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Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.

T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien

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Your Neighbor’s Gain

Topic: Virtue, Morality, & Ethics

“Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.”

T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien
Taoism

Gensler, Harry. “Golden Rule Chronology.” The Golden Rule Chronology, Rev., Dr. Harry Gensler S.J., www.harryhiker.com/chronology.htm. [T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien 213-218].

T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien


T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien 213-218

The Golden Rule Chronology

500 BCE Taoist Laozi says: “To those who are good to me, I am good; and to those who are not good to me, I am also good; and thus all get to receive good.” (Tao Te Ching 49) A later work says: “Regard your neighbor’s gain as your gain and your neighbor’s loss as your loss.” (T’ai-Shang Kan-Ying P’ien)

–Rev., Dr. Harry Gensler S.J. [The Golden Rule Chronology].

Resources

  • Rev., Dr. Harry Gensler S.J., The Golden Rule Chronology website
  • Karen Armstrong, Charter for Compassion website

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