Onward Buddhist Soldiers! Give the New Mantra: Om Joy, Om Joy...
At the conclusion of the Shasta program on Saturday, Hilarion came to a group of happy heartfriends who had spent their day together learning, loving and growing in grace. As the preparation for his coming began the messenger mused with a twinkle that he had the sense that Hilarion might not give what we would expect as a traditional HeartStream address. What did occur was a bit unusual to be sure.
The master came speaking in a lyrical and exuberant persona, asking us to join hands with the heartfriend on either side of us and feel the pulsations of joy coursing through, connecting our crystal hearts. His loving and carefully chosen words carried humor, encouragement and appreciation. He wants us always to look into all of our heartfriends' eyes and see them as sparkling jewels, truly the windows of their souls. He told us that appreciating each other in such a way creates a fountain of joy and this does not trap us in his "lair" (playing on his own name of Hilarion) but rather holds us in the heart of freedom forevermore. And then he cajoled, "Onward Buddhist Soldiers!" and gave us this new mantra, "Om Joy, Om Joy...."
