Facets of a Diamond – Blog
December 2, 2021
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.”
Read More » November 30, 2021
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.
Read More » November 28, 2021
Crystals are Made to resonate.
I remember, for instance, crystal radio sets, and the ship-to-ship radio transmitter on my father’s boat, Hourglass, into which specific crystals were inserted for the designated frequency.
Read More » November 25, 2021
When they perform fractal analysis of Jackson Pollock's paintings, a remarkable discovery is made. Lo and behold! The paint drippings and tossings are not random. (No more than were the Chinese paint flingings over a millennium ago.) There is an underlying order and purpose. A plan.
Read More » November 23, 2021
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.
Read More » November 21, 2021
In 1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled “The Poetics of Music.”
I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards.
Read More » November 18, 2021
There are not six billion Buddha-Natures...
Read More » November 16, 2021
Dr. Diamond eloquently shares his view of human consciousness. It consists of 3 layers: the conscious; the superficial unconscious of love and and hate; and, underneath everything, the Deep Unconscious - of pure love.
Read More » November 14, 2021
To paint can mean to apply cosmetics, to falsify.
"Let her paint an inch thick"
- Hamlet about his mother (5.1.184)
and
"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another ….. To a nunnery [brothel], go."
- Hamlet to Ophelia (3.1.142)
Read More » November 11, 2021
In the psychiatry journals, many advertisements for drugs. But none for Compassion, for Caring – for Healing.
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