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What are the Buddhists goals in life?

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I think that the main goals of buddhists is to become enlightened and go to 'heaven' which is achieved through medatation. There may be be other goals in Buddhist life such as to teach Buddhism to people, to become a monk etc. however I do not know if these are actual goals.

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