Here is a message from Thich Nhat Hanh concerning the current situation.
Please feel free to spread the peace message in all other ways you may know. 
Thank you for your efforts in this!

CULTIVATING COMPASSION TO RESPOND TO VIOLENCE: THE WAY OF PEACE

All violence is injustice.  Responding to violence with violence is injustice, 
not only to the other person but also to oneself.  Responding to violence with 
violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred.  It is 
only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence.  This is true 
in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

Many people in America consider Jesus Christ as their Lord, their spiritual 
ancestor and their teacher.  We should heed His teachings especially during
critical times like this.  Jesus never encourages us to respond to acts of violence
with violence.  His teaching is, instead, to use compassion to deal with violence.  
The teachings of Judaism go very much in the same direction.

Spiritual leaders of this country are invited to raise their voices, to bring about 
the awareness of this teaching to the American nation and people.  What needs to be 
done right now is to recognize the suffering, to embrace it and to understand it.  
We need calmness and lucidity so that we can listen deeply to and understand our own 
suffering, the suffering of the nation and the suffering of others.  By understanding 
the nature and the causes of the suffering, we will then know the right path to follow.

The violence and hatred we presently face has been created by misunderstanding, 
injustice, discrimination and despair.  We are all co-responsible for the making of 
violence and despair in the world by our way of living, of consuming and of handling 
the problems of the world.  Understanding why this violence has been created, we 
will then know what to do and what not to do in order to decrease the level of violence 
in ourselves and in the world, to create and foster understanding, reconciliation and 
forgiveness.  I have the conviction that America possesses enough wisdom and courage 
to perform an act of forgiveness and compassion, and I know that such an act can bring 
great relief to America and to the world right away.

Thich Nhat Hanh

18 September, 2001

The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh will be fasting from the 21st-30th September as a way of 
prayer in action.  He invites all of his friends and Disciples to join him in this 
prayer and meditation, wherever you may be and for however long you wish, in order to 
embrace all those who have died and All who are suffering from the recent tragedy.  
Those who plan to Participate in this act of peace may like to e-mail us at 
mfmaster@vermontel.net, and to write a letter to the President and to their 
Congresspeople to inform them of your intentions.  

On 27 September, the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh will visit New York City and give a 
public talk there.  He will be addressing the relevant issues of peace in action and 
the cultivation of compassion.  All are welcome to attend.  For updated information, 
please visit our website, www.plumvillage.org, call our monastery in Vermont, Green 
Mountain Dharma Center, at (802) 436-1103.