Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • April 23, 2020

    The potential for recorded music to be healing is so much greater with loudspeakers than with headphones, for with headphones the air does not dance. Better still is music live, for then you can relate to the performer.

  • April 21, 2020

    Dr. Diamond discusses the importance of examining oneself and one’s life, especially in terms of then going on to help others.

    See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

  • April 19, 2020

    When I grew up, the trams in Sydney were double-ended, the unoccupied driver’s compartment at the rear. One morning three of us medical students – Kurt Wolf, older, worldly-wise, Morrie Rosenberg and me – were in a car behind a tram with a view of the rear compartment. In it we could see a couple – also medical students we knew. And were they ever billing and cooing!

  • April 16, 2020

    For his departing student, the Buddhist Master painted a perfect circle.

  • April 14, 2020

    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. They focus on themes central to Dr. Diamond’s work: health, healing, philosophy, the Arts, love and much more. Beautifully read by Dr. Diamond himself, these uplifting recordings are highly recommended for either regular listening or for incorporating into meditative activity.

  • April 9, 2020

    The purpose of Art should not be to shock, to confuse – but to reassure.

  • April 7, 2020

    Dr. Diamond discusses the importance of looking deeper, into the Soul – the Buddha-nature – of whatever you are photographing, even the supposedly “inanimate.”

    One of the Photography for Healing video series.

    See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

  • April 5, 2020

    Music as the Maternal Instinct. A mother doesn't lullaby to get love – but to give.

    Musicians, in contrast, are yearning to get – from the audience as the mother. Their music a cry for love. Listen to Beethoven – he is desperately seeking, not giving. They all are.

  • April 2, 2020

    What if we listeners knew, that the reason to listen to music is for us to be inspired to make it?

  • March 31, 2020

    Dr. Diamond has composed a large number of special therapeutic songs which he calls lilts. Like his original artwork and photography, his lilts are created with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the performer and his audience.