The Ten Commandments
As we are collecting wisdom from different sources, which the main goal to become the best version of ourselves, I thought we could include the 10 Commandments in our library of wisdom.1
I am the Lord thy God. Thou shall not have strange gods before Me.
Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day.
Honor thy father and mother.
Thou shall not kill.
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Thou shall not steal.
Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife.
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s goods.
If you are of Catholic or Christian faith, the 10 Commandments was probably the first set of “rules” you learned as a young child and most likely impacted how you would live your life and is still impacting you now. We are not theologists here and it’s not my intention to convert you. We will most likely include such wisdom from other Faiths, just turns out I started with what is more familiar to me. Our intention here to unravel the collected wisdom and find ways to implement them into our lives and possibly create our own personal code of conduct.
As an example, as a first thought experiment, you’ll find how much of the wisdom we already looked at from different Martial Arts Masters have similar “rules”, shall we say. The concept of Honor for example tends to be included in most of them, including these Commandments. Some also address a Higher Being and family, such as Hwarang’s code of ethics, you’ll find the 10 Commandments also mentions God and Family is commandments 1 and 4.
Although rapped in religion, and all the package that comes with it, you’ll find that we are all, more or less, trying to live by the same rules.
I understand there are different sources and plenty of theologists who have studied and might even adjust or correct. But this is not the goal of this post. We are simply collecting it in our library as we will discuss these at some point in the future.