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Can it be said that the absence of suffering is equal to happiness?
Immediate counterexample: clinical depression often manifests as flattened affect, not feeling much of anything.
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Can it be said that the absence of suffering is equal to happiness?
Everyone who has been happy at least once in their life knows that happiness is much more than absence of suffering.
Hence the OP's question is better to be answered from experience than from ...
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