Wednesday, July 24, 2013

अΣO אن冬宮 19:30 Wednesdays Global Agendae and Compacts Programme 7/7



Agenda Centennial Du Earth (ACE Plan)

ACE Plan (Agenda Centennial du Earth)
(Revised 119.7.28;67;3o15)

For the UN’s 100th;  Parliament of the World’s Religion’s 150th;

With intergenerational, interreligious, intertribal/ethnic/racial, intersocioeconomic/caste/class, interneighbourhood/international/intergalactic, inter-educational/occupational/political/additional cooperation.

5 Points of Concentration

1.  Water;
          2.  Renewable Energy;
          3.  Recycling;
          4.  Reintroduction of Agriculture into Urban/Suburban Areas;
          5.  Alleviation of All Debt;

With respect and appreciation for the respective lives and traditions of the respective indigenous people throughout the Earth and Universe.

5 Additional Considerations

          1.  Family and Friends;
          2.  Food, Clothing, and Housing;
          3.  Health;
          4.  Transportation;
          5.  Education and Labour;
         
With information on 100% of all individual productivity, consumption, and recycling activity.

5 Steps towards Peace

          1.  Service Corps:  Universal Youth Service Corps, Local Civil Service Corps, Universal Civil Service Corps;
          2.  Alleviation of All Nuclear Weapons;
          3.  Alleviation of All Military Weapons;
          4.  Alleviation of All Personal Weapons and Police Weapons;
          5.  Alleviation of All Locks (Unlocking All Doors);
         
All at each individual’s own respective level of comfort, and with Bearrier, Hug, Hold protocols.

5 Academic Disciplines

          1.  Civilisations;
          2.  Mathematics;
          3.  Language;
          4.  Nature;
          5.  Technology;

With additional advanced studies in:  Health, Law, Management, General Advanced Studies, Divinity;  and additional studies available in:  Music, Arts, Crafts, and Athletics;  with an understanding of 5 Areas of Civilisation (Mediterranea, Europe, Asia, Africa, Taínoterranea);  3 Political Collectives (Agricultural Collectives, Industrial Collectives, and Interplanetarial Collectives);  and 3 Religious Collectives (Indigenous People, Chosen People, and Celibate People [Monks and Nuns]).

5 Immediate Ideas

1.  Cooperative Transportation (with 10 Challenges, 3 Proficiencies, and 5 Methodologies);
          2.  Micro Communities (with 10 Components);
          3.  Honour System Coop Networks (with 3 Types, 1 with 10 Components);
          4.  ol (with 10);
          5.  Asona University;  Alleviation of All Debt;

Through King Kennedy Shabbazz Heschel Ghosananda Vivekananda assignments;  Gandhi, Khan, Abdul Baha, Chavez, Einstein, Black Elk assignments;  wikiships, UIFAN projects, and additional projects.

International Mean, Variance, Index, Projection (IMVIP)

IMVIP.  The Universal InterFaith Action Network (UIFAN) is an egalitarian-based benevolent intentional organisation that also has a hub within our UC Sangha.

The UIFAN Mantra is “Ahimsic Civil Transcendent Golden Rule Compassion (ACTs of GRaCe)” and this involves a comprehensive range of endeavours within the scope of the ACE Plan.  Additional information can be found at:  www.uifan.blogspot.com.

One of these endeavours is the IMVIP project.  IMVIP is an acronym that stands for “International Mean Variance Index Projection;”  and this project involves moderating the levels of consumption that we each respectively maintain, so that all people may have a sufficient amount of sustenance from which to live.  This is how it works:

International Mean.  We identify the aggregate international production of every major commodity that humanity produces within a year:  coffee, tea, corn, rice, beans, potatoes, wheat, oil, water, electricity, square/cubic residential space/commercial space, cellular minutes, bandwidth, and additionally.  Then, we divide each of these commodity outputs by the aggregate number of human beings (approximately 7 billion) to determine the “international mean” of each commodity:  how much of each commodity does each person receive when each commodity is shared exactly equally. 

Variance.  Once identifying the
international mean for each commodity, we may better consider where each of us exists within the spectrum of consumption of each commodity.  How much does each of our respective levels of consumption vary from this international mean.  And we may begin an informed policy discussion about how much is too high and how much is too low;  what is an appropriate range of “Variance” for each commodity.

