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One of the foremost holistic healers, the work of John Diamond M.D. includes his discovery of the link between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions.

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Share Your Memories of Dr. Diamond

Since the sad news of Dr. Diamond's passing, it has been truly heartwarming to hear from people all round the world, of how he and his work impacted their lives. The response has been overwhelming.

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“Ultimately All is Beautiful”

By Beautiful I mean all in the world that enables us to Know the Soul, the Perfection, the Belovedness.

They are more efficient, more effective, requiring less effort. They are our facilitators.

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“The Sufferer Who Dares Not Look”

No martial arts warrior has ever been as skilled in self-defense as the sufferer who does not dare to look inside.

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“Going with Intention, Not the Result”

Suppose someone, let’s say your mother, offers you a cup of tea and in the process of giving it to you, spills it over you.

How do you react? With anger – or with love? Do you go with [...]

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“The Chips on the Sculptor’s Floor”

I’ve spent my life chiseling away to find the beauty within it.

But now I realize the chunks I discarded were just as beautiful – and so was the original rock.

The chips
on the sculptor’s floor
as [...]

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“Reflection for Mother’s Day”

When I was young, there was a daily radio program in which, as previously arranged by each mother, the children whose birthdays were on that day would be instructed to follow the string tied to the back of [...]

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“The Godhead: Infinite, Eternal, Empty”

Infinite,
Eternal,
Empty.

That’s the Godhead.

Why Empty?  Why do Buddhists say The Empty, the Void, Nothingness?

We used to think that between the stars there was nothing. 

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“A Little Wise at Last?”

The English sinologist Arthur Waley writes of great Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu: “To be known is to be lost. The wise man ‘hates that the crowd should come’.”*

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“The Genesis of Religion”

To quicken: to give life, to vivify.

The anthropologist Margaret Murray at the age of ninety-nine declared in her book The Genesis of Religion that the origin of the religious feeling occurred long, long ago [...]

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“Accepting the As Is”

I never cried during my mother’s illness, nor at her death. Nor later at my daughter Kathie’s funeral.

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“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.

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“My Painting Room”

Let me tell you of the room where I do nearly all my painting. There are many physical influences there, but I’ll now just mention the Chinese because they seem to be the more powerful.

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“One Soul, One Spirit”

I speak of each of us having a Soul, as if each Soul were individual. But perhaps there’s only one Soul, with myriad manifestations.

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“Photographing the Apparently Disordered”

We can photograph the “ordered woods and gardens”[1] – as most do. I much prefer the apparently disordered – the rust, the “junk.” And, hopefully, through it the Higher Order.

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"The Enlightened Musician"

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. The Buddha-Nature, the God Within, our Innate Perfection.

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“The Aura and the Soul”

The aura, the etheric body, is an external manifestation of the Soul, the God within.

A diminished aura, or an impaired one, or one or more underactive chakras [...]

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“The Power of Love”

It is love that banishes all the negative emotions. It is love that invokes the spirit and activates the life energy. It is love that balances our brains and makes us creative.

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The Only True Identity

Without a deep, full, sense of personal identity, we are lost, and at the mercy of all those, equally lost, who choose to steal whatever there is of us so as to fashion a false identity of themselves.

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"The Great Spirit is Always Smiling on You"

First believe that every moment, each and every happening, of your life is Determined – by the Great Spirit.

And then believe that It is Always Smiling on you.

(2002)

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"Enlightenment is..."

Everyone, everything, is, to me, but one aspect or another of my mother. Enlightenment is coming to Know that all of her aspects are basically one – the Mother of Love.

(2002)

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"The Role of the True Healer"

It’s said that the basic intention behind all spiritual endeavors is reconciliation with God.

I can’t directly reconcile you with God – but I can with your mother.

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