Editing Golden Rule (section)

====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>}}