we got this at the social action conference, and i thought i’d share it here:

Serving all beings
- from the Prajnaparamita Sutra

Subhuti asked: “How does a person practice all the paramitas?”

The Buddha replied:” With the perfection of wisdom, that person does not consider anything ultimately real but serves all beings with loving attention so that energy, patience and meditation will be aroused in them. But even though that person attends to the minutest detail of whatever must be done, he or she never grasps it or tries to make ultimate sense of it, knowing that it has no enduring substance of its own. ”