Live with care — for yourself, for others, for what holds you.
Twelve traditions, in their own words.

A map of twelve wisdom traditions: where they converge, where they disagree, and what each preserves in its own words.

All twelve traditions hold that every person has inviolable worth. They give at least five irreconcilable reasons why.

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179 principles · 29 shared themes · 13 real disagreements

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Traditions

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29 themes · 13 differences

Map

The Golden Rule is the strongest agreement here — all twelve affirm it; five scriptures, almost the same sentence.

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17 concerns · 41 jewels

Compass

Seventeen concerns the traditions keep arriving at.

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"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule."

— Dhammapada 5

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Each quote is verbatim from the edition the corpus audits — follow the citation to its tradition.

Twelve Traditions