Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Being, thankfully, computer ignorant, I've only recently come across the term “default setting.”
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 The Analects, Confucius speaks thus of The Book of Songs (compiled sometime after 600BC): “If out of the three hundred Songs, I had to take one phrase to cover all my teaching, I would say, 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'”
Dr. Diamond pays tribute to his close colleague, the great Australian psychiatrist Ainslie Meares (1910-86). Like Diamond, Meares gave up conventional medicine and became a teacher of meditation. In this heartfelt talk, Diamond discusses their friendship, and how Meares' pioneering work compares with his own.
I’m thinking – asking – what to do to help a sufferer in deep anguish. Around me hundreds of trees, infinite leaves.
There can be no wrong notes, for all is Intended. It's just that some are judged wrong (and that's also as Intended).
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.
To sublimate my individual attempts at healing sufferers into broader general areas hopefully to then be of help to more.
The last line of probably the last poem of Su Tung-p'o (1037-1101), knowing he was soon to die: “Beyond treetops I see the slant of a bridge.”
Dr. Diamond sees meditation not just as an isolated activity, but as a way of going through the whole of life. Its basic purpose is to help us find our mother's love for us. This brilliantly original and inspirational talk offers an excellent introduction to Diamond's higher philosophy.