The Golden Rule is the most universal guide human beings have for their ethical journey; it is found in one form or another in all the major cultures and religions. Here is a sampling...
Judaism--"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man." (Talmud, Shabbat 31a)
Christianity--"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets." (Matthew 7:12)
Buddhism--"Seek for others the happiness you desire for yourself...Hurt not others with that which pains you." (Udana-varga 5,1)
Aboriginal--"You must always remember that the two-leggeds and all the other peoples who stand upon this earth are sacred and should be treated as such." (White Buffalo Calf Woman)
Sikhism--"I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all." (Guru Granth Sahib, page 1299)
Hinduism--"This is the sum of duty; do naught unto others what you would have them do unto you." (Mahabharata 5:1517)
Taoism--"Regard your neighbour's gain as your own gain and your neighbour's loss as your own loss." (Lao Tzu, Tai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-218)
Beatitudes for the Workplace by Max Oliva SJ
2009 Novalis Publishing Inc.
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2 comments:
Email from Maurice (November 6/10):
Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the human beings of the world believed in the Golden Rule and lived it? Then we would all live in peace until the Lord comes.
Email from June-Marie (Nov 10/10):
"What a wonderful history on the GOLDEN RULE...I remember when we first moved to Ottawa we were the only Christian family in our apartment building...the rest were Jewish...I learned so much about their beliefs and attended a few Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. I went to a Jewish wedding and a Jewish wake and attended many Friday night Shabbat dinners...one 78 year old man who lived in the apartment right next to ours with his son and family used to tell us stories upon stories of him growing up in Europe and losing his family in the Holocaust as they were in Bergen-Belsen...I was only 16 but the one thing that has always stuck in my mind was he told me that they believed in our Golden Rule too and showed it to me in his old 'dog-eared' Talmud...he translated it just as you did...thank you for bringing that memory back...more people should see and understand why we should live that ONE RULE if no other..."
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