How to Stop Regretting Past Mistakes: Salt, Water and a Nail

What do you do with your past mistakes? In the final episode of the series, Buddhist teaching answers with a lump of salt, a river and a nail. In this episode: the four kinds of people (darkness to darkness, darkness to light, light to darkness, light to light), why good and bad consequences jostle, the Buddha's lump of salt in a small cup vs. the Ganges in the Lonaka Sutta, the accumulation of merit as water and the accumulation of demerit as salt, the nail-in-the-plank image (good deeds cannot wipe away bad deeds, but they can dilute or slow them), the mistakes to avoid, the Buddha's four steps to dissolve demerit, the Noble Eightfold Path and the Threefold Training as the three stages of washing away sin, the whole of Scripture summed up as not being reckless, the conclusion, and five closing practices for Kamma already done and Kamma to come. 0:00 Where you start does not decide where you end 0:47 The four kinds of people 2:26 Salt in a cup, salt in the Ganges: the Lonaka Sutta 4:46 The nail in the plank: can good deeds erase bad ones? 5:50 The mistakes that keep the salt strong 7:10 The way to dissolve demerit: four steps 8:22 The Noble Eightfold Path and the Threefold Training 10:47 Precepts, meditation, wisdom: three stages of washing 14:05 All of Scripture in one thing: not being reckless 14:54 The conclusion 17:16 Five practices for past and future Kamma This is the final episode of the playlist: Law of Karma Explained: The Full Series Source: everything in this video comes from the book The Law of Kamma: The Law of Cause and Effect (Dhammakaya Foundation, 2015). Retold in our own words. Narration uses an AI voice. Animation and music are original, made with code.