Menu
Sitemap
Pages
Posts by category
Category: Facets of a Diamond - Blog
“Our Karma: To Ignore Homer” “The Only Certain Happiness” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Every Breath a Tide” “The Role of the Artist” Video: The Tao, Yin & Yang, and Wen “The Spherenso of Existence” “My Best Teaching” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Gift of a Doll” “Can You See the Artist’s Soul?” “The Will of the Hand” Video: Transcending Psychiatry “The Spirit of the Rocks” “The Funnel, Never the Fuel” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “I Will Always Treasure Her Smile” “In Praise of Tolstoy” Video: “The Endum” “Soul-Pointing Not Bone-Pointing” “Belief in the Spirit World is Innate” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Medical Diagnosis as Bone-Pointing” Video: Japan – A Philosophy Beyond Words “A Name for My Artwork” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Thanks, I Needed That!” “Was Omar Khayyam born in a cabbage patch?” Video: Lung 1 – The Most Basic Acupuncture Point “Suzie, My Lovely Rose” “The surgeon tells me” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “No Not-Brahman” “To every doctor” “Music the Primal Art” “What was so wrong with the wood?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “At the Supermarket” “Start with Nature without Man” Video: Mood vs. Emotion – Part 2 “Music as Magic” “FEEL her love” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Etymology of ‘Soul'” “Our basic identity” Video: Mood vs. Emotion “In Gratitude to George Goodheart” “Is carving a rock desecration?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Healing: Advising or Imposing” “‘God’ is Easier” Video: Everyone Basically Wants to Heal “An Invocation” “When my mother lay dying” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Basic Teaching of Paracelsus and Blake” “I want to commune” Video: Three Types of Yoga “The Imagination and the Unconscious” “What sculptor?” “The True Nature of a Crystal” “Is there anywhere a recording?” Video: Yoga – Union with the Mother “The Beloved Zygote” “This country is defending itself” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Anlage of All Fear” “What Could Be More Extra-Ordinary?” Video: A Teacher of Meditation “Renouncing the Medical Model” “With So Many Spirit Guides” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “SEK is SAK: All is Sacred” “I Keep Saying” Video: Matrophilia – Love of the Mother “Tendaifying the Twig” “Why Am I Doing This?” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Reawakening Jen in Our Civilization” “Every Disease” Video: Memories of My Mother “All Healing Is Spiritual” “Music to Remind Us” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “Every Photo an Affirmation of Her” “Does the Stone Feel?” “I Am a Psyche-atrist” “Seeking the Buddhahood of the Subject” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “As In Meditation, So In Life” “Be As the Mother Lullabying” Video: The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living “Still Songbirds Sixty Years On” “The Perfect Gift” Poem: Written and read by Dr. Diamond “The Purpose of Art” Video: Photography – Finding the Soul “The Performer, His Audience, and the Maternal Instinct” “Their Muses to Actuate Ours” Lilt: “My Song Is Love Unknown” “Hearing the Composer’s Soul, Not the Music” “All of Your Actions the Result of Guidance” Video: Photography – Put Your Eyes in Your Thymus “The Mother as ‘the First Vision of Light'” “Writing is So Much Easier When I am Free” Lilt: “I Remember, I Remember” “The Endeavor of Psyche-atry” “The Belief in Non-Guidance is Guidance” Video: Leaving the Thymus Intact “What To Call What I Photograph” “The Wind that Blows Through Me” Lilt: “Invictus” “Mummy, I Hardly Knew You” “The Three Levels