Index.  Amidst this discussion, we may recognise that many of us may be uninterested within certain commodities and substantially interested within additional commodities.  So it is appropriate for us to be able to determine, based upon contemporary valuations, how much of 1 commodity may be traded for a certain amount of another commodity.  Through this, we may better measure how our respective aggregate level of consumption of all commodities compares with the respective aggregate level of consumption of all others.  These rates of exchange are listed as the “Index” (or a matrix), whose appearance resembles a large multiplication table.

Projection.  With the international mean, variance, and index completed, and with increasingly knowledgeable and cooperative economic behaviour, we may better prepare for anticipated and emerging fluctuations within the production of different commodities.  Amidst favourable or challenging weather conditions and additional factors, we may adjust our consumption of specific commodities, based upon the expected
availability of such commodities, to ensure that those who have an increased need or preference for such commodities may maintain a proficient level of consumption of such.

Listings of international commodities, annual output levels, financial valuations, and output projections can found within the Financial Times, www.ft.com;   links from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, www.fao.org;  and even Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.org;  and additionally.

We can utilise some help in assembling the first stage of this project:  the international mean of each commodity. 

In the meantime, here are some simple statistics for our consideration: 

An 8lb (~3kg) bag of potatoes contains nearly 20 potatoes and costs approximately 4US at our local Marc’s;  that is about .20US per potato.  How many potatoes  do we each eat a day?

A 5lb (~2kg) bag of rice contains nearly 20 cups of rice, making perhaps 50 cups of cooked rice, and this costs nearly 5US;  that is about .10US per cup of rice.  How much rice do we each eat a day?

A 2lb (~1kg) canister of oats contains nearly 20 cups of oats, making perhaps 40 cups of cooked oats, and this costs a little over 2US;  that is about .05US per cup of oats.  How much oats do we each eat a day?

It takes approximately 10 seconds (heartbeats) for a full tap to produce 2 liters of water;  that is 10 liters each minute, and 300 liters each half hour. 
How much water are we each utilising in a day?

How much electricity does the windmill at Case’s campus generate each day, and how many computers does that keep on during the course of the day?

How much grain do a cow, a pig, a chicken, and a lamb consume within a lifetime;  and how much food does each animal produces upon being slaughtered?

What is the average size of a home (the international square/cubic space of residential dwellings)?

Whatchu Mean?

WเเϕअAنא 天 (UIFAN) 5-Point Pilgrimage

We come from the distant corners of humanity and the Universe.

We love each other.

We want to live together in Peace and prosperity.

We overcome convention to achieve this.

We steward land and resources to build our homes, raise our families, and practise our beliefs.

UIFAN Mantra:  Ahimsic Civil Transcendent Golden Rule Compassion (ACTs of GRaCe)
(Revised 119.7.28;67;3o15)

We build knowledge of:  God, ourselves, our basic needs, our natural habitat and resources, and each other.

We practise apologies, forgiveness, reconciliation, and Atonement with each other.

We provide generosity in hospitality, both hosting and visiting each other.

We build relationships through a 12-step process of:  Respect, Patience, Compassion, Understanding, Trust, Cooperation, Mutual Reliance, Productivity, Prosperity, Sustainability, Peace, and Happiness.

We share basic principles, including:  the Welt Ethos of Truthfulness, Ahimsa, Sexual Morality, and Socioeconomic Balance;  and the Golden Rule;  Consensus (with Full, Prophesy, Majority, Ancestry, and DJ Remix Protocols);  and Stewardship (with 1st, Present, Need, Productivity, Care, and Ordination Protocols).

We yield personal ownership to personal wellbeing.

We practise Ahimsic Civil Transcendent Golden Rule Compassion (ACTs of GRaCe).

We Squat, Annex, and Transform areas, land, buildings, and additional property, facilities, and considerations.

We cooperate with conventional authority;  we cooperate without conventional authority.

We are aware of the risks involved;  and we are aware of circumstances that exist beyond the risks.

We build innovation, with:  new investment, new education, new agriculture, new manufacturing, new infrastructure, and new families, friends.

We manifest the ACE Plan, with:  5 Points of Concentration;  5 Additional Considerations;  5 Steps towards Peace;  5 Academic Disciplines;  and 5 Immediate Ideas.

