Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Zhanran, from the Chinese Tiantai School of Buddhism, proclaimed that “even non-sentient beings have Buddha-nature.”
Alexander Pope “believed that the world was governed by a divine plan but it was not our lot to understand or even descry it."
As we listen to music, and move with it, we can become one with it. In this way, music has the potential to connect us with the ultimate truth: that all is one.
What if singing were also equally in- and out-breaths, so that the singer would wait at the end of every phrase for the breath to enter by itself?
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.
In this heartfelt exploration, Dr. Diamond discusses two types of love: that which exists in opposition to hate, and the Love which evokes no such opposite. Our standard conception of love is the first of these; and yet the yearning of our lives is for the latter.
From the root GHDHEM, of the earth, are derived humus, homo, human, humanity. Shipley points out that it was commonly held that abominable was also so derived, but this is not the case. So “abhominable” is not the correct spelling, even though it was used by earlier writers – by Shakespeare, for example, 18 times.
It's not mere play that I encourage, but what I call Aspirational Play. Play with a Higher Purpose.
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.