Ten Commandments and Eightfold Path for Inter-religious Dialogue

Shifu attended an South Bay Interfaith meeting today, and in part of the meeting we discussed the "Ten Commandments for Inter-religious Dialogue". It was quite interesting. Here they are:

First Commandment: The primary purpose of dialogue is to change and grow in the perception and understanding of reality and then to act accordingly.

Second Commandment: Interreligious dialogue must be a two-sided project—within each religious community and between religious communities.

Third Commandment: Each participant must come to the dialogue with complete honesty and sincerity.

Fourth Commandment: Each participant must assume a similar complete honesty and sincerity in the other partners.

Fifth Commandment: Each participant must define him/herself. Conversely—the one interpreted must be able to recognize him/herself in the interpretation.

Sixth Commandment: Each participant must come to the dialogue with no hard-and-fast assumptions as to where the points of disagreement are.

Seventh Commandment: Dialogue can take place only between equals, or par cum pari.

Eighth Commandment: Dialogue can take place only on the basis of mutual trust.

Ninth Commandment: Persons entering into interreligious dialogue must be at least minimally self-critical of both themselves and their own religious traditions.

Tenth Commandment: Each participant eventually must attempt to experience the partner’s religion “from within.”

This is called "Dialogue Decalogue" written by Professor Leonard Swidler. This is a good beginning. Now can you come up with a "Four Noble Truths" or "Eightfold Path" of inter-religious dialogue and, more importantly, cooperation? That is, after fruitful dialogues, how do we apply the ideas of Eightfold Path to bring different religions together to work on projects of common human interest?