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JUDGE NOT
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World Scripture
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JUDGE NOT
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Scripture cautions us not to be harsh and judgmental of others' faults, even
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where they are evident, because neither are we perfect and free from error.
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The admonition not to regard the speck in your neighbor's eye before removing
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the log from your own eye finds parallels in many scriptures. Rather than
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justify ourselves and blame others, we should look into ourselves for having
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such feelings of resentment. We should look into ourselves for where we may
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have been at fault, and from that starting point we can sincerely strive for
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reconciliation.
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The vile are ever prone to detect the faults of others, though they be as small
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as mustard seeds, and persistently shut their eyes against their own, though
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they be as large as Vilva fruit.
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1.Hinduism. Garuda Purana 112
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Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment that you pronounce
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you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why
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do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log
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that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the
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speck out of your eye," when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite,
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first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take
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the speck out of your brother's eye.
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2.Christianity. Matthew 7.1-5
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A man holding a basket of eggs does not dance on stones.
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3.African Traditional Religions. Buji Proverb (Nigeria)
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Easily seen are others' faults, hard indeed to see are one's own. Like chaff
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one winnows others' faults, but one's own one hides, as a crafty fowler
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conceals himself by camouflage.
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He who sees others' faults is ever irritable--his corruptions grow. He is far
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from the destruction of the corruptions.
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4.Buddhism. Dhammapada 252-53
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Happy is the person who finds fault with himself instead of finding fault with
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others.
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5.Islam. Hadith
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If you want to criticize someone, first criticize yourself more than three
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times.
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6.Unification Church. Sun Myung Moon, 9-30-69
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Confucius said, "The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he
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does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse
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of this."
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7.Confucianism. Analects 12.16
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Confucius said, "The good man does not grieve that other people do not
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recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize
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theirs."
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8.Confucianism. Analects 1.16
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Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your
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brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God; as it is
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written,
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As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me
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and every tongue shall confess to God.
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So each of us shall give account of himself to God.
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9.Christianity. Romans 14.10-12
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Hadith: Cf. Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi 12, p. 612. Analects 12.16: Cf. Analects
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12.21, p. 631; Doctrine of the Mean 14, p. 590; Tao Te Ching 79, p. 850.
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Analects 1.16: Cf. Analects 15.20, pp. 589f.
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He who treads the Path in earnest
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Sees not the mistakes of the world;
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If we find fault with others
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We ourselves are also in the wrong.
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When other people are in the wrong, we should ignore it,
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For it is wrong for us to find fault.
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By getting rid of this habit of fault-finding
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We cut off a source of defilement.
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When neither hatred nor love disturb our mind
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Serenely we sleep.
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10.Buddhism. Sutra of Hui Neng 2
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Why should you try to mend
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The failings of the world, sirs?
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Correct your bodies first, each one of you!
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Correct your minds first, each one!
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Lord Shiva does not approve of
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Those who shed crocodile tears
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To their neighbor's grief.
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11.Hinduism. Basavanna, Vachana 24
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Censuring others and praising himself, concealing good qualities present in
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others and proclaiming noble qualities absent in himself, he causes them to
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have low status. Disparaging himself and praising others, proclaiming
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qualities which are present in others and not proclaiming those that are absent
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in himself, with humility and modesty he lifts them to high status. No
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obstacle should be created in the [spiritual] development of others.
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12.Jainism. Tattvarthasutra 6.25-27
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Do not judge thy comrade until thou hast stood in his place.
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13.Judaism. Mishnah, Abot 2.5
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Early in the morning [Jesus] came again to the temple; all the people came to
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him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a
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woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said
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to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in
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the Law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?" This
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they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him.
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Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued
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to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you
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be the first to throw a stone at her." And once more he bent down and wrote
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with his finger on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away, one by
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one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman
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standing before him. Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they?
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Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither
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do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."
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14.Christianity. John 8.2-11
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Sutra of Hui Neng 2: Cf. Tao Te Ching 79, p. 850. Abot 2.5: A saying of Hillel
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(lst. c. B.C.E.). John 8.2-11: According to tradition, Jesus wrote on the
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ground the sins of each accuser.
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