    Accepting all that others do to me as coming through them, as the Karmic Plan. All being, in this sense, acts of God. And all not for me but for the spirit within me.

    I accept all for the spirit within.

    (Well, not in fact – but at least in fantasy.)

    Note:

  • February 19, 2023

    The suffix -phor means to carry. Hence metaphor, to carry beyond (meta meaning beyond). And from the root ESU, to be well, the Greeks derived euphoros, a feeling of great happiness, of well being. Hence our euphoria.

  • February 16, 2023

    In a large Shin temple dedicated to Amida Buddha, there is displayed a painting of black lines on white in what seems like the seeming randomness of a Jackson Pollock.

  • February 14, 2023

    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.