Editing Golden Rule (section)

===Indian religions===
{{See also|Indian religions}}

====Hinduism====
{{See also|Hinduism}}
{{blockquote|One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self. This, in brief, is the rule of dharma. Other behavior is due to selfish desires.|[[Brihaspati]]|[[Mahabharata]] 13.113.8 (Critical edition)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mahabharataonline.com/translation/mahabharata_13b078.php |title=Mahabharata Book 13 |publisher=Mahabharataonline.com |date=13 November 2006 |access-date=12 September 2013 |archive-date=3 January 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103181713/http://www.mahabharataonline.com/translation/mahabharata_13b078.php |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|By making ''[[dharma]]'' your main focus, treat others as you treat yourself<ref><nowiki>tasmād dharma-pradhānéna bhavitavyam yatātmanā | tathā cha sarva-bhūtéṣhu vartitavyam yathātmani ||</nowiki><br><br />तस्माद्धर्मप्रधानेन भवितव्यं यतात्मना। तथा च सर्वभूतेषु वर्तितव्यं यथात्मनि॥|title = Mahābhārata Shānti-Parva 167:9)</ref>}}

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{{blockquote|<poem>श्रूयतां धर्मसर्वस्वं श्रुत्वा चाप्यवधार्यताम्।
आत्मनः प्रतिकूलानि परेषां न समाचरेत्।।</poem>
If the entire [[Dharma]] can be said in a few words, then it is—that which is unfavorable to us, do not do that to others.|[[Padma Purana|Padmapuraana]], shrushti 19/357–358{{failed verification|date=June 2021}}}}

====Buddhism====
{{See also|Buddhism|Buddhist ethics}}
[[Buddha]] (Siddhartha Gautama, {{circa|623}}–543 BCE)<ref>{{cite book|title="Gautama Buddha (B.C. 623-543)" by T.W. Rhys-Davids, The World's Great Events, B.C. 4004–A.D. 70 (1908)|first=Esther|last=Singleton|pages=124–135}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.booksie.com/religion_and_spirituality/article/myoma_myint_kywe/the-buddha-%28bc-623bc-543%29 |title=The Buddha (BC 623–BC 543) – Religion and spirituality Article – Buddha, BC, 623 |publisher=Booksie |date=8 July 2012 |access-date=12 September 2013 |archive-date=5 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005174836/http://www.booksie.com/religion_and_spirituality/article/myoma_myint_kywe/the-buddha-%28bc-623bc-543%29 |url-status=live }}</ref> made the negative formulation of the golden rule one of the cornerstones of his ethics in the 6th century BCE. It occurs in many places and in many forms throughout the [[Tripitaka]].

{{blockquote|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. |[[Sutta Nipata]] 705}}

{{blockquote|One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.|[[Dhammapada]] 10. Violence}}

{{blockquote|Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.|[[Udanavarga]] 5:18}}

{{blockquote|Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.<ref>[http://www.enabling.org/ia/vipassana/Archive/H/Harris/detachmentHarris.html Detachment and Compassion in Early Buddhism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221095204/http://www.enabling.org/ia/vipassana/Archive/H/Harris/detachmentHarris.html |date=21 December 2007 }} by Elizabeth J. Harris (enabling.org)</ref>}}

====Jainism====
{{See also|Jainism|Ahimsa in Jainism}}
The Golden Rule is paramount in the Jainist philosophy and can be seen in the doctrines of [[Ahimsa in Jainism|ahimsa]] and [[Karma in Jainism|karma]]. As part of the prohibition of causing any living beings to suffer, Jainism forbids inflicting upon others what is harmful to oneself.

The following line from the [[Acaranga Sutra]] sums up the philosophy of Jainism:
{{Blockquote|Nothing which breathes, which exists, which lives, or which has essence or potential of life, should be destroyed or ruled over, or subjugated, or harmed, or denied of its essence or potential.

In support of this Truth, I ask you a question – "Is sorrow or pain desirable to you?" If you say "yes it is", it would be a lie. If you say, "No, It is not" you will be expressing the truth. Just as sorrow or pain is not desirable to you, so it is to all which breathe, exist, live or have any essence of life. To you and all, it is undesirable, and painful, and repugnant.<ref>{{cite book | last =Jacobi | first =Hermann | title =Ācāranga Sūtra, Jain Sutras Part I, Sacred Books of the East | volume =22 | year =1884 | url =http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe22/index.htm | at =Sutra 155–156 | access-date =22 November 2007 | archive-date =7 July 2010 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100707144941/http://www.sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe22/index.htm | url-status =live }}</ref>}}

{{Blockquote|A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated. | [[Sutrakritanga]] |''1.11.33''}}

{{Blockquote|In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.|Lord Mahavira|24th Tirthankara}}

====Sikhism====
{{See also|Sikhism|Karma}}
{{blockquote|Precious like jewels are the minds of all. To hurt them is not at all good. If thou desirest thy Beloved, then hurt thou not anyone's heart.|Guru Arjan Dev Ji 259, Guru Granth Sahib}}