Generally, helping personalities enjoy seeing others do well.
They have an active desire to help others.
A subtle problem with this desire is if the helper is dealing with a narcissist (or worse), fulfilling the desire to help will also involve fulfilling the narcissist’s dark need for people to attend to them.
This is an example of why we must be careful about positive moral feelings in ourselves.
Such feelings probably will not be filed in the mind as “positive moral feelings.” Rather, they might be filed simply as “good feelings” or “relationship satisfaction” or “the right thing to do.”
The narcissist (or worse) feeds off the helper’s good moral instincts to maintain a dead-end desire, a low desire.
You can see this in subcultures as well. Like malignant narcissists, some subcultures will destroy, even seek to destroy, the larger culture that hosts them. They do this for pleasure and/or because it seems to them to be to their advantage.
Buddhist morality is always based on wisdom, on conducting a wise analysis of yourself and any situation.
It is good to be a helping type. But you have to be careful who you help. You really need to analyze it.
If you help a malignant narcissist because it feels right and because you are blinded to their condition by your moral feelings, you are not doing any good. You are probably causing harm.
At the very least, your positive moral feelings are being wasted. Beyond that, a more deserving person is not receiving your help. And beyond that, the narcissist is being strengthened and confirmed in their ways while a ripple effect from all of this goes outward.
Dharmadhatu (Sanskrit: धर्मधातु, “realm of phenomena” or “realm of ultimate reality”) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism denoting the ultimate, all-encompassing nature of reality. It represents the infinite, empty, and interdependent expanse in which all phenomena—both samsaric and nirvanic—arise, abide, and dissolve. Often equated with emptiness (śūnyatā), suchness (tathatā), and the Dharmakāya (the body of ultimate truth), the Dharmadhatu is the fundamental ground of existence and consciousness.
In Tibetan Buddhism, it is associated with the primordial purity of mind and is accessible through the mindstream. When fully realized, it is inseparable from buddha-nature (tathagatagarbha). The Dharmadhatu is also linked to Vairocana, the cosmic Buddha, and is one of the Five Wisdoms—specifically Dharmadhatu wisdom, which perceives the equality and interconnectedness of all things.
The Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism developed the concept into the “Fourfold Dharmadhatu,” describing increasingly profound levels of reality, culminating in the mutual interpenetration of all phenomena.
Alan Wallace
B. Alan Wallace (born 1950) is an American Buddhist scholar, author, and meditation teacher renowned for his work in Tibetan Buddhism and the dialogue between contemplative practices and Western science. Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama in 1975, he trained for 14 years in India and Switzerland before earning a B.A. in physics and philosophy of science from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University.
Wallace is a prominent advocate for integrating first-person contemplative inquiry into scientific study, critiquing materialist reductionism in science. He founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the Centers for Contemplative Research in Colorado, Italy, and New Zealand. He led the landmark Shamatha Project, a scientific study on the effects of long-term meditation.
A prolific writer and translator, his works include The Attention Revolution, Dreaming Yourself Awake, and Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic. He has served as a translator for the Dalai Lama in Mind and Life dialogues with scientists since 1987.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the April jobs report showing 115,000 jobs gained [DATA HERE]. Inside the numbers, federal government employment continued to decline in April (-9,000). Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 348,000, or 11.5 percent since the 2024 election.
The March report was also revised upward from 178,000 to 185,000. The overall jobs gain was double what most ‘experts’ and economic pundits had expected. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3 percent.
Specifically, because I follow the networks of the U.S. intelligence community and how they intersect with political objectives and interests of the U.S. government, I would be remiss if I did not point out that next month a Hollywood production by Stephen Spielberg is being released.
The Spielberg movie is called “Disclosure Day,” and the plot of the movie is the U.S. government informing the American people that alternative life systems, essentially alien entities, exist in our universe. Perhaps it is a coincidental data point, perhaps not. It is, however, a data point. You can decide if the two releases are related.
Today the Dept of War releases declassified files highlighting Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The FILES ARE HERE. The files contain videos, images and witness statements.
A universe teeming with other worlds, realms and dimensions is a significant part of Buddhism. No Buddhist should be alarmed by evidence of other forms of sentience. Most of us, I suspect, will enjoy learning the government possesses proof of alien life, or even interdimensional life functioning right now on planet earth. What they actually reveal and how believable or censored it is, is another story. ABN
While Brian Harpool attempts to use “lawfare” to silence the investigation by suing@RealCandaceO for defamation, we are putting the actual footage of September 10th up against the standard of medical science.
One of the central claims in Harpool’s defamation suit is the allegation that he did perform first aid on Charlie Kirk. But “performing first aid” isn’t a subjective opinioN—it is a medical procedure.
We’ve juxtaposed the footage from that day with an expert emergency medical instructor to show you what should have happened versus what actually did.
The Medical Standard:The Injury: Charlie’s carotid artery was hit. As the instructor explains, carotid blood is bright red and spurts. Without immediate intervention, a person goes unconscious in 20 seconds and dies within 60 seconds.
The Fix: The only way to stop a carotid bleed is to create a gauze “ball,” squish the vessel down, pack the wound, and wrap it in plastic to prevent air bubbles (air embolisms) from entering the bloodstream and stopping the lungs.
The Reality: When you watch the footage of Brian Harpool and the inner circle around Charlie, you don’t see wound packing. You don’t see the specific, high-pressure “squish” required to hold back a carotid spurt. You see a bunch of buffoons who’s main priority seemed to be getting him out of the public eye and chucking him into the back their suv like a sack of luggage. ZERO attempt at first aid.
The Most damning of all is the footage showing the actual EMTs on scene being refused access to Charlie. Why why would they prevent professionals with the proper equipment—gauze, clamps, and plastic seals—from taking over?
