To keep you asleep.
Man is Buddha (Siddhartha Guatama)
Buddhism means “to wake up,” but its goal is to actually keep you asleep. Its spiritual goal is Nirvana, which means to “extinguish,” or to “blow out.”
It looks for the “middle way – not to be rich or poor – the balance between indulgence vs self-denial. Working out your own salvation. Nothing is permanent.
Lamas – Leaders of monastaries (Dalai Lama) promote 4 Notable Truths:
1) Life is full of suffering
2) Desire causes suffering
3) To stop suffering, you must stop desiring
4) The path to the end of suffering is noble – 8-fold path – the Middle Way – Perfect
https://www.gotquestions.org/buddhism.html