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Original definition: Use thought and speech truthfully in ways directed toward welfare rather than cruelty, vanity, or avoidable harm.

Original definition: Do not take, desire to take, or wrongfully withhold what belongs or is owed to another.

Original definition: Limit accumulation that deprives others, dominates attention, or exceeds a responsible standard of living.

Original definition: Cultivate cleanliness externally and replace destructive mental habits with constructive ones.

Original definition: Accept effort or hardship for another's real welfare without seeking repayment, status, or recognition.

Original definition: Treat honesty, purity, sincerity, and ethical conduct as prerequisites for credible religious or healing work.

Original definition: Love without making personal advantage, possession, praise, or repayment the controlling motive.

Original definition: Release hatred and seek the moral good even of persons who oppose, injure, or misunderstand.

Original definition: Keep private information received through a helping or spiritual relationship in sacred confidence.

Original definition: Develop inward discipline so conscience and principle direct conduct without constant external compulsion.

Original definition: Do not permit partisan, national, ethnic, or military allegiance to override peace, impartiality, and religious conscience.

Original definition: Reject racial and ethnic hatred and treat people of every language, color, and nation with equal spiritual concern.

Original definition: Avoid games and schemes in which hoped-for profit depends materially on the uncompensated loss of others.

Original definition: Strengthen households through shared study, responsible example, communication, fidelity, and care.

Original definition: Avoid taking up weapons or joining institutions whose purpose requires killing or partisan warfare.

Original definition: Treat inner freedom as inseparable from wisdom, accountability, and concern for the consequences of one's choices.

Original definition: Respect each person's freedom to test teachings, follow conscience, or choose a different religious direction.

Original definition: Give practical service to people, communities, animals, and the wider living world as gratitude for life.

Original definition: Cultivate unconditional, wise, and responsible love that extends beyond preference or personal reward.

Original definition: Examine spiritual claims through sincere practice, reflection, experience, and responsible judgment rather than coercion.