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This talk was given at Empathic Practice in Pensacola, FL., on 3/13/23. All of my work as a podcaster and Buddhist Meditation Instructor is offered freely. If you find any value in this content and would like to support me and my work, please consider donating. You can donate via Venmo to @gulfcoastdharma . I hope you enjoy it!

Like a game of football (AC Milan v Juventis), Part 1 of our guide to Ostuni is a game of two halves. With another new friend @davidgram92 we find out a little bit about Ostuni, its history and some of our favourite places to eat and hang out...

Then in the second half, we find out a little bit more about our charming guest for this podcast, Mr Citta di Ostuni, the lovely David (@davidgram92 on Instagram).

This summer when Ostuni's numbers swell from 32.000 to 100.000 will he will be looking for love, or something more practical, does he prefer prosecco to peroni...and will a sugar daddy or a toy boy amuse him more...?

Before taking a road trip for Part 2 of our guide, David demonstrates the meaning of "gifted".

This Podcast Covers:

• Sutra 1.2: Yoga Citta Vrtti Nirodah
• The meaning of each individual sanskrit word in Sutra 1.2
• The meaning of them all together
• The definition of Yoga
• The difference between Purusa and Prakriti
• What the Citta is
• What is Suffering
• What is Acceptance
• Reading from Nisargadatta on Pain
• Reading from Adyashanti on Depth
• Learning to work with pain instead of running from it
• Learning to identify with freedom instead of the story of our pain
• Equanimity: staying present with changes
• Will, Willpower & Willingness
• What it means to apply this to our lives
• Quotes from Nelson Mandela, Freiderich Neitzche, Martha Graham, Nini Melvin, and poetry from Antonio Machado.