When the books of karma are almost closed, the Buddha says, you “come to that place where one grieves no more.” Then you see that the mistakes of your past and their karmic payback were part of a pattern of spiritual growth stretching over many lives. Once paid for, those mistakes are no longer yours. They are the life history of a person made up of thoughts, desires, and motives that are gone. The karma of those thoughts applied to the old person; it cannot stick to the new. Then the past carries no guilt and no regrets. You have learned what was to be learned. Recollecting past errors is
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