The Desire to not learn from one's mistakes

One doesn't learn from one's mistakes. I'm afraid, it is normally the opposite. And, one beats oneself up for not learning from them - which doesn't facilitate change in the least.
So, it leads one to the conclusion that this recalcitrance is very deeply rooted with hidden roots discovered and discoverable only through deep digging. Going below the surface to the root involves great effort and facing a psychical pain one wishes not to face.
Were it otherwise, change would likely be much easier and the steps which would help one to obviously change would be not only obvious, but easier to adopt than they almost ever are. No. Much of that which keeps us from changing is not obvious - although it appears to be obvious. Hidden desires compel us to repeat the same mistakes.  And, we often dig deeper, instead of out of the hole.
So, there must be a very compelling reason to dig ourselves out, since digging out instead of down entails suffering and looking inward. Being tired of the same pain and, more importantly, desiring higher and more fulfilling desires, and wanting to be free are compelling reasons indeed.
If one is rare enough to be able to sense this, the easy part is over. The next step one almost always chooses - in the unlikely event one ever even realizes there are roots at all - is usually to figure out a way to delude oneself once again. One does so, so that one will be able to repeat the same mistakes. For, to do so really is normal, not daunting, familiar, and safe. And, it is death. But, Who possesses courage, strength, stamina, a solemn and bright vision of the future, and a willingness to endure tremendous pain keeps digging even once he hits upon, and even especially because he has hit upon those first of many, many roots...well beyond which freedom lies.

"Everything is just as it should be." -Ohsho

I have read perused a few books by this man. He is not ordinary. I listened to him recently for the first time. He struck me as the closest thing to a living Buddha (well, he isn't alive anymore) that I've ever heard.
I wonder if it's true.

If there is karma, the distinction between private and public acts vanishes.