Day 61empathygolden-rulereciprocity
Empathy in Action
This is perhaps the most famous single sentence in the Analects—the negative golden rule. The character 恕 (shù) combines 'heart' (心) and 'like' (如), suggesting 'as if your heart were theirs.' Confucius distills a lifetime of ethics into one practice: before acting toward another, imagine yourself on the receiving end.