The Purpose of Life
There is no real purpose to life. If things are made to be, they shall be; que será, será. To begin with, life and death are human constructs, namely, they are merely different notions of mental consciousness. Birth and death are two parts of the same thing, as are both sides of the same coin. The coin here is also known by the name of samsãra, i.e. the continuous flux of life and death. In the dependent nature, everything is a matrix of everything. All things or matters are interdependently co-arising ad infinitum. The fundamental cause of this enduring personality is the consciousness that remains in ignorance; when ignorance is uprooted, rebirth ceases.
For general understanding, our Mother Nature's grand design is all about the absence, balance, and constancy. By conscientiously observing, we would realise that all things and all events would eventually achieve a harmonious equilibrium. The visual representation of this concept is well depicted in the Taijitu symbol, or otherwise loosely referred to as the yin-yang symbol. Tai-ji signifies ultimate supreme that represents a perceptive reality of dependent nature, underlines many natural dualities like femininity and masculinity, darkness and light, low and high, cold and hot, water and fire, life and death, expanding and contracting, etc.
If we evoke a scene, immediate reactions would occur through time and the planes of existence, just as the rock hit the water and caused a ring of waves to spread and reverberate around. Buddhism refers to this law as kamma, which is not influenced by religious beliefs, but rather a mechanism that maintains a lasting balance in Mother Nature. Only the doer is accountable, that's it. In the end, there is a conditioned relationship between one life and the other; they are not identical, but they are not completely distinct either.
While life may not have a clear purpose, there is still one objective for the journey, i.e. improving our inner mental consciousness. This is because human thoughts are cosmic waves of energy that permeate all time and space, and it is the most powerful vibration that can attract what is desired or wished for. Our next phase of existence can be traced back to the tendencies of today's mental consciousness. Therefore, we must nurture our innate mental consciousness while living in the human domain.
Ultimately, we are only manipulated by our mental consciousness to enrich life with labels, colours, names, perceptions, conceptions, stereotypes, purposes, etc. In Buddhism, the mind is believed to be the starting point for all states. Energy is constantly being born again in samsãra, which keeps the flow of our mind alive beyond the grave. And consistent nurturing is necessary to cultivate our innate mental consciousness, which is considered to be the architect of realms of existence.