“Chung-kung asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, 'It is, when you go abroad, to behave to every one as if you were receiving a great guest; to employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice; not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself; to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family.' Chung-kung said, 'Though I am deficient in intelligence and vigour, I will make it my business to practise this lesson.'”
Analects 12:2 · Legge
Translation: James Legge, The Chinese Classics: Confucian Analects (1861, revised 1893), public domain, via Project Gutenberg (ebook 3330). Reproduced in full and in context; the sayings 15:23 (the negative Golden Rule), 6:28 (ren), 4:15 (the one thread) and 2:4 (the stages of life) were validated against the source before publishing. References follow Legge’s standard book:chapter numbering.
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How this connects to Jesus
Asked about perfect virtue, Confucius answered in part: do not do to others as you would not wish done to yourself. Jesus gave the rule its fullest form: love your neighbour as yourself (Mark 12:31), and love one another as I have loved you (John 13:34). Both call us outward, past ourselves, toward the good of the other.