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The Past Has Already Been Lived

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The past is important, but not as important as the present and the future.

The past has already been lived.

It doesn’t have to be relived.

To sacrifice the present and the future by reliving past injuries is not the way of the sages.

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Opening the Injured Heart

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