to a Work of Art” Video: The Thymus and the Heart Chakra “Zen (and Not)” “Danced by the Spirit” Lilt: “In Him No Darkness At All” “Fusing with the Subject” “All Guidance Is For All” “Empathy, Sympathy, and a Broken Relationship” Lilt: “I Love All Beauteous Things” “The ‘Magical Event’ of My Mother’s Passing” “A Definition of Healing” Video: How Can a Doctor Laugh? “Come to My Bower of Healing” “Nature, Ever Abundant” Lilt: “God Is My Soul” “An Artist’s Manifesto” “All Healing” Video: The Fundamentalism of Medicine “The Musician’s Invocation” “The True Musician” “The Deep Meaning of ‘Worship’” “Are Wrong Notes Ever Wrong?” Video: Singing and Surgery “Your Heart: Friend or Enemy?” “The Healer and the God Within” Video: Drumming with High Life Energy “The Unconscious Determines Everything” “Filling the Blank Space with Chi” Video: Beethoven’s Meridian of Communication “All Mothers Want Only to Love” “No-Mind Before” Video: Seeing Bach as Argument “The Harmony of All the Billions” “The Less the Artist Does, the Better” Video: The Hand-in-Hand Music Program “The Power of a Black Dot” “The Notes That Must Be Obeyed” Video: Painting – The Power of the Dot “Little Boy Lost – and Found” “Before Image, Only Movement” Video: What Did Beethoven Really Want to Write? “Robert Fulford recommended ‘Blueprint for Immortality’ by Harold Burr” “Always the Feeling of the Movement” Video: Marrying the Player to the Instrument, Part 2 “Poetry and Deep Creativity” “Painting and the Depiction of Form” Video: Marrying the Player to the Instrument, Part 1 “Grateful Thoughts on Tolstoy’s ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You'” “Empty Space Diamond?” Video: Conductors – Hands vs. Batons “Dying as Mahler – or Lao Tzu” “The Painting’s Title and the Patient’s Diagnosis” Video: High Notes – and Orgasm Success “Juan Mascaro’s Love of Mankind” “Revealing the Tathata” Video: Movement and the Breath Cycle “Georg Groddeck and the Tao” “A Tree’s Power Revealed in Winter” Video: Helping Children Through Their Parents’ Divorce “I Have a Toilet Displayed on My Verandah” “Every Photo an Arcadia” Video: Believing an Evil Act to Be Right “To Beat – or to Caress” Video: How I Began Composing Therapeutic Songs “Painting as Guided” “If We Know Heaven Inside Us” Video: The Two Types of Musician “A Deeper Definition of Beauty” “A Basic Role of the Photographer” Video: The Healing Power of Blake “Myths, Facts and Healing” “The Two Kalis” Video: Zdenek Kosler – An Appreciation “One Way to Use Healing Art” “Ramakrishna, Knowing God, and Healing” Video: The True Nature of Fear “On Titling Art” “Artistic Expression vs. Healing” Video: Painters Depicting the Yoni “The Drum Is Your Mother” “How Can You Do This to Me?” Video: Popular Song – The Marriage of Words and Music “The Pulse, the Mother, Music and Water” “Is the Tree Unbalanced?” Video: The Re-Mothering Experience “Pure Art” “Why I Meditate” Video: Tension in Western Music “The Choice” “The Nature of Healing” Video: Introducing Aspiration “How Jazz Changed My Life” “The Healer Never Heals” Video: The Genius of Sinatra “The Search for the Word” “The Less the Artist Misprocesses, the More Healing His Creativity” Video: Everything Is the Mother “The Pulse of Music” “Why Reify the Content of Art?” New Book by Sidney J. Baker & Dr. Diamond! Video: A Tribute to Sidney J. Baker “Beat versus Pulse” “Remembering Robert Fulford” Video: The Highest Affirmation “What Is Holism?” “Should I Paint on the Canvas?” Video: A=431Hz: A More Natural Pitch “The Tide and the Pulse” “The Basic Blind Spot” Video: Foxes and Hedgehogs “The Little Things” “The Tao is not for us” Video: Singing and Tennis “The Turbine” “The Two Stages to Meditation” Video: The Valley Spirit “Two Wheels on Dry Land” “Being Surrendered by Amida Buddha” Video: