In Lak'ech - You Are My Other Self
The fundamental teaching of human interconnection and mutual responsibility.
In Lak'ech Ala K'in: 'I am you, and you are me.' This teaching establishes that harming another harms yourself, and helping another helps yourself. It is the foundation of Mayan ethics, eliminating the possibility of victimizing others without consequence.
In Lak'ech Ala K'in - I am you, and you are me.
In Lak'ech expresses the fundamental Mayan principle of human interconnection.
Living Tradition
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- What Maya wisdom says about balance
I am you, and you are me. Harm done to another is counted as harm done to yourself, which removes the idea of a victimless wrong.
- What the Maya tradition says about envy and comparison
I am you, and you are me. Taken at its word, envy becomes incoherent: resenting another's good is resenting your own. The tradition states this as the foundation of its ethics, not as a sentiment.