If in this lifetime you do not encounter a spiritual teacher, that is your fate.
If you encounter one but lack faith, that is a regret.
If you have faith but have not received the essential instructions, that is a regret.
If you have received the instructions but have not explored them deeply, that is a regret.
If you have studied them deeply but do not put them into practice, that too is a regret.
Wisdom is for protecting oneself; compassion is for protecting others. This is what the cultivation of wisdom and merit actually means - neither one can be left out.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/26
Tibetan ཤེས་རབ་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ།
Chinese 福慧雙修
Everyone is worried about getting deceived by others, but that’s not such a big deal. The trap of self-deception has no end - that’s terrifying. Therefore, I think it is very important that we do not live each day in a foggy state of mind.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/25
Tibetan རང་མགོ་རང་གིས་མ་བསྐོར་བ།
Chinese 不要自己騙自己
To benefit sentient beings, those who are able should act; those who are not should pray. If you keep these two in mind, all will be well.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/20
Tibetan གཞན་དོན་བྱེད་ཟེར་བ་དེ།
Chinese 利益眾生
The majority of contemporary Nyingmapas are quite content with accepting the Self-Empty School.
Fundamentally speaking, in terms of the views of our past lineage masters, we should be holding hands with the Other-Empty School. What’s going on? I’m confused.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/11
Tibetan དེང་སང་སྔ་འགྱུར་བ་མང་པོ་ཞིག་གིས་རང་སྟོང་གི་ལྟ་བ་ལ་ཐུགས་དགྱེས་དགྱེས་གནང་གིན་ཡོད་པ་འདྲ།
Chinese 手牽手
If one does not know how to properly apply the two truths, attachment to conventional truth becomes the cause of samsara, while attachment to ultimate truth becomes the obstacle to liberation.
If one can do the opposite, however, accumulation of merit causes renunciation of samsara, while accumulation of wisdom brings the liberation of nirvana.
Integration or no integration - whatever! I’ve got a headache!
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/10
Tibetan བདེན་གཉིས་དེ་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་དུ་མ་ཤེས་ན།
Chinese 二諦不會運用的話
Those targeting objects cut through with reasoning and emphasize the empty nature are the Self-Empty School.
Those targeting objects cut through with the path and emphasize the pure, luminous nature are the Other-Empty School.
Those who target both, and whose hearing, contemplation, and practice, are undistorted, are Nyingmapas.
All three will eventually achieve the integration of the two truths.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/09
Tibetan ཡང་མཐར་འབབ་ས་བདེན་གཉིས་ཟུང་འཇུག་ལ་ཐུག་རེད།
Chinese 都會達到二諦雙融
To insist that all phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa must be measured in terms of valid versus invalid cognition is to throw the integration of the two truths right out the window.
This is very unpleasant for the general public to hear… and deservingly so. It can’t be helped.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/08
Conventional truth is like your meal.
Ultimate truth is like moderating your portion size.
When you have both, you gain good health.
The integration of the two truths is nothing more than this.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/07
Tibetan ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ་དེ་ཁ་ལག་ལྟ་བུ་ཞིག་རེད།
Chinese 世俗諦如飯
Conventional truth is like the road.
Ultimate truth is like the vehicle.
When you have both, you can arrive anywhere you wish to go.
We can also call this the integration of the two truths.
One Named Tsering, 2026/02/06
Tibetan ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ་ཟེར་བ་དེ་ལམ་ལྟ་བུ་ཞིག་རེད།
Chinese 世俗諦如道路
