COMPASSION OF THE HEART BRINGS HEAVEN TO EARTH
If people knew how much they hurt each other on a daily basis, they wouldn’t need to be taught ‘official’ rules of conduct, nor would they be lorded over by harshly enforced external laws, nor would they ever need to be.
One account by a guru states that on the Astral Plane populated by enlightened yogis, all of these beings instantly feel great pain at the slightest mistreatment forced upon themselves by others, and that pain is also instantly sensed by the one inflicting the pain. Naturally, such violations are rare and therefore peace is the norm.
On the Physical Plane however, most people’s trigger switch for compassion is set very high. They must have enormous amounts of evidence that someone or something is in pain before their switch flips, allowing compassion to change their mind about continuing what they were doing.
This is why using Intuition, what you instantly feel is right, is so important—because the Heart’s Intuition already knows what the Mind would take much longer to figure out through observation, reason, logic, analysis, etc. The Heart connects to what is directly in front of it through a technique of passive reception. This requires a quiet mind and/or a meditative trance—call it what you will. The idea is to be silent and still. Even the Bible advises to “Be still and know that I am God.” To know God, one must receive it.
If I had to bet on it, I would wager that the biggest reason that every country in history that allowed itself to become fanatical, imperial, fascist, dictatorial, etc., stems from their leader’s and/or the populace’s inadequate use of the Heart’s Intuition as described above, to bring about a more nonviolent interaction with their neighbors.
The more compassionate a leader and/or its populace; the longer will be its track record for peaceful relations with their neighbors, with few or even no wars (example—Tibet). The reason for this is that the people are more calm and relaxed and genial with each other. They also afford time to peaceful meditation or inner work of some sort. Whenever they be still and know God, they realize that unprovoked aggression upon their neighbors would be hurtful and certainly the opposite of compassion, so they do not engage in such activity. Peaceful and joyful lives can result from the realization and subsequent application of such compassionate activity, not only for individuals but for whole nations.
When a populace behaves in such compassionate ways, they literally have the power to create an Astral heaven upon the Earth, literally manifesting Heaven on Earth.