Knowing Belovedness “The Drive for Life” “See Deeper by Viewing Upside Down” Video: Pain vs. Hurt “Beauty, Blessedness, Belovedness” “The True Photographer” Video: Grace “Profit” “All I Want to Know” Video: The Didgeridoo and the Trombidoo “The Recovery Room” “Employing the Modalities of the Spirit – Not Medicine” Video: The Inherent Nature of Man – Pelagius vs St. Augustine “Living in the Moment” “What a Healer Must Do” Video: Van Beinum and His Timpanist “The Placebo Effect” “Gratitude, the Gift, and the Giver” Video: Brain Misprocessing “A Tribute to Dr. Louis Cholden” “The Lullaby as Gratos” Video: Thoughts on Punctuation “The Quiet Therapist” “Underneath We Are All One” Video: Early Experiences in Music Healing “The Wonder Drug” “Sustained by Blake’s Vision” Video: Finding the Mother’s Soul “Performance and Truth” “Finding the Deep Unconscious” Video: Harry Edwards and the Spiritualization of Everyday Life “My First Patient” “A Different System of Aesthetic Criticism” Video: Finding Beethoven “What Is Anguish?” “The Art of Relationship” Video: The Primary Family Problem “A Commentary on Psychosomatic Medicine” “A Momentary Revelation of the Universal Unity” “The Genesis of Music” Video: The Soul and the Spirit “An Old Raku Bowl” “A Note on the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)” Video: The Healing Potential of Music “My Writing is for You” “A Tribute to Marjorie Spalding” Video: The Original Purpose of the Arts “Martin Luther King Day Post: A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart” “The True Cure” Video: Art and the Ephemeral “Overcoming Our Deepest Suffering” “The Power of the Hara” Video: The Two Wheels on Dry Land “The Healing Potential of Art” “True Music” Video: Jen, Zhi, Li – The Soul and Its Manifestation in the World “Dancing to Heaven’s Breath” “The Best Description of Healing?” Video: The Existence of a Spirit World “Come Unto Me” “Outward Directed Communication” Video: In Tune and In Harmony “The Healing Power of Music” “The Chips on the Sculptor’s Floor” Photography Video: The Ferryboat to the Free Land “It Doesn’t Take Time to Love a Puppy” “Photography: Finding the Spirit” Video: The Pulse “Treatment or Therapy?” “The Circle of Love” Video: Making Paintings for Healing “Every Problem a Pebble” “Spiritual Medicine” Guest blog: “Music – the Great Therapy” by Kate Taylor Chris Reading, M.D.: In Memoriam Video: Art as Metaverbal Communication Article: Music for the Soul “We All Are Ramakrishnas” “I Stand Back” “The Ideal Healing Situation” “If You Want to Find God” “As the Shutter Clicks” “Every Action Epiphanic” “Grateful to Every Subject” “I Look for God” “The Inherent Ability to Heal” “Every Action Signifies the Karmic Plan” “Why Don’t You Paint to the Edges?” “Everyone Is Born to Love” “It’s Not What You Paint” “When You Know That the Artist Was Inspired” “The Cut Flower” “On Darkroom Techniques” “Music Is the Spirit Language” “Every Action Is of Great Significance” “The Underlying Desire, Hope, Intention” “From Kensho to Satori” “Everyone Is Inspired” “Free Association” “The Karmic Plan” “The Spiritual in Photography” “For the Spirit Within Each of Us” “What Do I Mean By Spiritual?” “Every Photo Is an Instance of God” “I Sometimes Crop a Photograph” “Knowing of Your Spirit Guides” “There’s No Not-Guidance” “The Sage Fish” “Mathematics So Unwise” “The Wheel of Existence” “The Manifestations of Spirit” “All Adds Up to One” “All One” “One With the Spirit Within” “The Force and the Karmic Plan” “Memorializing with Photography” “Memorialized by Nikon” “I Am the Clay” “I Photograph to Memorialize” “Not to Take a Photograph” “The More Awareness, the More Aspiration” “Aspiration” “The Tree is Ever-Aware” “Zuihitsu: Following the Brush” “The Ultimate Diagnosis” “At The Sanctuary” “However