We build MESLPUCATs:  Moderation amidst Economies of Scale, with Local Prosperity through Universal Compassion, cultivating Atman and Trust within each other.

We adhere to the Universal Youth Service Corps Pledge and Mantra.

International Association For Religious Freedom

Priorities

Our work & activities are guided by the principles expressed in Article 18 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
 
IARF has developed a Statement of Purpose which outlines our priorities. From these guidelines it has focused its work on five practical programme areas:

  • Supporting affected communities: Identifying communities that have recently suffered from the denial of religious freedom and working with regional co-ordinators and member organisations to develop practical programmes of support;

  • Non-formal diplomacy: Communicating with decision makers on the basis of non-formal diplomacy, and through U.N. channels, to raise concerns about religious persecution;

  • Young adult programmes: Creating a global network of young adults who are committed to addressing religious freedom issues and to promoting interfaith harmony and understanding;

  • Codes of Conduct: Working with member organisations to develop voluntary guidelines for responsible religious practice;

  • Preventive strategies: Identifying vulnerable areas before acts of religious intolerance recur, or occur, and developing programmes focused on prevention, including an emphasis on the role of education.
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 A Unique Multifaith Philosophy

Inspired by the Parliament of World Religions in 1893, IARF formed in 1900. We are thus the oldest among the several international multifaith organizations to have emerged over the past century.
Our World Congress in 1901 adopted a simple purpose:
“to open communication with those in all lands who are striving to unite pure religion and perfect liberty, and to increase fellowship and cooperation among them“.
The simplicity and openness of its purpose has led to unique characteristics for IARF, which:
  • …draws from the more liberal orientations in major religious cultures of the world.
  • …specifically focuses upon religious freedom in its emergent forms everywhere: individual freedom of conscience, tolerance, dialogue and understanding, and cooperation among religious groups.
  • …encourages advocacy for individuals and groups for whom freedom is restricted, always with sensitivity to local understandings of freedom and its implementation.
  • …in its international practice is a coming together of member groups. Thus individuals benefit from a multitude of perspectives in their personal quest for global consciousness.
  • …is relational in nature, beyond arms-length dialogue to inner openness to growth and transformation.

United Religions Initiative (URI)

Charter

Preamble

We, people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions throughout the world, hereby establish the United Religions Initiative to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.
We respect the uniqueness of each tradition, and differences of practice or belief.
We value voices that respect others, and believe that sharing our values and wisdom can lead us to act for the good of all.
We believe that our religious, spiritual lives, rather than dividing us, guide us to build community and respect for one another.
Therefore, as interdependent people rooted in our traditions, we now unite for the benefit of our Earth community.
We unite to build cultures of peace and justice.
We unite to heal and protect the Earth.
We unite to build safe places for conflict resolution, healing and reconciliation.
We unite to support freedom of religion and spiritual expression, and the rights of all individuals and peoples as set forth in international law.
We unite in responsible cooperative action to bring the wisdom and values of our religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions to bear on the economic, environmental, political and social challenges facing our Earth community.
We unite to provide a global opportunity for participation by all people, especially by those whose voices are not often heard.
We unite to celebrate the joy of blessings and the light of wisdom in both movement and stillness.
We unite to use our combined resources only for nonviolent, compassionate action, to awaken to our deepest truths, and to manifest love and justice among all life in our Earth community.

Purpose

The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.

Principles

  1. The URI is a bridge-building organization, not a religion.
  2. We respect the sacred wisdom of each religion, spiritual expression and indigenous tradition.
  3. We respect the differences among religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions.
  4. We encourage our members to deepen their roots in their own tradition.
  5. We listen and speak with respect to deepen mutual understanding and trust.
  6. We give and receive hospitality.
  7. We seek and welcome the gift of diversity and model practices that do not discriminate.
  8. We practice equitable participation of women and men in all aspects of the URI.
  9. We practice healing and reconciliation to resolve conflict without resorting to violence.
  10. We act from sound ecological practices to protect and preserve the Earth for both present and future generations.
  11. We seek and offer cooperation with other interfaith efforts.
  12. We welcome as members all individuals, organizations and associations who subscribe to the Preamble, Purpose and Principles.
  13. We have the authority to make decisions at the most local level that includes all the relevant and affected parties.
  14. We have the right to organize in any manner, at any scale, in any area, and around any issue or activity which is relevant to and consistent with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles.
  15. Our deliberations and decisions shall be made at every level by bodies and methods that fairly represent the diversity of affected interests and are not dominated by any.
  16. We (each part of the URI) shall relinquish only such autonomy and resources as are essential to the pursuit of the Preamble, Purpose and Principles.
  17. We have the responsibility to develop financial and other resources to meet the needs of our part, and to share financial and other resources to help meet the needs of other parts.
  18. We maintain the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct, prudent use of resources, and fair and accurate disclosure of information.
  19. We are committed to organizational learning and adaptation.
  20. We honor the richness and diversity of all languages and the right and responsibility of participants to translate and interpret the Charter, Articles, Bylaws and related documents in accordance with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles, and the spirit of the United Religions Initiative.
  21. Members of the URI shall not be coerced to participate in any ritual or be proselytized.
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Organisational Design

