Talk:Ahimsa

Quotes requiring editorial work

 * All breathing, existing, living, snteint creatures should not be slain nr treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This the pure unchangeable law.
 * Sutrakritanga, in Jainism religious text quoted in "Humanimal", p. 144
 * requires additional source information

avoiding overlap
There are several related but different articles: non-violence, harm or harmlessness, Nonviolent resistance

Quotes here should be about ahimsa (quotes using the word ahimsa, or at least english translations where the original word is ahimsa).

to avoid overlap, quotes that are more generally about non-violence, harm or harmlessness, such as the Hippocrates do no harm quote, should be moved to these articles.

Should quotes that are are about Gandhi's nonviolence but do not use the word ahimsa, be moved to nonviolence or to Nonviolent resistance, to avoid overlap?

Opinions?

--ᘙ (talk) 19:43, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


 * An extremely valid and useful observation. I must admit when I first came across the wikiquote article Harmlessness and it has no directly associated Wikipedia article ( is a studio album). Obviously Harmlessness and Harmless are both pointing to the same Wikipedia article . Ultimately I think I used my logic to decide that Harmless and Harmlessness were not precisely the same thing and created noticed the pre-existing Wikidata item  and I someone else linked  Q84427501 to the Wikiquote article Harmlessness on 16 January 2023. (I thought I did this but now remember it was someone else who found this and did the sitelink for which I now remember ending up relieved not having to sort this one out myself). I give you my best wishes trying to sort out these closely related concepts/thingies whatever. -- Djm-leighpark(a)talk 12:32, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks. I agree that Harmless and Harmlessness are not precisely the same thing. --ᘙ (talk) 13:04, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

quotes that needs verification
The doctrine of Ahimsa does not say "Kill not" it says, "Love all". Buddha said "Love all, so that you may not wish to kill any" This is a positive way of stating the principle of Ahimsa. The Buddhas' Ahimsa is quite in keeping with his middle path. To put it differently, the Buddha made a distinction between Principle and Rule. He did not make Ahimsa a matter of Rule. He enunciated it as a matter of Principle or way of life. A principle leaves you freedom to act. A rule does not. Rule either breaks you, or you break the rule. ᘙ (talk) 13:30, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

"No religion in the World has explained the principle of Ahiṃsā so deeply and systematically as is discussed with its applicability in every human life in Jainism. As and when the benevolent principle of Ahiṃsā or non-violence will be ascribed for practice by the people of the world to achieve their end of life in this world and beyond, Jainism is sure to have the uppermost status and Mahāvīra is sure to be respected as the greatest authority on Ahiṃsā."