This is a Place of Love
ShivaHeart is a place for seekers of truth and love.
In order to facilitate the transformative work of tantra, participants must feel safe enough to be vulnerable. That means that we always assume good intent, that we do our best to be helpful, and that we always treat each other with kindness.These are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and cultivate a vibrant, supportive, and mindful online community.
Our guidelines draw wisdom from the Four Immeasurables and the Ten Perfections, traditional sources of guidance for conduct in the Buddhist tantric tradition.
Cultivate Loving-Kindness:
- Engage in respectful dialogue: Always listen actively and consider different perspectives before forming an opinion. Avoid personal attacks, insults, or humor meant to offend or belittle.
- Promote inclusivity and acceptance: Welcome diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and actively resist discrimination or prejudice. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
- Respect each other: Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
Cultivate Compassion:
- Show sensitivity to suffering: Acknowledge and offer support to those experiencing challenges or difficulties. Avoid making light of others’ struggles.
- Offer support and empathy: Be open to listening to others and offering words of encouragement, understanding, and hope.
- Assume good intent: For communication to occur, a message must be received in the way it was meant. Work with a default that conflict comes from incomplete communication or understanding until you have solid evidence otherwise.
Cultivate Empathetic Joy:
- Celebrate others’ good fortune: Rejoice in the happiness and successes of others, without feeling envious or competitive.
- Spread positivity and encouragement: Offer sincere praise and appreciation for the contributions and strengths of others.
- Foster collaboration and cooperation: Work together to achieve common goals, supporting each other’s efforts and celebrating collective victories.
Cultivate Equanimity:
- Maintain composure in difficult situations: Avoid reacting impulsively or emotionally to negativity or conflict.
- Embrace differences and disagreements: Understand that diverse viewpoints are natural and valuable, and approach them with respectful curiosity.
- Practice mindful acceptance: Accept the flow of experience, recognizing that change is inevitable and that attachments only lead to suffering.
Cultivate Wisdom:
- Fact-check and cite sources: Share information responsibly, do your best to verify its accuracy and attribute it to its original source.
- Adhere to the truth: Don’t claim expertise you don’t have, misrepresent yourself or your background, or twist facts to fit a narrative.
- Discern fact and feeling: Clearly represent opinions and feelings, don’t pass them off as facts.
Cultivate Discipline:
- Report violations: If you see any behavior that violates these guidelines, please report it to the moderators without hesitation. Don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.
- Respect ShivaHeart: Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.
- Be tidy: Please make posts in the appropriate categories, and avoid cross-posting. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.
- Post your own stuff: You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.
- Keep it classy: While we embrace the beauty of the human body and its potential for erotic energy, this is not a place for content that is explicitly pornographic. If you’re not sure, please reach out to a moderator.
Rule of thumb: If there’s no erection, it’s totally fine. If there’s an erection but it’s not the focus of the image or video, you’re probably good, but please tag it #nsfw. If the erection is a focus, it may be a better fit for your Twitter.
Terms of Service
Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against the unenlightened. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. By using this service, you agree to abide by our TOS.