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Richard Payment

Author Richard Payment is a film librarian at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada. He is also the editor of The Divine Cool Breeze magazine. He has enjoyed the benefits of Sahaja Yoga for 28 years. Richpay

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This life

This life

Richard Payment | April 10, 2010 | 7 Comments | 2,694 views

I don’t know how meditation and thoughtless awareness have changed me. There have been no medical cures or swerving life changes. I know that joy does not go away like the sunshine behind a rain cloud. I know that the blessings are always around me, even in the smallest of things. If I am not collecting these showering joys, it may be that I am simply holding the bucket upside down…

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A place for meditation

A place for meditation

Richard Payment | September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments | 2,846 views

In order to meditate, you must first want to meditate. There must be a desire in your heart. Be humble about it. Ask for the necessary temperament. Create an environment conducive to meditation. For starters, make a meditation room…

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Now is the time to seek

Now is the time to seek

Richard Payment | September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment | 1,572 views

We are all a part of something greater. We are each a stitch in a fabric which is stretching across an infinite universe. It has folds and pleats and a design of such delicate beauty created by the warp and weft of each thread. Everything is connected – including you and me…

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Who is Shri Mataji?

Who is Shri Mataji?

Richard Payment | July 16, 2009 | 6 Comments | 5,124 views

Many people feel a deep devotion to Shri Mataji because they recognize her uniqueness. When she entered their lives they felt changed.

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The unchangeable land

The unchangeable land

Richard Payment | June 11, 2009 | 3 Comments | 3,428 views

There is a land unchanged, separate from our own. It is not distant, but very close. It a country we may never have visited, but it is not foreign. Don’t miss a thing. There is a lot to see.

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Something we all want

Something we all want

Richard Payment | May 7, 2009 | No Comments | 1,778 views

Happiness is not just laughter. It is not simply a smile of satisfaction. These might be manifestions of our happiness, but they are not the source. They are not the root.

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Being There

Being There

Richard Payment | April 19, 2009 | No Comments | 1,691 views

Imbibe is a word used often in Sahaja Yoga. To imbibe a quality, a virtue, a mode of living is to make it your own.

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Language Reveals Our Inner Beauty

Language Reveals Our Inner Beauty

Richard Payment | December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment | 2,806 views

Knowledge of the chakras is most comprehensively found in the ancient science of yoga. This system was first formalized by the physician-sage Patanjali about three thousand years ago.

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Saints

Saints

Richard Payment | November 12, 2008 | 4 Comments | 2,750 views

But are there saints today? Where have they gone – real saints, exemplary characters with street cred to match?

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Why I meditate

Why I meditate

Richard Payment | September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments | 1,738 views

To improve in the real sense, to be something better at the end of your life than you were when you arrived here demands more than just skills and talents. It demands change.

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