30 Days On The Mount

it means refraining from certain actions. It is never very difficult not to do things.’ xiv It was actually focused on self-love and self-interest not on the needs of others.

Jewish

The great Rabbi Hillel, a contemporary of Jesus, famously answered a man who asked him to explain the entire Old Testament Law while he stood on one leg; ‘What is hateful to yourself, do to no other; that is the whole Law, and the rest is commentary. Go and learn.’ In the Book of Tobit, Tobias told his son; ‘What you yourself hate, to no man do’. xiv

Far Eastern

176 King Nicolas laid down this principle for his subjects; ’Do not do to others the things which make you angry when you experience them at the hands of other people. ’ The philosopher Epictetus said; ‘What you avoid suffering yourselves, seek not to inflict upon others.’ The Stoics taught; ‘What you do not wish to be done to you, do not do to anyone else.’ Tsze-Kung, a disciple of the religious philosopher Confucius, asked him, ‘Is there one word whic h may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life?’ Confucius said, ‘Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. ” One of the Buddhist Hymns of Faith recites : “Put ting oneself in the place of others, kill not, nor cause to kill… Doing as one would be done by, kill not nor cause to kill. ” Greek