But down the road from here, probably a one-minute walk, on the corner of the road, there’s a new Pizzeria. Yes, there is! Come and try it on Saturday June 20th.
There’s a new Napolitana Pizzeria and those Pizzas taste really good!. Really beautifully done, with Al Fresco seating. You can sit outside and watch the world go by.
Now, if anyone knows the area, they’ll know that prior to that Pizzeria being there, it wasn’t a Pizzeria it a was a gym!
Now you walk past and you say, Pizzeria. I mean, it’s a definite Pizzeria here. They’ve got Pizza ovens, Pizza chefs, and there’s Pizzas flying here left, right, and centre. Just Eat & Deliveroo drivers pulling in. It’s busy. That’s a Pizzeria.
But the question is, is it really? Or has it just been made up?
Previously to being a Pizzeria, it was a gym.
It’s a great spot, on the corner, lots of glass. It’s actually a perfect spot for a Pizzeria. It was a gym before, so you’d look in the window and see people working out, and think, that’s a gym. But where’s the gym gone?
Previously they were burning calories, and now they’re loading them on. And before it was a gym, do you remember what it was? Someone said it was Garage. And before that, it was a Blockbusters. Yeah, so it’s been a gym, a garage, a Blockbusters, and now it’s a Pizzeria.
Which one is it?
You go down there and point to it and say its a…..
If we all go down there and think, what exactly is this? I mean, it’s whatever you want it to be. Basically, isn’t it? How did it become a Pizzeria? They just got the signage, did all the interiors, exteriors, and created a Pizzeria.
But we can see it’s just a collection of parts. We say “Pizzeria” but thats just a mental construct. The same with ourselves.
Everything is designed and created by our mind. But if you go in there and try to find the actual Pizzeria, you won’t ever be able to find it, because the Pizzeria is just a collection of parts. And that’s why it can go from a Pizzeria to something else.
If the gym was really there, it would stay there forever. But the fact the gym is just a collection of parts is proof, because it’s turned into a Pizzeria.
Yeah, things are created, things appear and disappear. Appear and disappear. And in meditation, we can, in a sense, disappear our strong sense of I and have a sense of spaciousness and lightness.
I mean, it’s much better to feel spacious and light than heavy and dark. Yeah. This is real Medicine for the Mind. This is the ultimate Medicine.
Extract from the new course Medicine from the Mind, Tuesday nights class in Sutton Coldfield!