Episode 27 – Tai Chi Teacher, Writer and Taoist Monk Arthur Rosenfeld: Macho Buddha!
The Drunken Taoist Podcast #27
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- Writing sixteen books and having a TV show is barely more than an accident in the life of a seeker
- Questioning everything is the name of the game
- Trading time for money
- Why martial arts? From David Carradine to the Holocaust, passing through stolen lunch money
- The joys of martial arts politics. If you put one martial artist alone in a room, before too long he’ll be arguing with himself.
- “I look at you and I see Moy Yat” and spits: a typical Chinese martial arts story
- Stumbling onto the Da Vinci of martial arts
- Chinese culture puzzles Daniele
- Good God, why don’t you listen to Bolelli?”–the sentence that everyone on earth should be speaking
- Becoming an ordained Taoist monk
- Writing a love story about Lao Tzu
- Star Wars and Taoism
- The art of embracing simplicity while having salmon flown in from Scotland for lunch
- Government permission to reincarnate… only in China!
- Favorite translations of the tao te ching
- Arthur on the web: http://arthurrosenfeld.com and https://twitter.com/Machobuddha
Tai Chi Teacher, Writer and Taoist Monk Arthur Rosenfeld: Macho Buddha! Oct. 30, 2013 / 1:38:23
Great show – As a tai chi practioner i recognised a lot of the bullshit you get with these super serious martial artist dudes. Everyone seems so certain “their guy” is the real deal, and anyone doing anything different is wrong. Who knows really, it’s all subjective and if it works for you keep doing it… Didnt agree with all the guest said, but was a very interesting listen, as ever.
Leave with an old one:
“How many Tai Chi teachers does it take to change a lightbulb ? 5. One to change the lightbulb, and the other four to shake their heads and say “he’s not changing a lightbulb, he’s just waving his hands around”