"...“You had your karmic slate cleaned completely, so there are no blemishes, no obstructions and no reason to mess up down the road,”..."

Interesting.  Wasn't aware there were "cleansing" opportunities afforded by outsiders to an individual.  My experience with Buddhists in the far east was once you messed up, you had to dig yourself out of the hole, and that typically didn't occur in the lifetime you messed up, but required reincarnations and lives of good living and payback to get back to where you were.

I do love the "no reason to mess up down the road"....almost sounds like "Monk Homeskillet".  :-D