I've never set foot in Tasmania Joe, I live in Scotland so I sadly don't know
your friends that you mention. You sound like you have an interesting
background though.
I have half a high school education plus whatever I've read myself since
leaving school back in the late 80's and that's about as academic as I get.
Just to reiterate, I'm not the author of the words on the webpage I linked to
but I do know the author was, amongst other things, a member of the team that
designed the first pacemaker. His chosen field of expertise was electronics.
I mentioned the diamond because that diamond found me several months ago quite
spontaneously. I entered a state I believe is known in some circles as yoga
nidra, my heart beat would stop beating or at least slow down to a few beats
per minute. I was fully conscious and moving around while this was happening.
Now there are those who can enter this state at will but I can't and as your
fond of saying Joe we must practice. It's all very well falling into such a
deep meditative state spontaneously but to master it, some sort of practice may
be necessary for me. I'm not practicing zen nor have I ever practiced zen, well
not formally anyway.
I suppose I mentioned the diamond to see what others experiences and knowledge
were in relation to the diamond. I'm still wondering where to go next with my
experience or should I just leave the experience behind and wait for the next
one. Then again, if you don't know what to do, it may be best to do no-thing.
Iain.
--- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote:
>
> Iain,
>
> Sounds like you know some medicine, there, or physiology.
>
> Oh, but Tasmania, eh?
>
> Maybe you know my friend, John Tarrant, a Zen teacher now teaching in
> California. He hails from Tasmania.
>
> I also know John's old college roommate, Garry Webb, a mathematician, who
> worked for some time in our Lunar and Planetary Lab, in Arizona. Small
> world, "...but I wouldn't want to paint it", as the comedian Steven Wright is
> wont to say. But Wright had experience as a house-painter, not a landscape
> painter, the latter which I've just taken up. ;-)
>
> Tell us more about the heart search and diamond discovery if you like. I
> suppose no need to do the backward search you've alluded to, if the gem or
> heart are already established, and gleaming. Lub-dub, or shine-shine,
>
> --Joe
>
> > "iain" wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote:
> > >
> > > PS And, really, let's let Iain tell us which diamond he has in mind
> > > ...or, wherever it is. ;->
> > >
> >
> > Merle is quite right in my view about the diamond being in the heart, the
> > physical manifestation of this diamond may well be the sino-atrial node.
> > The words linked to below were written by a man who help guide me out of a
> > psychosis after I encountered the Buddha by the side of the road. Well I
> > actually met the buddha by the side of a crossroads in the dip of a valley
> > but that's another story.
> >
> > http://www.anunda.com/lifestreams/sacred-heart.htm
>
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