“The MOQ sees the wheel of karma as attached to a cart that is going somewhere … The suffering which the Buddhists regard as only that which is to be escaped, is … merely the negative side of the progression toward Quality (or, just as accurately, the expansion of quality). Without the suffering to propel it, the cart would not move forward at all.”
In Lila, Robert Pirsig advances the idea that the coincidence of opposites of positive and negative value—joy and suffering, desire and aversion, pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion—are the locomotive force driving the universe into a spiral of increasing complexity.