sn55.7:4.1 “And what is the explanation of the Dhamma that applies to oneself?
sn55.7:4.2 It’s when a noble disciple reflects:
sn55.7:4.3 ‘I want to live and don’t want to die; I want to be happy and recoil from pain.
sn55.7:4.4 Since this is so, if someone were to take my life, I wouldn’t like that.
sn55.7:4.5 But others also want to live and don’t want to die; they want to be happy and recoil from pain. So if I were to take the life of someone else, they wouldn’t like that either.
sn55.7:4.6 The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others.
sn55.7:4.7 Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?’
sn55.7:4.8 Reflecting in this way, they give up killing living creatures themselves. And they encourage others to give up killing living creatures, praising the giving up of killing living creatures.
sn55.7:4.9 So their bodily behavior is purified in three points.