At least with Buddhist teachings, I'd definitely agree. Similarly with some of the Ancient Greek schools' teachings (Epicureans, Stoics, etc), even in parts of

At least with Buddhist teachings, I'd definitely agree. Similarly with some of the Ancient Greek schools' teachings (Epicureans, Stoics, etc), even in parts of their mysticism. I don't know enough about, say, Hinduism, Taoism, or Shinto to comment on those, but I get the impression they're fairly similar in that regard, too. However, I can't help but feel that a lot of Abrahamic teachings seem to be mostly about increasing the mimetic fitness of the faith. For instance: "go forth and multiply" is always good for keeping the size of your congregation up; evangelism likewise; "you shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk" reads to me as "don't eat your future dairy animals", a handy survival tip in the bronze age; and so forth.