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FYI, the canonical final goal of Buddhism is the eradication ("pulling out by the root", and therefore no possibility of growth back) of greed, hate and ignorance within one's psychology.

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AFAIK, that is correct yet incomplete, the idea is to get rid of all mundane interests, both good and bad. So that'd include love, joy and even mercy (though most of buddhism has a contradiction here, since it suggests you do good for others)

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It is complete. You are adding things to it. There may be a small sect or some new-age group that may have added to it in this way, nevertheless, the canonical gaol is exactly as stated. In fact this is not quite the shortest way to express the goal of buddhism. Canonically, you can also say, that the final goal is the end of suffering, the actual saying rendered in English is a quote from the Buddha: "I only teach "dukkha" (suffering) and the end of "dukkha" (suffering)". That is the shortest possible way to summarize Buddhism in its entirity. I have use the original Pali term "dukkha" as the translation of it as suffering is a remnant of the early translation efforts by Annie Besant (of Theosophy fame) and her associates. The term dukkha has a much broader meaning than that of suffering as normally understood in English.