Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • June 21, 2020

    Let’s consider that the baby in the womb has, at some level, a sense of awareness of about seven months – some five thousand hours, that’s some three hundred thousand minutes! And how many of those minutes is the amygdala at peace – and how many in a state of alarm?

  • June 18, 2020

    What could be more Extra-Ordinary?

  • June 16, 2020

    Dr. Diamond considers himself to be a teacher of meditation. He focuses here on his concept of active meditation - doing an activity with a sense of higher purpose - and its application to the entirety of our lives.

  • June 11, 2020

    With so many spirit guides I’ve been made aware of – it’s hard for me to say “I.”

  • June 9, 2020

    Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion - infused with spirituality.

  • June 7, 2020

    The very essence of Confucius, as propounded by Herbert Fingarette is “The Secular as Sacred.” Our word sacred is from the root SAK, to make holy – hence also sanctify, sanctuary and saint.

  • June 4, 2020

    I keep saying “I do this, I do that.”

  • June 2, 2020

    Matrophilia, the love of the mother, is a cornerstone of Dr. Diamond’s work and the basis of physical, mental, and spiritual health.

  • May 31, 2020

    A new word: Tendaify. The Japanese Buddhist sect of Tendai that originated in China as T’ien-tai, was brought to Japan by Saicho (767-822). Its central thesis is “the notion that the absolute is inherent in all phenomena, and that each separate phenomenon is but one manifestation of an unchanging reality.”

  • May 28, 2020

    Why am I doing this? I don't know.