Facets of a Diamond – Blog

I was standing outside a Shingon Temple with my dear friend, Hak-san, my otouto-san (my little brother – he's two months younger). With me, as always, my beloved Nikon-san – but I took no photographs. Too much, I cannot Feel its Thusness. Not subtle – not haiku.

Do we not all agree that all we do is the result of brain functioning; and that. if our brain functioning is distorted, then our thoughts and actions will be, too.

There are two approaches to holism: the synthetic - the building up into the whole; and its opposite, the analytic - the breaking down of the whole into its components. Most people, and society generally, tend to analysis at the expense of synthesis, a problem with ultimate roots in the mother-child relationship.

Holding the twig “just-so.” The Japanese is sono-mama which naturally I particularly like because of the mama.

As I look around me, at this microcosm of the macrocosm, there is seeming chaos.

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.

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?