“URI is creating tools and methodologies that are allowing it to grow deep roots while its rapid global growth is sowing seeds for…cooperation and peace across the world” -- Kevin Jones and Mark Beam of Collective Intelligence

URI is a grassroots, decentralized network for peace and social change that enhances local initiative through global connections. Our unique design allows for border-crossing among faith traditions, member organizations and regions; propels rapid, self-replicating growth; and extends our chartered principles into partnerships to transform communities and entire regions.
URI is comprised of hundreds of member Cooperation Circles, groups of at least seven members representing least three different religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions who subscribe to the Preamble, Purpose and Principles of URI’s Charter. Cooperation Circles are connected to one another and the whole of URI by eight regional anchor points: North America; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; and Multi-Region, whose issue-based CCs span multiple geographic regions
Cooperation Circles participate in governance by electing Trustees to the Global Council, which oversees URI’s strategic growth. Decisions are made using processes that engage URI’s membership, and follow policies and guidance provided by the Global Council. The Executive Director, through authority granted by the Global Council, manages staff and leads day-to-day operations.
Global Assemblies of the URI community are held periodically to give CCs an opportunity to deepen connections, share best practices, and align strengths. These important gatherings increase the community’s capacity to carry forward global initiatives; share and implement visions of collective actions for peace, justice and healing; build cross-regional partnerships; inaugurate a new Global Council; and celebrate the tremendous collective achievements of URI.

Rights and Responsibilities of Cooperation Circles

Each Cooperation Circle has the right, in accordance with URI’s Preamble, Purpose and Principles:
  • To organize in any manner and around any issue or activity
  • To determine its own process of governance and decision-making
  • To choose to combine with or join any other URI CCs
  • To participate in the selection of Trustees to serve on the Global Council
  • To use the name URI and its related names, logos, and images
  • To review and forward to the CC Approval Committee applications for membership from those seeking to join
Each Cooperation Circle accepts the responsibility: 
  • To act in accordance with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles
  • To determine its own process of governance and decision-making
  • To encourage and ensure that its own members act in accordance with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles
  • To actively work toward achieving the Purpose in accordance with the Principles
  • To adhere to bylaws and operating procedures as they evolve in the life of URI
  • To communicate best practices, stories and highlights of activities with other parts of URI
  • To develop financial and other resources to meet its own needs
  • To share financial and other resources to help meet the needs of other CCs
  • To pay any dues and/or offer such appropriate contribution as the Global Council may establish
  • To keep accurate and current records of its members, financial transactions and activities
  • To indemnify and hold the Trustees, URI, its employees and representatives, harmless from any liabilities arising out of or in any way caused by a URI CC’s breach of any provision of the articles, bylaws or operating procedures

Global Council

The Global Council of Trustees (GC) is URI’s primary governing body. Elected by Cooperation Circles, its purpose is help make real the vision and values of the Preamble, Purpose and Principles and ensure the long-term health and vitality of the organization. It is responsible for developing financial and other resources to meet the needs of URI, accepting applications for membership, and managing the organization’s affairs. The central spirit of the Global Council is not one of control, but rather one of service, informed by the aspirations of the whole URI community to be a positive force for peace, justice, and healing in the world.

