And so the circle was completed again: salvation, promotion, the sack.
Maybe, then, in sharing his passion, my father was "completing his salvation".
Having spent endless ages studying all the qualities of countless Buddha lands, he created THIS land as the vehicle for our complete transcendence - our salvation at last from endless rounds of birth into samsaric life.
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After David the king and Christ the son of David, the third David was a messianic figure who would complete the work of salvation.
When your salvation is complete in both worldly and spiritual matters, you will leave the present world and pass on to that which has no end.
Perhaps in this way, at least, their salvation is complete when they pass away from our lives--whether it was "their time" or much too soon.
What happens if we think of the person's "salvation as complete," of her life as one whole contribution to the good of the world, no matter how long she lived?
(v. 48) After every example of a person having faith and believing in Christ, he or she is always baptized to complete his or her salvation!
Traditionally, this goal has been presented in negative terms as the extinction of desire, attachment, ignorance, or suffering creating the impression that Buddhist salvation means the complete obliteration of individual consciousness.
