Compassion, happiness, joy, health, sanity, wealth, you name it in positive directions comes from making the conscious choice to learn to develop compassion for yourself and all beings in the universe past, present and future.
Why is this? When I first decided to become enlightened as my life's work to benefit myself and all mankind I didn't know this. I slowly started to learn about this starting in my 20s and culminating in my seeing how the paths I chose (which were paths of truth) killed people 50 percent of the time and helped them 50% of the time. So, I saw truth as a two edged sword that killed and helped equally. So, something seemed wrong with this very western path. Then I looked at the path of compassion and saw that 100% of the time this path tended to help all beings. So, then I saw my own nature best served by going in a path of compassion. For me, over time I finally found a path that worked for me in the direction of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism. Since I was raised a mystical Christian and since to Christians Buddhism is considered to be a philosophy and not a religion I had no difficulty at all adding Tibetan Buddhism to my core path. This is true of Christians around the world too by the way.
I found specific methods to creating deep attitudes of compassion for all beings including myself in the past, present and future.
Part of the methods I found effective for myself in developing deep compassion for all beings in the universe was the following Buddhist mantra and prayer:
"May all beings attain Bliss and the cause of Bliss.
May all beings be freed from suffering and the cause of suffering
May all beings never be without the supreme Bliss that is free from all
Near and Far all Grasping and Aversion."
Sometimes now after repeating this in my mind as a prayer since around 1980 when I was 32 I will wake up in the morning repeating this over and over to myself as a prayer for all beings in the past present and future of the universe. By accepting this prayer manifest in all time and space it also creates this in a quantum field around me for all beings. So, as beings get nearer to me physically (within blocks, miles or nationwide or worldwide (depending upon how well I'm able to do this on a particular day or moment) they feel joy, compassion, peace, wealth, blessing, hope, love, joy, too.
Since there are millions and millions of practitioners of compassion worldwide anyone who comes into proximity of one of us begins to feel their health (mental and physical) get better. By making a vow to yourself to be constantly practicing generating compassion for all beings in the past, present and future you too become a generator of compassion and help to create heaven realms right here on earth wherever you are.
As you learn to do this over time you also learn "Right Mindful Compassion".
There is idiot compassion and then there is right mindful compassion. Right mindful compassion is sort of like getting a very efficient Engineering degree in manifesting compassion in the most efficient way possible for the most amount of beings in any given moment. I think personally, the Dalai Lama might be the best person at doing this on earth in any given moment. However, like the new heart cell that causes a heart to beat each time this might change in any given heart beat or moment on earth in helping create a literal "Heaven on Earth" for all of us ongoing right here on Earth.
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