The meaning of life from a Buddhist view point is that life as a human being is a rare opportunity to relize an enlightned way to end suffering,it is a commonly held opinion that beings that are born as animals or ghosts either suffer too much or do not have the ability to realize a enlightened view point. On the other side, heavenly beings enjoy too much happiness and have very little motivation to end suffering. Life as a human being offers a middle position between suffering and happiness and the opportunity to realize that beings fear suffering and desire happiness and that serves as a means for the motivation to realize a permanent solution towards ending suffering.