Photography
Dr. Diamond discusses the importance of looking deeper, into the Soul – the Buddha-nature – of whatever you are photographing, even the supposedly “inanimate.”
One of the Photography for Healing video series.
See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.
The thymus changes atmospheric chi, via the breath, into the electromagnetic chi that flows through our acupuncture system. Dr. Diamond suggests an awareness of it can help the Life Energy of the photographer.
One of the Photography for Healing video series.
I’ve searched for years for the appropriate word of that which I photograph.
“Subject” makes it inferior, under me.
“Object” too cold, unfeeling.
No matter
how many pictures
I take,
the tree’s love
is never diminished.Nature
is ever-abundant.The Photographer as Healer must first have found God in himself to then find God in the subject.
Every photographic subject, however allegedly non-sentient, has its Spirit, its Thusness – what the Buddhists call Tathata.
Every photograph should be, in a sense, a picture of Arcadia – “an area of central Greece whose inhabitants legendarily enjoyed their music and dancing undisturbed by war and toil."
A basic role of the photographer as healer: to proclaim for us that this rock, this tree, whatever, is Spirit as matter. That we may Know this of ourselves, and then of all.