A. The concept of happiness exists based on that of suffering just as the concept of right exists based on that of left. Were it not for left, there would be no right. In the same way, if there were only happiness, happiness would not be happiness.
That is why it is said that happiness contains suffering and vice versa. Buddhism says that we should be able to see both as identical so that we may escape from the ocean of suffering.
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