So often, when disaster hits, we feel distanced. It is so difficult to be of assistance when funds are limited and we are not part of a large help group from one or the other branches of government or on the staff of a large charitable organization.
It is in those times that we are most needed for prayer and meditation. These moments that we spend sending good thoughts and feelings into the universe are greatly needed and greatly appreciated.
Those performing the physical tasks of search and rescue and medical assistance are in dire need of vast amounts of energy. Those hanging onto life under unbearable circumstances need our strength and assurance that there is someone, somewhere, looking over them.
Do not imagine that if you have few physical means at your disposal that you are not powerful on all levels of being. Some few are set aside for just this purpose when extra energy and hope and presence is called for.
Patrul Rinpoche offered these lines in preparation for deep compassion meditation:
Bodhichitta, precious and sublime:
May it arise in those in whom it has not arisen;
May it never decline where it has arisen;
But go on increasing, further and further!
(Cited in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche)
Now, duly prepared, simply sit and send good thoughts to Haiti. Whatever energy and compassion you send will be accepted and put to good use.
No matter what, Never forget that SPIRIT COUNTS!
Om Mani Padme Hum
