when a painful thorn lodges in the foot, the fingers pull it out without hesitation or fanfare. The fingers don’t feel good about themselves for doing this, nor is the foot grateful. It is just a perfectly normal thing for the fingers to do. Why? Because the fingers don’t think of themselves as independent of the foot. Fingers and foot are one body. They don’t have to think about this; it’s simply the case. So naturally, easily, smoothly, without trouble or fanfare, there is caring and beneficial action. One-body reality.
