The first step towards understanding anger is not suppression, but acceptance of it. Most anger, he remarked, finds it root in our interpersonal relationships. What we must learn is how to transform our anger, and this can only be done from within. The only way to deal with anger is to reach out and ask for help. Compassion is the fruit of understanding.
Understanding is the bloom of mindfulness.
The West has much to learn from this deeply profound philosophical-religious tradition. To affirm the 4 pedagogical teaching stance of another implies that we alone do not possess the fullness of truth. We can learn something from someone else. Truth is broader than any one expression or proposition. It is a call issued to us a summons from Mystery that constantly asks us to return and contemplate what we thought we already knew only to discover new and deeper insights.