Mr. Bernanke has been known to recite the first precept of the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm.
So there is a corollary to this first precept: when we get it wrong, we correct ourselves as quickly and forthrightly as possible.
"No killing is the first precept of Buddhism and must never be violated," the Chinese Tibetologist Li Decheng wrote in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.
This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
Our immediate duty is formulated in the first precept of natural law, that God is to be worshipped.
The first precept of the law of nature is then for each of us, pursuing our own interest, 'to endeavor peace, as far as he has hope of attaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek, and use, all helps, and advantages of war.' (Ibid., Ch. 14).
In the same way as the first principle in theoretical reason, the principle of non-contradiction, is founded on the concept of 'being' as first known in the theoretical realm, the first principle in practical reason, the first precept of natural law: "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided," is founded on the concept of 'good' as first known in the practical realm.
In Buddhism, though the first precept is not to destroy any form of life but there is no single answer to the abortion question because of the belief in rebirth through the transfer of karma, a fetus is believed to carry the karmic identity of a previous life.
With regard to the environment, karma is associated with the first precept in the ten Buddhist prohibitions – not taking life, especially the hunting of wild animals.
Its impossible (as per the first precept below) to walk around without squashing microbes, insects that you don't see underground etc.
