Giving peace and appeasing people’s anger is one purpose of religion. Anger cannot calm anger by itself. Retaliation cannot stop retaliation by itself. Anger can be calmed by a peaceful mind, and retaliation can be calmed only by compassion. Unfortunately, though we know this well, our actions are often less ideal than we intend them to be. This is one of the silliest characteristics of human beings. Animals know better than we do. We must change our ways now, otherwise the tragedies of human life will continue forever.

Buddhism is a teaching that can provide peace, ease, and compassion. There are many teachings that can help to prepare us to accept these virtues.