Facets of a Diamond – Blog

There is a Japanese saying about calligraphy and painting: Izen hitsugo, “Mind before, brush after.”

Dr. Diamond recounts how he helped a professional pianist overcome his antipathy to the music of Bach. A beautiful example of how music and life interconnect. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

“A hundred billion stars in our galaxy, hundreds of billions of galaxies beyond our own.”
–Richard Panek, The 4% Universe

And there’s the other 96% of which we know nothing – the so-called dark matter and dark energy.

All activities – including art, of course – are the result of Guidance. And the extent to which the artist’s ego intrudes is also Guided.

A remarkable example of altruism in music: the Hand-in-Hand Program at the Australian National University in Canberra. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

Simple
and Still,
and Infinite.

A dot is still and simple and infinite.

Consider a black dot – singular – on a sheet of white paper.

When the usual musician plays music, or sings it, or even dances to it – or even when just listening to it – he is constantly thinking of the notes. The notes that must be obeyed.

Dr. Diamond discusses the therapeutic power of this most simple of devices. From the “Art for Healing” series of informal talks.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

On a busy street the little boy has lost his mother. He runs towards one mother – then stops because she’s not her. And then another. And another. Becoming ever more desperate.

And then he sees her and runs to her – arms open, smiling.

Su Tung-p’o, the great painter and poet of the Song dynasty, stated that “To judge a picture by its resemblance is to have the critical faculty of a child.”