I don't know, why do you keep asking this?
I don't treat anyone or want to treat anyone in any specific way. I believe the answer would be no, really doesn't matter to me to treat someone the way I want to treat myself. People can mind their own business and do what ever they want. I just keep my relations light and nonproblematic. Also I don't treat myself in any specific way, I just do what I want and try to inscrease my awareness. What do you mean by "treating yourself" anyway?
Uplifting choices, hmm. It would be something similar to what you described. But not only actions, also thoughts. Sometimes the difficult part is actually to realise that I am choosing something almost in every moment. Most important choices are about the inner direction and realising when something is hindering or indulgent.
Okay, it seems this method isn't working as well as I had hoped. Its fascinating how easily misunderstanding can occur. If I had a lot more time I think we could do it, but I'll just sum it all up.
You treat yourself a certain way by increasing your awareness, is what you said. The question could then be phrased as would you do things to others that might make it harder for them to increase their awareness? For instance deliberately deceiving them for your own selfish gain? You said you try not to do anything that makes your own life, or the life of others more difficult. This is the same principle in different wording.
What I'm looking for is an acknowledgement of the importance of the ethic of reciprocity. This ethic is pretty universal. It has been formulated in many ways.
In India: "Hence, (keeping these in mind), by self-control and by making dharma (right conduct) your main focus, treat others as you treat yourself."
Buddhism:
Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
—Sutta Nipata 705
One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.
—Dhammapada 10. Violence
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
—Udanavarga 5:18
Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.[48]
Scientology:
Thus today we have two golden rules for happiness: 1. Be able to experience anything; and 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
—Scientology: A New Slant on Life, Two Rules for Happy Living
The trick is not to treat others as if they are the same as you. The trick is to treat them as different from you, but equal. To
see how you and all others are equal you center yourself, from this place you'll remember your own maximum significance. You'll see through the surface. Its from this place you can see what you need, and see what the Other needs.
The Other (capital 'O'), as I am using it here, is any being outside of you, that is foreign to you. Once you
see to their essence they are no long quite as Other as they were. Anytime we say that someone is different and therefor should be treated as 'less than', then we dehumanize them. Dehumanization, which for simplicity sake we will say is basically the same as objectification, is how we create the Other. There is an inherent difficulty in seeing past our own limited self-centered experience, such that any being outside of me is almost always a little foreign.
To be moral is not to live in isolation, it implies an interaction between more than one being. I must be most fully my own highest significance, while using identification to put myself into the place of the other being then I under-stand them.
Now when we talk about right and wrong, or up and down, light and heavy. We presuppose the ability to choose. This is fine when we are sitting by ourselves in a quite room. When undisturbed much seems possible, but then we go out somewhere. Someone yells at you, and you get angry, you go home, and unintentionally you take out your anger on others.
On the other hand. You said you do what increases awareness. If you really are aware of being aware, then you might also remember that others are not aware. If they wanted to be they would have to struggle to be aware just as you. You and the Other are not so different. Now you can enter into the Other's position, when you under-stand where they are coming from it is possible to not take their actions personally. It is now possible to make a deliberate choice. The choice to remain internally indifferent.
I say internally indifferent, because what if you have to appear angry? I have had situations where someone just would not listen until they saw me angry. Perhaps they were of the confrontational sort, maybe they didn't think I took them seriously until they saw strong emotion, or perhaps they needed to be shocked out of what ever they were going through. In other situations I have had to put on a smile to sell a product, or any number of other roles that the stage of human interaction requires.
Still I want to remain internally free of this role playing. Unless I'm using the role to change something internal. The inner moves freely while the outer must align to whatever the situation requires. If the inner can move freely it is free to align to something of real substance, the Spirit. One tool to aid us in separating the inner world from the outer is inner silence. Inner silence will bring temporary stillness to the inner world, eventually the external world will no longer dictate the conditions of your inner life.
Do you see it now, how the Golden Rule can only be properly implemented with Gurdjieff's external considering, and how all this gives us the ability to be moral?
The proper practice of external considering sets up the appropriate conditions for a person to enter the Flow. That is it frees up your internal energy, and minimizes unnecessary external challenges. It minimizes the tendency to be self absorbed. It requires being intensely in the moment. The ability to be mindful of what your doing. All these things are the result of techniques that improve our energetic condition, and as a result of the improved energetic condition we are more moral people.
Yes being more moral behaviorally can improve our internal energetic condition to some degree, but often such change doesn't last. The reason is your inner energetic condition dictates what happens on the outside. If you only try to change the outer choices to change the inner, then you wont get any where fast. It is much easier to change the inside.
Morality is a word we apply to describe certain types of behavior. Yet morality is really just an energetic condition. I think the message here is that we don't need to think in terms of morality, which is often very relativistic. That is what is right or wrong varies from situation to situation, and person to person. We are all equal, but different. On the other hand, improve your own personal energy, change yourself, and you will be more moral.