Countryside Community Church - Joy Luke Club

This week a Countrysider was obviously listening to the sermon, where I stated that all the major world religions have some version of the Golden Rule as a key facet of their practices.  She passed me a compilation of scriptures from around the world:

BRAHMANISM (A form of Hinduism): This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which cause you pain if done to you. - Mahabharata 5:1517

BUDDHISM: Hurt not others in a way that you yourself would find hurtful.  Udana-Varga 5:18

CONFUCIANISM: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.  - Analects 15:23

TAOISM: REgard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. T’ai Shang Kan Yig P’ien

ZOROASTRIANISM: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.  - Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

JUDAISM: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman.  That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. – Talmud, Shabbat 31a

CHRISTIANITY: All things whatsoever ye would do that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.  - Matthew 7:12

ISLAM: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. - Sunnah

If you haven’t been to the Charter for Compassion website, read the charter that was released last week, and/or signed the charter yourself, I suggest clicking here.