Ritual and Relation
The Analects of Confucius
A Philosophical Translation by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
— Analects 15:24
Why it belongs
Order as cultivated relation: ritual, role, and reverence as the forms through which a humane society holds together.
Echoes across the paths
The same structure, carried in other images—one tradition's metaphor mapping onto another's.