Golden Rules Positive and Negative

Many of the great religions and cultures of the world have arrived at some form of the golden rule (Table 8.1). 

Search the Web for the term golden rule and you ll quickly find many more. Although the wordings are different, the meanings are virtually the same. Note, however, there are two different types of golden rule (Hazlitt, 1964). 

Negative golden rules are in many ways the more practical of the two as then-dictates are easier to fulfill. Consider, for example, the Confucian golden rule, a negative golden rule  

The rule urges us to consider what we would not like to have done to us and 

Buddhism Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. (Udana-Varga 5 18) 

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