Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Drawing from his unique clinical experience, Dr. Diamond offers deep insights into marrying the player to his instruments, so to achieve music of the highest Life Energy. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.
Stay tuned for part two, coming next week!
I rest all of my work on what could be called a personification, a domestication, of Tolstoy's "kingdom of God." Here is how he ends his great treatise.
Ma Yuan, a painter of the Song dynasty, was called “One-corner Ma” because, in an attempt to render perspective, he would put the foreground figures in one corner
Dr. Diamond argues for the use of the hands rather than the baton in conducting. From the “Music for Healing” series of informal talks.
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I once visited the large estate of Mrs. Carlson, the widow of the inventor of Xerox. Many monks would visit there for its utter tranquility, which she herself radiated.
I asked her the secret of her deep Peace. She smiled: “Don’t read the newspapers.” And I did stop them – and the magazines and, of course, the TV.
“What’s the title of your painting?”, they ask me. Well, it’s like when I’m asked for a diagnosis. To me, the diagnosis is the sufferer’s name.
A free video by Dr. Diamond. A singer's unconscious fear of climactic high notes relates to the kidney acupuncture meridian, to sexual indecision.
I have long admired, been so inspired by, Juan Mascaro's translations of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads and the Dhammapada. In many ways, even more than the Works themselves by his Introductions. Now – unfortunately – discarded by Penguin Classics!
I wrote to his widow who very kindly sent me a little booklet of his, "A Star from the East, An Appreciation of the Bhagavad Gita." As a tribute to him, to his love of Mankind, here are some quotations from it.
Every photographic subject, however allegedly non-sentient, has its Spirit, its Thusness – what the Buddhists call Tathata.
“There is one part of the breath cycle that is right for every movement.” Dr. Diamond discusses a fundamental aspect of breathing and movement, and its application to fitness training, tennis, and movement in general.
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