Trustee Selection

We use the term trustee in its truest sense: URI Trustees carry the trust of the entire global URI membership, charged with representing their interests in the larger body. The Trustees of URI are exemplary leaders who manifest the vision and values of the Preamble, Purpose and Principles through their actions, and have a deep commitment to serve the whole of the URI community.
The majority of the Global Council’s seats are filled through regional elections in which Cooperation Circles select up to three Trustees for their region. The Global Council may also appoint several Trustees to ensure optimum diversity and to meet the need for particular expertise. Trustees are elected every three years. Founder and President Bishop William Swing and URI’s Executive Director also hold seats on the GC.

Learn More

URI’s bottom-up structure means that it is constantly evolving as an organization, growing and changing to reflect the interests of its constituent members. Explore the links above and in the sidebar to learn more about our history and charter; click here to read our bylaws; or, for a closer look at URI’s creation, a four-year process that involved hundreds of stakeholders, we recommend that you read Birth of a Global Community, a book co-authored by Executive Director Charles Gibbs and Director for Organization and Regional Development Sally Mahé. To purchase this book, contact URI.
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Guidelines For Action

URI Cooperation Circles are self-organizing and self-governing, choosing what issues to take on and how. This Agenda for Action, inspired by a Javanese phrase, Memayu Hayuning Bawano, meaning “to work for the safety, happiness and welfare of all life,” is offered as guidance for CC activities. 
  • Faith Traditions: Actions to promote daily interfaith dialogue, understanding and education.
  • Healing and Peace: Actions to prevent and mediate religiously motivated conflict and promote reconciliation.
  • Rights and Responsibilities: Actions to uphold and promote human rights.
  • Ecological Imperatives: Actions to promote environmental welfare.
  • Sustainable Just Economics: Actions to close the poverty gap.
  • The URI Community: Actions to support URI and its activities.

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Cooperation Circles (CCs) are transcending religious and cultural divisions all around the world to create inclusive, on-the-ground solutions to critical issues facing their communities and regions.
Key areas of work include
  • Peacebuilding: The quest for peace among people of different faiths is at the heart of URI’s mission. URI CCs are active in 22 of 30 regions where there are ongoing religiously motivated conflicts. In 2009, to support the critical work of these CCs and meet a growing demand for conflict mediation training, URI launched the Traveling Peace Academy. This unique program teaches grassroots leaders to build multi-stakeholder partnerships for peace and community development.
  • Youth: In response to an increasing number of youth-led and youth-oriented CCs—many coming from Asian and African countries where youth populations are growing dramatically—URI developed a Young Leaders Program to provide training and connectivity for this next generation of leaders. Since its launch in 2008, it has grown from 100 to 500 members who are doing innovative work all over the world.
  • Environment: Many of our CCs are organized around environmental issues, including pollution, resource depletion and global warming, which cut across religious, cultural and geographic boundaries and underlie many of the social and economic issues they face. In 2008, URI launched its Environmental Satellite, a network of environmental experts and environment-oriented CCs, and developed a collection of on-line resources to support them. URI’s Global Council also issued a Climate Change Call to Action in 2010.
  • Women: Women and girls still experience gender discrimination and inequality in many parts of the world and are especially susceptible to violence and poverty. Many Cooperation Circles are focused on empowering and mobilizing women through activities like providing domestic violence counseling in Angola and offering job and skills training in Mozambique, Pakistan and Panama. A group of eleven CCs has recently joined together to form the URI Women’s Coalition, a Multiple CC that will advocate for women and girls across URI’s geographic regions.

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URI North America Strategic Plan