The Truth Isn’t Defamation Brian Harpool can sue all he wants, but he can’t sue the anatomy of the human neck. If the carotid was hit, and the protocol shown by the medical instructor was not followed, then “first aid” was not performed. TPUSA is trying to use the legal system to rewrite what our own eyes saw on that video. They want to punish the “noticing” community for pointing out that the people closest to Charlie did the exact opposite of what was needed to save his life.
If a man is spurting bright red blood from the neck, and you spend 60 seconds blocking the medics instead of packing the wound, that isn’t “first aid”—it’s a choice.
RT to demand the full, unedited medical examiner’s report. They can’t sue the facts.
I have wondered about their claim of doing first-aid. Is the spelling Harpool deliberate? I am a world-class, extremely bad speller, so can understand. ABN
So if Trump knows, his apparent demotion of Israel is explained. If he knows, his end-run around Europe and Israel, makes sense. There are many other signs Trump knows the Middle East and Israel and more, and is reorganizing world geopolitics based on pragmatics and USA’s best interests. As a global top hegemon, Trump is doing what he has to do (by KOBK rules). I am speculating. I want the best for USA and the world, in that order. ABN
…[After WW2], monopoly capitalism absorbed the world through debt, trade, media, technology, and corporate consolidation.
The result is the strange hybrid we live under today: corporate communism from above.
Private ownership for the few. Managed dependency for the many.
Who Won World War II?
The ordinary soldier did not win.
The bombed civilians did not win.
The raped women of Eastern Europe did not win.
The Christians sent to gulags did not win.
The British public did not win. Despite Britain’s continued role within the postwar international order, the public was left with heavy debt and prolonged austerity.
The American people did not win either—over 400,000 were killed, while U.S. institutions emerged with unprecedented federal debt and a permanently expanded war economy.
Poland suffered catastrophic losses during the war, with an estimated 5.5 to 6 million people killed—around one-sixth of its population—yet did not emerge as a fully independent state in the postwar settlement, but became part of the communist sphere of influence.
The Germans did not win. The country and its major urban and civilian centres were devastated by sustained bombing, millions were displaced or expelled from Eastern Europe. An estimated 6–7 million German soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war and its immediate aftermath, and between 12 and 14 million ethnic Germans were displaced or expelled from Eastern Europe, with many forced into occupied Germany while others were deported eastward into communist labour camps or used as forced labour.
With over 20 million deaths, the Soviet population—including Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Baltic peoples, and others—certainly did not win, if by “victory” we mean the experience of the people rather than the outcome for the Soviet state.
The winners were the institutions that emerged stronger: central banks, military contractors, intelligence agencies, supranational bodies, ideological bureaucracies, and the financial interests able to profit from destruction and reconstruction alike.
The war did not end in 1945. It changed form.
The battlefield shifted—from territory to finance, from armies to institutions, from open conflict to systems of management and global governance.
The old empires flew flags. The modern order operates through frameworks.
Institutions such as the United Nations matter not because they command openly, but because they reflect a broader postwar principle: that sovereignty is increasingly shaped, guided, and constrained through supranational structures.
I believe almost all thoughtful people can agree with the highlighted paragraph above. Who are the strongest players inside that system and what goals are they pursuing — these are the questions which face us today. Who controls the propaganda, who owns its outlets; who advocates for censorship; who uses established institutions to control large populations; who controls those institutions and how were they built, and how have they been taken over? What can possibly replace insider control of major institutions, and where does the power lie to do that? I don’t see it. We the people cannot do that. We the people can only act effectively when largely united, a rare occurrence. There may be a role for some future iteration of AI to remove most if not all of the corruption, contradictions, frictions and inefficiencies within regional and global systems. I imagine we humans will try to do that and might succeed. A good version of a world like that will provide for everyone without stifling anyone. At core, most of our problems are fairly simple, so it could happen. ABN
Sent by a friend, who commented ‘mildly interesting’, which I agree with. Still mildly worth a look because we rarely get honest views of Israel from people who live there or know it well ABN
“Soluble vs insoluble” is one of the most enduring oversimplifications in nutrition. Two fibers in the same label bucket can do completely opposite things in your body.
Fiber has at least four properties that vary independently:
Solubility (does it dissolve in water?)
Viscosity (does it form a gel?)
Fermentability (do colon bacteria eat it?)
Physical structure (intact or particulate?) Each property drives a different outcome. The label binary collapses all four into one.
β-Glucan (oats, barley). Soluble, highly viscous, moderately fermented. Lowers LDL via bile acid sequestration. The FDA-approved oat health claim is built on this property.
Psyllium. Soluble, highly viscous, poorly fermented. Survives intact through the colon. Lowers LDL. Normalizes stool (works for both constipation and diarrhea).
Inulin / FOS (chicory, onions, garlic). Soluble but non-viscous. Highly fermentable. Bifidobacteria use it as substrate to produce SCFAs. Minimal LDL effect. Can bloat.
Resistant starch (cooked-cooled potato, green banana). Insoluble but highly fermentable. Produces butyrate, the primary fuel for colonocytes (~70% of their ATP).
Why the binary fails:
Inulin and psyllium are both labeled “soluble fiber.” Inulin ferments completely, produces SCFAs, has only minimal LDL effects. Psyllium passes through largely intact and lowers LDL via bile acid sequestration. They share one property and differ on every other one that matters. Practical translation. Match the fiber to the outcome:
LDL drop → viscous fibers (psyllium, β-glucan, raw guar gum)
Microbiome support → fermentable fibers (inulin, FOS, resistant starch)
Regular stools → either viscous gel-formers or coarse insoluble particles
The label binary doesn’t tell you which is which. The properties do.
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