Precept of Cao Đài
Refrain, and refine.
Five precepts (no killing, stealing, lying, luxury, adultery) and vegetarian days each month — the adept's ladder rises by subtraction.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Cao Đài's discipline is graded by the practitioner's level: five precepts against killing, stealing, lying, luxury, and adultery for all, ten days of vegetarianism monthly for the ordinary adherent, and full vegetarianism for those pursuing the higher path. The ladder is explicit, which is characteristic — the religion tends to make structure visible where others leave it implicit.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
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Neminatha.
Jainism · figure
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The plain dress went; the peace position did not.
The Brethren in Christ
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Ahimsa — do no harm.
Hinduism
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Compassion extends to all sentient beings.
Buddhism · core tenet
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The suffering of living things.
Judaism
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Lent — the forty days.
Christianity · rite
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