 A Vision for the North America Region of United Religions Initiative in 2020
The Leadership Council of 2011
As we stand today in the year 2011, we look forward a brief nine years to the day when….
1. Our region has a continuously expanding number of Cooperation Circles and Affiliates in a network
which has achieved critical mass throughout the US and Canada.
2. All organizations and individuals who have chosen to be part of this network take pride in identifying
themselves as being associated with URI and do so voluntarily and consistently. They each serve as a
local resource to other organizations in their local area or who share a focal interest, sharing their
experience and offering support to one another in a spirit of collaboration.
3. All of our region’s CCs are actively producing effective programs and events which are financially selfsustaining
and well managed.
4. The public is aware of URI in all cities and areas where there are CCs, and URI’s presence and input is
both welcome and respected as a positive influence in those communities.
5. URI’s input is sought out by governmental and faith‐based organizations and the media as a respected
moral voice. URI is seen as a key player in the interfaith network throughout the region, and its
participation is sought out by other organizations in region‐wide events.
6. Youth programs are in place in at least 50% of the communities where CCs exist, many formed into
ongoing CCs themselves. These programs enable high school and college students to become aware of
and embrace interfaith values and principles as their own.
7. The regional organization’s operations are largely self‐funding with reliable and varied revenue
streams including earned, granted, and donated funds.
8. The regional organization has a well‐established and positive reputation for sharing our expertise on
interfaith dialogue, non‐violent communication, cross‐cultural networking, and enhancement of
relationships among our CC’s and Affiliates.
9. All CCs are aware of the many valuable tools and resources available to them through the regional and
global offices and through networking with one another. They appropriately call on and offer
resources to their sister CCs to strengthen the work of URI in our region.
10. The region’s Leadership Council’s members demonstrate consistent personal commitment to the
support and development of URI in North America through the gifts of their time, talent, inspiration
and financial support. The Council and its committees and work teams are drawn from CC’s and
Affiliates throughout our region and from both its nations, with effortless, healthy, scheduled
recruitment and turnover of its membership and the roles they serve each year.
11. The Regional Coordinator serves full time and is compensated at an appropriate professional rate for
their services. Other staff members serve on a part‐time, contractual basis, augmenting the Regional
Coordinator’s time and skills base with their own. They, too, are well and reliably compensated for
their services at a professionally appropriate rate.

Charter For Compassion

Charter

The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect. 

It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism, or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity. We acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately and that some have even increased the sum of human misery in the name of religion.

We therefore call upon all men and women to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion ~ to return to the ancient principle that any interpretation of scripture that breeds violence, hatred or disdain is illegitimate ~ to ensure that youth are given accurate and respectful information about other traditions, religions and cultures ~ to encourage a positive appreciation of cultural and religious diversity ~ to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.

We urgently need to make compassion a clear, luminous and dynamic force in our polarized world. Rooted in a principled determination to transcend selfishness, compassion can break down political, dogmatic, ideological and religious boundaries. Born of our deep interdependence, compassion is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is the path to enlightenment, and indispensable to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.
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Golden Rule In Different Traditions

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule is a teaching of righteousness and compassion that seems to be shared by the many religious traditions of the World:

Baha’i
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.
          --Baha’ullah, Gleanings

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

Christianity
“But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.  To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also;  and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.  Give to every one who begs from you;  and of him who takes away from your goods do not ask them again.  And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.”
--Luke 6:27 - 31

Confucianism
Tse-kung asked, “Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?”  Confucius replied, “It is the word ‘shu’ – reciprocity.  Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”
          --Doctrine of the Mean 13:3

Ancient Egyptian
Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.
          --The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant 109 – 110

Hinduism
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 behaviour is due to selfish desires.
          --Mahabharata (Anusasana Parva, Section CXIII, Verse 8)

Humanism
Don’t do things you wouldn’t want to have done to you.
          --British Humanist Society

Islam
None of you (Truly) believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
          --Al Nawawi’s Forty Hadith 13

Jainism
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.
          --Lord Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara

Judaism
When a foreigner comes to live in your land, do not insult or discriminate against him.  The foreigner who becomes a citizen must be treated exactly the same as a native-born person.  You must love him just as much as you love yourself.  You must remember that you were once foreigners in Egypt.  I am Adonai.
--Vayikra 19:33 - 34

Mohism
If people regarded other people’s families in the same way that they regard their own, who then would incite their own family to attack that of another?  For one would do for others as one would do for oneself.
          --Mozi, Mozi Chapter 16

Native American Spirituality
All things are our relatives;  what we do to everything, we do to ourselves.  All is really One.
          --Black Elk

Roman Pagan Religion
The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.

Scientology
Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you.
          --The Way to Happiness

Shinto
The heart of the person before you is a mirror.  See there your own form.
          --Munetada Kurozumi

Sikhism
Don’t create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.
          --Guru Arjan Devji 259

Taoism
The sage has no interest of his own, but takes the interests of the people as his own.  He is kind to the kind;  he is also kind to the unkind:  for Virtue is kind.  He is faithful to the faithful;  he is also faithful to the unfaithful:  for Virtue is faithful.
          --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 49

Yoruba (Nigeria)
One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts.

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

Philosophers
May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
--Plato

Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you.
--Socrates

Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
--Kant

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