Buddhism:

Wisdom
  1. Right View
  2. Right Intention
Ethical Conduct
  3. Right Speech
  4. Right Action
  5. Right Livelihood
Mental Development
  6. Right Effort
  7. Right Mindfulness
  8. Right Concentration

Huna:

   1. IKE (ee-kay) - The world is what you think it is.
   2. KALA - There are no limits.
   3. MAKIA (mah-kee-ah) - Energy flows where attention goes.
   4. MANAWA (man-ah-wah) - Now is the moment of power.
   5. ALOHA - To love is to be happy with (someone or something).
   6. MANA - All power comes from within.
   7. PONO - Effectiveness is the measure of truth.

Those are positive and applicable, nicely shaven by Occam's Razor.


Now the Two Commandments and the Eight Prohibitions:

   1. You shall have no other Gods but me.
   2. You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it.
   3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
   4. You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy.
   5. Respect your father and mother.
   6. You must not kill.
   7. You must not commit adultery.
   8. You must not steal.
   9. You must not give false evidence against your neighbour.
  10. You must not be envious of your neighbour's goods. You shall not be envious of his house nor his wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.


See, the problem with that is stated often as "Do not think of a pink giraffe". NLP taken as an attempt to describe observations (not instructions of manipulations) has filled books with it.

So, after reading those ten rules, my imagination was brought to murder, theft, envy and what not, and leaving me behind with an unspoken threat (what if I fail to obey?).


George Carlin made a good point in my eyes as he attempted to reduce this set of ten rather arbitrary rules to two significant ones in a positive way .

And yes, I have seen Zeitgeist and find it almost amusing that some Monotheistic Churches put so much effort on embellishing something that is actually worshiping the sun.


The other thing is that the Eightfold Path and the Huna are directed to a spiritual development and the actions of human beings are a consequence of that. They describe a stance.

In the Christian Teachings, I have problems to find such clear statements directed towards spiritual development. The writings (the Bible for example) is a collection of stories which may imply such a stance. Finding this stance (or maybe Gods will) is subject of the exegesis. This means that Gods will can only be understood by interpretation. This sounds like a contradiction to me (but I do not go for the whole God-stuff at all anyway).


As a safety clause I'd like to cite: De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est.