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The question "What is the meaning of life?" is usually taken to be equivalent to questions like:

  • Why are we here?
  • What is the purpose of our existence?
  • Do we have a calling to make thing s better?

To all of these Buddhism generally responds "It does not matter, live your life to reduce the suffering discussed in the Four Noble Truths"

Achieving enlightenment is a singular process, no deity will help you. Neither can you do anything more than suggest improvements to others. The practices put foreward in the Eightfold Path are suggestions not commandments.

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