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Compassionate Living - I

By: Angela Tuttle | Last Updated: 07/19/2012 15:40

Over the next few weeks, the vital place of compassion in Christian living will be our focus. It, indeed, lies at the heart of many religious traditions, and is often referred to as “The Golden Rule.” Here are some renditions of it:

You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Judaism – Lev. 19: 18)

Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. (Christianity – Mt. 7:12)

Not one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself. (Islam – Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi 13)

A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated. (Jainism)

Tsekung asked, “Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?” Confucius replied, “It is
the word shu – reciprocity: Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.” (Confucianism – Analects 15.23)

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as “Just as I am so are they; just as they are so am I,” he should neither kill nor cause others to kill. (Buddhism – Sutta Nipata 705)

 

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