You Imagine God” “To Give It On to Others” “I Sing to the Trees” “If the Art is Altruistic” “The Trees and Their Lichens” “Every Moment a Miracle” “Countless Stars in the Universe” “A Bird in the Sky” “If Only” “A Clear Blue Sky” “I Laugh With Life” “Thousands of Therapies” “Every Tree a Witness” “To the Trees So Still” “Conducted by the Wind” “Tree Worship” “Stoic Throughout the Year” “If I Could Fly” “My Heart” “Go Beyond the Physiology” “To Help People Remember the Divine” “I Love Her as the Trees” “Beethoven’s Love for His Mother” “Georg Groddeck on Art” “Georg Groddeck on Inspiration” “Poor Memory” “When You Have Traveled the Path” “The Diamond Path of Life” “Creativity Can Be the Golden Thread” “A Poet Is Different” “The Lyrical Flux of the Unconscious” “Life is Magic” “His Muse Singing Free” “Cheek to Cheek” “I’m a Child – Again” “To Paint Musically” “Differing Degrees of Inspiration” “Wondering about the Spirit World” “Good Morning, Mama” “Beethoven’s Genius Was His Soul” “The Emanation from a Painting” “Singing in Grateful Return” “When I Feel Most Inspired” “The Painter Must Be in Harmony” “My Soul Enchanted” “Grateful When Graceful” “Inspired by Beethoven” “Never Forget” “The Healer’s Aspiring” “The Haven of Healing” “The Ninth’s Adagio” “Songs Not Mine” “Beethoven and Blake” “The Artist Awakens Souls” “In the Poet’s Soul” “Blake and Catherine in Love” “Beethoven Needed A Catherine” “My Otouto-san” “To Cling or to Embrace” “The Role of True Art” “From His Deep Unconscious” “The Surrealists Would Proudly Proclaim” “Blake’s Creativity” “Think Only of Soul” “Creativity as Aspiration through Meditation” “To Make the Unconscious Conscious” “Did the Canvas Smile Back?” “Is It Saying Thank You?” “Artists Often Declare” “The Painting’s Emanation” “Not a Healer, But a Dealer” “Empty and Full” “Blake Was Constrained” “Seeing Through the Eye” “A Happy Abstract” “I Read Blake and Feel the Spirit” “Read Blake, Behold Blake” “My Purpose on Earth” “Why Did Blake Write?” “To Paint from the Soul” “Why Did I Paint That?” “Jackson Pollock Dances” “I Love to Fling and Drip the Paint” “Altruist vs. Selfist” “Being Guided to Paint” “To Invoke Amida Buddha” “I’m Not One for a Dress Code” “Every Listener Can Become a Healer” “The Problem of Digitalized Music” “All Aesthetic Criticism Ceases” “To Truly Believe in the Spirit” “Human Nature Is Good” “It Has Been Inspired” “The Inspiration That Initiated It” “Your Hands So Soft” “A Writer Lives in Amida” “A New Face in My Life” “All Creativity is Guided” “How Can We Not Believe in Guidance?” “Blessed by Guidance” “I Am Her Beloved” “I Am Her Love” “Many Singers Who Also Play” “Love Is to Be Sung” “You Are As My Mother” “I Paint for You” “Paint from Your Soul” “His Chosen Path” “Every Painting Is Alive!” “Different Meditations” “Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)” “Most Self-Help Books” “A Healer Attempting to Heal” “On the Subject of the Spirit World” “The Zen of Direct Pointing” “These Trees So Alive” “Very Sure of Her” “A Chorus of Leaves” “Danced by Shiva” “Stoically Buddhist” “Millions of Leaves” “To Know Our Mother’s Soul” “You Live to Heal” “Born to Be Altruistic” “The Ultimate Task of the Photographer” “The More I Love the Subject” “Manifesting the Muse” “My Painting and My Photographing” “Transcending the Visible” “The Spirits All Around Us” “Creativity Is God to God” “A Heaven in Every Photo” “If I Were Thought to Be a Zen Master” “Communion with God” “Creativity Capitalized” “May I Be As a Sunbeam” “If I Can See a Heaven” “I Write For You” “About a Sufferer who Forsook Help lest She Love” “Filial and Paternal Impiety” “Flying White Is the Perfect Marriage” “Flying White” “An Exquisitely Holy Moment in Music” “Everyone’s Actions Are Always Guided” “The Highest Chakra, Communion