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Community Guidelines
Here are key excerpts from our community content guidelines, which are designed to help create a positive environment for everyone:
1. Please be courteous at all times. If you’re engaged in any kind of discussion, be as prepared to listen as you are to express yourself. Remember that there’s always a real person behind a computer/device screen, and they are likely quite different from you.
2. Think twice before posting anything that’s likely to give offence or be inflammatory. That doesn’t promote good conversation. If you’re upset at something you see here, perhaps let a little time pass before responding. Bear in mind this isn’t a space to vent our views, it’s about exploring respectfully with others what it means to be a Buddhist within our community and in the modern world generally.
3. We may remove posts or comments that are considered off-topic.
4. Everyone has off-moments, and we’ll always try to be in friendly dialogue with you if a problem arises with one of your contributions. But we reserve the right to remove posts and comments (or even suspend user accounts) when we feel these guidelines are not observed.
Whatever you contribute, we very much encourage you to think about it in the light of the Buddhist ethical precepts around ‘Right Speech’. These encourage communication that is: truthful, kindly and gracious, helpful and harmonious.
Moderation
We try to keep things light when it comes to moderation of posts and comments within this shared space. And we ask the community itself to lead with this. If you have seen something that concerns you, please feel free to contact us. However, we do ask that you bear in mind the following guidelines, which will help preserve a harmonious atmosphere throughout the site:
Remember there is always a person behind the post or comment you’re objecting to. They may just be having a bad day… If you’re upset, perhaps let a little time pass before responding to them or us.
Try contacting the person first in a spirit of open, courteous engagement to see if hearing their perspective changes your own view of things, or if hearing yours changes theirs.
Take care to make sure what you are asking us to look at is actually against the spirit of the group or the site itself, rather than simply a difference of view or of personal taste. If in doubt, ask a friend and/or the administrator of the group.
The most important things about this is the first bit: we ask the community to lead with this. That means you! Thanks for helping us promote good conversations on The Buddhist Centre Online.
Read the full set of Community Guidelines
BAM Suggested actions guide 2015
Hi, I wanted to contribute something about actions to encourage veganism as part of BAM. I’ve been vegan since I was 16 and am glad to see more awareness of veganism. I also think its quite important and responsible, if we’re encouraging people to try veganism, to provide good nutritional information alongside that suggestion, particularly about essential nutrients like B12. For example, its very easy to take a weekly sublingual B12 supplement to keep healthy levels, and there are good algae based alternatives to fish oils for those who need a high intake of essential fatty acids. Without this information a person could be put off trying to change to a vegan diet, or could make the change but potentialy be compromising their own health. As an example of the sort of thing I mean, I’m attaching a link to a short but helpful article that provides reliable nutritional advice about vegan diets:
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=veganandvegetari;id=48;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoodsforlife%2Eorg%2Euk%2Fnutritionist%2Fvegetarian%2Dnutritionist%2Ehtml
If you go to this link you then need to scroll down and click on:
Key Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrients for Healthy Diets - that will take you to the article.