A Tibetan Buddhist Way to Handle Terrorism & Disasters

"One brick won't build a house. But brick by brick, a house will get built. So, one prayer, or the prayers of one person will not change the whole world. But if we meditate or say prayers, we will be able to contribute in healing and rebuilding lives. So we must get involved in contributing little by little by doing meditations and prayers. That is what we can and must do."

"Think about those terrible images, painful feelings and frightening stories of the morning of September 11th. Let them shake our bodies up and wake up our minds with a powerful feeling of sadness and pain.
Then let the power of sadness turn into strong thoughts and feelings of love and compassion, into a wish of wanting to save all from their sufferings from the bottom of your heart (without letting yourself feel hatred or anger towards the perpetrators).
Then let the power of that love emanate a strong energy of devotion, devotion to the Blessed One(s), -- the body of wisdom, love and power -- who is/are the embodiment of all the enlightened ones and the true nature and pure quality of the universe as it is.

Then turn the power of your devotion into the energy of prayers, the all-prevailing sound of calling for healing blessings, from the bottom of your heart.
Then think that the blessings of the Blessed One, love and peace are emanating from the Blessed One in the form of beams of rainbow light, light of peace and joy.
Then the blessing lights touch the bodies of all -- those who have died, those who are suffering and the whole universe.

By the mere touch of the blessing light, think and feel that all fear, confusion and suffering are pacified, like darkness by sunlight. All are transformed into bodies of blessing light. All are filled with the feelings of peace, joy and strength.
Finally, feel the all-pervading peace and let our mind and the minds of all (especially those who are suffering) melt as one. Rest in that feeling -- the awareness of oneness in peace -- over and over again. The nature of all is one, the awareness of the eternal peace."