Meditation

  • Dr. Diamond’s Books on Meditation

    Two ground-breaking books: The Diamond Color Meditation and Stillpoints.

  • “At the End of my Daily Meditation”

    Every day at the end of my meditation I sing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, you all.

  • “Freud: Meditation vs. Self-Analysis”

    It seems to me that the tragedy of Freud is that knowing his deep inner shall I say despair he chose what he called self-analysis rather than meditation: to find out what and why rather than Who?

  • “Placing the Pebbles at Peace”

    Two little pebbles, thrown at random – if random there be – onto a tray of sand.

    Place them at Peace – and you will be too.

    But how? Just ask them – from your heart.

    (2012)

  • “My Mother as Raku”

    The essence of the Japanese tea ceremony is the acceptance of the As Is: to attain a state of detachment transcending judgement, when things, people, all events, all of existence, are accepted just as they are.

    And this is through the recognition of the unique, yet universal, Thusness of every thing, of every person. Starting with

  • “Thanking the Great Spirit”

    Just before bed, I thank the Great Spirit, dear Mother of All, for all Her gifts of the day. And I find myself smiling.

    I’m smiling to Her as She smiled on me.

    (2002)

  • “Meditation: Linking in with Guidance”

    Meditation, active and passive, is a means of linking in with Guidance from the Spirit World.

    Yes, we are always linked in, so I am led to believe, for all activity, physical and mental, is as Guided. But as one Guide has put it, “The more you are aware of Guidance, the more

  • “Every Problem a Pebble”

    The great Confucian philosopher Mencius stated – and I’m sure believed – that love is basic to our nature as it is the nature of water to flow downhill.

    Every problem is a pebble, perhaps a rock, impeding the natural flow of chi, of our human nature, through us.

    (January 2017)

  • “The Role of Meditation in My Day”

    I start each day with two forms of meditation. One is quiet. The other is active: say, painting, writing or singing.

  • “The Golden Chakra of Love”

    Imagine that streaming into and out from your umbilicus is a chakra of the highest Energy, of the purest Love. Tightly concentrated, little thicker than a pencil. Rich, strong, radiant gold. Not just the color of gold – but gold itself transcending its physical substrate.

    This was the highest link, the spiritual, between you and your