Be excellent to each other

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balthazar
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Be excellent to each other

Postby balthazar » Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:59 am

There was a post from a listserv I subscribe to made by a guy who did some research and found some interesting similarities between a number of religions. Despite their differences in practice, and even in doctrine, the core value amounts to the Golden Rule, in various forms, as shown below.


So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Torah and the Prophets.
[Matthew 7:12 - Yeshua]

Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.
[Zoroastrian - Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29]

We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us.
[Aristotle, 385 BCE]

Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.
[Buddhism - Udana-Varga ]

No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
[Islam - Hadith ]

And if your eyes are turned towards justice, choose you for your neighbour that which you want for yourself.
[Baha'i - Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, 30]

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
[Hillel]

This is the sum of duty: Do naught to others which would cause you pain if done to you.
[Hindu - The Mahabharata]

Do to another what you would have him do to you... you need this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.
[Confucius, 500 BCE]

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
[Shinto - Analects, 15:24]

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Postby Grant » Thu Apr 17, 2003 3:03 pm

Excellent!