Music
The Diamond Method for Music offers a totally new understanding of the relationship between music and health. More importantly, it gives us unprecedented insight into how we can use music to benefit ourselves and society in general.
Music is central to Dr. Diamond's approach to holistic health, and he has written several important books which are essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.
Short, informal talks, revealing different facets of Dr. Diamond's unique approach to using music for healing.
The purpose of meditation, Zen master Dogen taught, was not to become the Buddha-Nature but to realize that we already are, that we always are.
I believe in distant healing: that a sufferer can be helped by a healer directing Spirit to him, however physically separated they may be.
And I believe that the healer is but a channel for the Spirit: invoking It into himself, concentrating It, then focusing It and directing It out into the sufferer.
And I believe
At some level – superficial, shallow or deep – every work of art still transmits the basic problems of life, for example, the fear of death. For few persons have ever really overcome them, at the deepest level.
Therefore to listen to any music, contemplate any painting, feel any sculpture – and relate to any person
Think back to a time just a few thousand years ago. Talking, writing (such as it was) and music-making was with friends. Now it is usually with strangers.
Who am I writing this to? I don’t know you. And who am I? You don’t know me.
How differently, more openly and lovingly, we sing to friends than
The lifelong quest for Belovedness, for Perfection, for God is the attempt to regain the Feeling in the womb, where we were moved – lapped – by the breathing movements of the mother, the All Other.
A thing may be mysterious – and at a deep level every thing is. But a mysterious thing, however mysterious, is not the Mystery.
And no thing is more mysterious than Music. So mysterious, so very mysterious. Its essence, thankfully, forever beyond the assaults of the musicologist.
And although of itself not the Mystery, it is a
To truly proclaim, “I Love You,” you must first feel Beloved. So, “I know You Love Me” always precedes and leads to “I Love You.” Therefore, don’t think of giving love to the audience, but of receiving it from them. Then – and only then – can you give it. For true love is always