with God” “To See My Mother As the Mother of Love” “First Know Your Mother’s Soul” “Blake’s First Vision of Light” “Is the Universe Moral?” “I Exist to Heal” “To Overcome the Buddha’s First Noble Truth” “The Twentieth Century’s Great Gift to the Arts” “The Painter’s Free Expression of His Soul” “Now I’m Painting as a Child Again” “Expressionism in Music” “Life Is Untitled” “What Is Creativity?” “Healing with the Eye” “Our True Self Is Our Divinity” “Muga-no-taiga” “The Mother of Love, Amida” “Deputized to Alter the Sufferer’s Karmic Plan” “The Muse Enchained” “Music Direct from the Muse” “The Muse is the Mother of Love” “Written by a Zen Master” “It Is the Soul That Aspires” “A Digital Nikon Needs Constant Reassurance” “A Love Affair with My Film Nikon F3’s” “The Paleolithic Tradition of Painting as Healing” “A Clear Channel for the Spirit World” “The Soul Communes with God” “We All Are the Golden Buddha” “Avalokiteshvara: She Is the Loving Mother” “Every Man-made Object Has Two Spirits” “Holding this Old Raku Bowl” “I Do It for You” “Matrophilia: Love of the Mother” “Aspiration Is an Instinct” “Inspiration Then Aspiration” “For You” “Mediation is Aspiration to the Highest Chakra” “The Essence of Healing Is Altruism” “A Healer Using Many Modalities” “To Dedicate My Life to a Higher Purpose” “A Writer Can Be Altruistic” “Altruism Relates to the Highest Chakra” “Altruism Comes from Being One” “The Essence of Healing” “Mothers’ Day Tomorrow” “No One Enters Heaven Until…” “A Dot” “There Are Two Creativities” “Part of My Healing Meditation” “Why Brushes Love to Paint” “Every Picture Can Be Seen As a Heaven” “I Am an Antenna” “My Black Ink Paintings” “How Can a Mother Really Love As a Mother?” “Wakened by Thunder” “An Homage to the Dot” “The Way to God Is through Our Mothers” “The Star Was My Mother” “Amida the Goddess of Light and Compassion” “I Never Know What I Will Paint” “My Painting Is Nembutsu” “Film Cameras Are Strong and Robust” “I Find Myself Laughing at the Painting” “Whenever I Paint She Is Guiding Me” “All That Matters When Photographing” “It’s Not What You Photograph” “Helping to Heal the Camera” “My Nikon Digital Becomes a Grateful Patient” “The Healer As Photographer” “Through My Consulting Room Window” “For a Psychiatrist to Put a Child on Ritalin” “In the Middle of Meditating” “A Haiku Is Triggered by a Sudden Perception” “The Non-believer Daren’t Believe” “This Tree My Buddha” “The Paintings in the Museum” “Three Chinese Gongshi” “Verlaine Counseled Debussy” “Issa Wrote…” “With Apologies to Issa” “Buddhas, Buddhas, Everywhere!” “To First Find Her Soul” “Scattered Flowers” “To Know the Self” “Gratitude Is the Soul at Work” “Everything Is a Projected Image of the Mother” “Coming Direct from the Muse” “Anguish Is Caused by Desire” “As the Buddha Taught” “A Birthday Is the Mother’s” “Creativity Can Be the Golden Thread” “Meditation Outwardly Directed” “The Guide of the Guides” “My Two Favorite Trees” “The Karmic Plan Always Acts for All” “Whatever I Do Affects the Spirit” “I Am Earth Mother” “For a Work of Art to Be Healing” “I Bear Within Me a Spirit” “With An Apology to Buson” “To Paint from the Hara” “Ethical Behavior” “Creativity is Being Breathed by Amida” “Creativity Is…” “An Act of Creativity” “I Have Beheld Many Trees” “We Endure for the Spirit Within” “A Breath Cycle Metaphor” “According to the Karmic Plan” “For the Spirit Within Us” “One Guidance for All Beings” “Beyond the Universal Law” “A World Without Birthing Trauma” “The Karmic Game” “All Spiritual Endeavors Alleviate the Brain Misprocessing” “Knowing Our Buddha-Natures” “Hakuin Ekaku: Meditation in the Midst” “Not Wanting to Give Up Their Illness” “In a Large Shin Temple” Category: News & Events
What Interests You?
Works of Dr. Diamond
Interests
Work Types
