Guest guest Posted September 15, 2001 Report Share Posted September 15, 2001 Praise to Allah and Jesus, they agree: Please don´t kill!! Venerable Sirs (or Ladies), May all our relatives be well and secure and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives be happy at heart and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives prevent and abandon doings that lead to someones downfall and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives raise and develop doings that lead to the highest blessings and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives raise and develop doings that lead to a noble maintencance and support of the sense-mediums, the hindrances, suffering and everything that dependently arises and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives raise and develop bodhipakkiya dhamma with its requisite conditions and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives raise and develop shame and fear of wrong-doings and get sufficient help with that. May all our relatives share their merit with all beings and get sufficient help with that. Koran about killing O believers! Do not consume your wealth Among yourselves in vain. But may there be trade Out of mutual consent among you. And do not kill yourselves; For God has been merciful to you. Anyone who does kill Through enmity or oppression We will expose to fire; and that is easy for God. If you avoid the gravest Of what you are forbidden, We will blot out our sins And lead you Into a noble entry. Women 29-32 [The essential Koran Thomas Cleary ISBN 9780785 809029] The Koran about Christianity. And we caused to follow after them (book of God and his signs) Jezus, son of Mary, Confirming the truth Of the Torah before him; And we gave him the Gospel, In it guidance and light Also confirming the truth Of the Torah before it, As guidance and admonition For the conscientious. The Table (5)-46 [The essential Koran, Thomas Cleary; ISBN 9 780785 809026] The importance of virtues. In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature. For this very reason do you best to add goodness to your faith, to your goodness add knowledge. 2 Petrus 1:4-5 Good news Bible ISBN 8780005 128404 Do not commit murder . Exodus 20 : 14 Why should one strive earnestly for virtues. These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who do not have them are so short sighted that they cannot see and have forgotten that they have been purified from their past sins 2 petrus 1 : 8-9 The continueance of unvirtuous behaviour of others. So do not worry about tomorrow, it wil have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings. Matthew 6:34 How to go on? Lift up you tired hands, then, and strenghten your trembling knees! Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled , but instead healed. Try to be at peace with everyone and try to live the holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it. Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison. Hebrews 12 : 12-15 "You have heard that it was said, `Love your friends, hate your enemies.´But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may become the children of your father in heaven. For he makes his sin to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil. Why should God reward you if you love only the people that love you? Even the tax collectors do that! And if you speak only to your friends have you done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pages do that! You must be perfect - just as your father in heaven is perfect! Matthew 5:43-48 Ishwara about tollerance Tolerance consists of not killing, honesty, not stealing, self-control and non-desire. Yoga Suttas Patanjali Chapter 2 vers 30 (ISBN 9789020 224269) Confucius about handling others Tzu-kung asked :Ìs there only something which a human should act everyday?´The master said;Maybe it is the saying about respect towards others. Do not do to others what you don´t want others to do to you.` Analects of Confusius Arthur Waley 198;15.23 Oesjas the dawn Come to us, banish the enemy with your light! Prepare us to the green fields free from fear! Send away the hatred, bring us your invaluable gifts! Noble One, enjoy you blessings over the singer! Oesjas the dawn nr 4, Rig Veda ,Alexandra Gabrielli, ISBN 906271 6598 Who can condemn someone to death? If people are not afraid of death What good will it do to threaten with death. If people would fear death all time, And someone would commit a criminal act And he would be hunted down and caught Who dare to kill him? There is alwayss someone Who is occupied with a sentence of death And the execution of it. But if someone, on the other hand, Is occupied with the death sentence And is the executioner Does that mean That he acts In stead of the creator? Who executes in stead of The creator rarly does not Injure his own hand. Daodejing Laozi nr 74, ISBN 9789020 224245 A personal weakness. Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way as you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others. Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? How dare you say to you brother,´Please let me take that speck out of your eye´, when you have a log in your eye? Matthew 7:1-4 May all beings be well and secure and get sufficient help with that. May all beings be happy at heart and get sufficient help with that. May all beings prevent and abandon doings that lead to someones downfall and get sufficient help with that. May all beings raise and develop doings that lead to the highest blessings and get sufficient help with that. May all beings raise and develop doings that lead to a noble maintenance and support of the sense-mediums, the khanddhas, the hindrances, suffering and everything that dependently arises and get sufficient help with that. May all beings raise and develop bodhipakkiya dhamma with its requisite conditions and get sufficient help with that. May all beings express shame and fear of wrong-doings a lot and in a noble way and get sufficient help with that. May all beings share their merit with all beings and get sufficient help with that. Met mudita, Ratananam Matar. -------------- Get a free webmail account from http://metta.lk There is no fire like lust, no crime like hate. 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