Do Unto Others as You would Have Them Do Unto You

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by inavalan

[1] I think that one should do only the right-thing as his intuition and judgement dictates. We fall much more often in error when following others' definitions of right-things. Also, following others we don't really grow.

I listen and observe through my being how to move and be in this world. I think the old paradigm of my life was done more through the ‘right’ and ‘ wrong’ interpretations of others in me.

I read a lot of others and their path and experiences but at the the heart of all matters is my own leading me.

[Joe Mc]

I have been trying to put into words that very simplest of feelings say when as a child you reject some kind of adult attention especially from a parent, maybe Mother. You say, " No I don't need that love type of thing." Obviously this is a kind of growing up thing and biologically driven perhaps. But along side that biological independence and growth develops a type of hubris perhaps an ego ? You see that in early teenage years when the boy rejects the girl for example to go with his friends pretending he has no feelings etc. Perhaps a type of rejection of feelings of love is conditioned in us or is a biological given. Do these feelings of masking, rejecting surviving continue into Adulthood ?

Any case, what the Golden Rule does on the very simplest of levels is help you admit that you need love, you want love and you are a creature of love. The Golden Rule asks you who you are ? It asks at the deepest most fundamental and profound level who are you ? And what do you need ? And what does love mean to you ? So in that sense it is a secret teaching like so many others of course because on the surface the teaching can be read as some kind of transactional, interactional admonition. It is of course that too but what the Golden Rule is also is a question, Who are you and what is best for you etc. ? Thanks :)

Also this falls under what Miss Hepburn calls Self Understanding.