Since as I mentioned in the above article on Generating Compassion that humans who develop compassion also seem to tend to create heaven realms as well through their actions (which I would liken to something like the Santa Claus effect) I realized helping people develop compassion helps them to create their own heaven realms or to join existing heaven realms potentially even while here on earth in a human body.
First of all, the easiest way to approach this that everyone likely can see as logical is to see all humans (and all beings in the universe) as basically suffering from similar types of things that you are. So, whether they are human or animals or any creatures large or small to some degree they all suffer as you do. Understanding this is the first step in having compassion for yourselves as well as all beings because you are all suffering together throughout the universe in the past, present and future.
Then, what is the primary cause of suffering?
The primary cause of suffering is ignorance. Ignorance to me is the basic source of all what people might call evil or chaos. However, it is not really evil or chaos it is ignorance that is causing most real suffering.
When you understand this you are ready to begin to learn to become a generator of compassion for your own well being and the well being of all other beings in the past, present and future anywhere and everywhere in the universe.
So, how can you generate compassion that begins to free all beings from their ignorance and suffering?
Religions often try to answer this question but often religions get bogged down in trying to make everyone go down a certain line of thinking that also might create even more suffering and insanity in the world like through suicide terrorists who are killing themselves and others to make everyone believe the same way or die. However, this only increases the suffering of mankind in the end and creates and expands ignorance for most all people. So, though people might think being a suicide terrorist is helpful actually it makes people's lives a worse hell than before.
So, how do we go beyond this to compassion for all beings?
One way to do this is to realize all compassion starts with me. It all starts with each one of us taking responsibility for being compassionate to ourselves or others. In the end there is no one that is going to do anything for us if we don't take responsibility first for our own well being and for others well being.
This comes across as a variation of what John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country!"
I would change this a little and say instead, "Ask not what the universe can do for you but what you can do for the universe and all beings!"
And when you take this attitude people start becoming your friends because you are automatically their friends because when you take care of the universe literally all beings become your family and take care of you too.
So, it is in the enlightened self interest of all beings to take care of themselves and the universe because as a natural consequence all beings and the universe will automatically take care of them too.
This is actually scientifically how the heaven realms connected to earth are all created.
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