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2 more cents,

This is one of the most beautiful suttas I have ever read.

I wish it can give some guidance so to reflect about a precept:

Here householders, a noble disciple reflects thus:

I am one who wishes to live, who does not wish to die. I desire happiness and dislike suffering. Since I am one who wishes to live... and dislike suffering, if someone were to take my life, that would not be pleasing and agreeable to me.

Now, if I were to take the life of another -of one who wishes to live, who does not wish to die, who desires happiness and dislikes suffering- that would not be desirable and agreeable to him, too.

What is undesirable and disagreeable to me is undesirable and disagreeable to others, too. How can I inflict upon another what is undesirable and disagreeable to me?

Having reflected thus, he himself refrains from harming life, exhorts others to refrain from harming life, and speaks in prise of refraining from harming life.

Thus, his bodily conduct is purified in three respects.

SN 55.7