“What I Mean by Life Energy”
What do I mean by Life Energy? What have I always meant? Fifty years ago I saw those two patients – I see them still, so clearly.
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“Hakuin Ekaku: Meditation in the Midst”
Hakuin Ekaku, the great Zen master made his life statement with his final piece of calligraphy: “a giant character for 'midst,' with the inscription, 'Meditation in the MIDST of action is a billion times superior to
Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
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.
“Our Life’s Work”
I am given to believe that for each of us our life’s work, our individual Karma, is to find our Souls and then live accordingly. And, further, the Way may be to go not inside ourselves, but first outside – to our mothers.
“Knowing Our Buddha-Natures”
If not for our birthing trauma, we would all Know – and live – our Buddha-Natures. To not Know It is our Fall, and our Karmic Task is to Rise above it.
“Aesthetic Experience as Quickening”
The quickening: the mother’s first awareness of the baby within. And by capitalizing – Quickening – I am referring to the mother’s first awareness of the baby as spirit within her.
“The Karmic Game”
We have been dealt bigger brains – and, hence, birthing trauma. The Karmic Game is for us to use those brains, impaired as they are, to overcome their impairment.
Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond
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.
“A World Beyond Medicine”
What is Beethoven to medicine? And the Buddha, and Shankara, and Raphael, and Blake, and Monteux, and Euripides.
“A World Without Birthing Trauma”
Imagine, if you can, a world without birthing trauma: no misprocessing, everyone aware of their Buddha-Nature and so living in love. A world of homo supra-sapiens. That must be Heaven!