Yes. Suffering exists for a reason. When you place you hand on a hot stove it hurts. And the reason it hurts is because the heat from the stove is detrimental to the well being of your hand. All forms of suffering are telling you that you are doing something contrary to the nature of your well being. Also, negativity exists to highlight or exalt the positive. You can't know relief if there is nothing to be relieved from. One must be cold to comprehend warmth, be starving to appreciate food, and be a child to see the value of the parent. Duality and contrast allowed our consciousness to know something that was previously unknowable. It added a new dimension of possibility.
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