• A million thanks to Aubrey Marcus and Onnit for supporting the podcast. Please familiarize yourself with the awesome stuff available by Onnit–from supplements to workout gear to great foods. Use our own pod cast link for a discount by going to www.onnit.com/taoist. Show Aubrey some love and let him know he didn’t make a mistake by sponsoring us.
• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount.
• Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM.
• If you want to buy a Drunken Taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates:
• The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist.
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md.
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site: www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich.
• Thank you to Cold Steel for sending us some of their amazing knives. To check out their very extensive catalog, visit www.coldsteel.com
• Happy Birthday Rich!
  

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

• 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

• A million thanks to Aubrey Marcus and Onnit for supporting the podcast. Please familiarize yourself with the awesome stuff available by Onnit–from supplements to workout gear to great foods. Use our own pod cast link for a discount by going to www.onnit.com/taoist. Show Aubrey some love and let him know he didn’t make a mistake by sponsoring us.
• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount.
• Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM.
• If you want to buy a Drunken Taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates:
• The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist.
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md.
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site: www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich.
• Thank you to Cold Steel for sending us some of their amazing knives. To check out their very extensive catalog, visit www.coldsteel.com

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

The “Rant of the Day”:

• Reading people and empathy
• Lama spit, the shining moon and a Tibetan monk’s enlightenment

The “I Have A Dream” Corner:

• This month… I have no dream

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

• Reacting to the people around us
• Disorganized spirituality vs. organized religion: how institutions are the enemy of creativity and dogma’s best friend
• Spirits. Beliefs are blind men musing about the nature of light
• The dilemma of sweet people and MMA. How to develop an edge without losing tenderness. Balancing yin and yang

The “Iz Moment”:

• Knockout farts and ants
• Please put on your pretty dress and stop hitting me on the head with an elephant
• Writing an autobiography entitled “Black and Proud”
• You are the craziest freak I ever met in my life

The “Storytelling Moment”:

• Siddhartha Gautama, harems, the Four Sights, on the quest for enlightenment, the dilemma of attachment
• Weddings, holidays, first time having sex
• It’s all up to you

• We have a new sponsor! A million thanks to Aubrey Marcus and Onnit for supporting the podcast. Please familiarize yourself with the awesome stuff available by Onnit–from supplements to workout gear to great foods. Use our own pod cast link for a discount by going to www.onnit.com/taoist. Show Aubrey some love and let him know he didn’t make a mistake by sponsoring us.
• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount.
• Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM.
• If you want to buy a Drunken Taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates:
• The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist.
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md.
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site: www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich.
• Thank you to Cold Steel for sending us some of their amazing knives. To check out their very extensive catalog, visit www.coldsteel.com

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

The “Iz Moment”:

• Isabella seeing Rick Santorum on TV: “Dada, that man freaks me out”
• I missed a meeting with Kate Upton because of Isabella. That fuckin’ kid owes me big time
• Boobs are proof that we live in a good universe. Nutella covered boobs are even better
• “I’ll get my revenge”
• Tomatoes and squirrels (except that Daniele can’t pronounce the word “squirrel”)
• Why Iz wants a dog costume

The “Rant of the Day”:

• Rich saved a child from an exploding grenade… maybe…
• Why conspiracy theories bug the hell out of me
• The fear that perhaps no one is in charge
• Big Brother is an inefficient dumbass
• “The Walking Dead” offers a therapeutic shortcut to Zen enlightenment
• Selling positive pregnancy tests on Craiglist

The “I Have A Dream” Corner:

• The Sforza Family coat of arms is badass, but it should be replaced with The Drunken Taoist logo
• Daniele becomes Duke of Milan, and performs a public service by climbing naked to the highest tower of the Castle, screaming at the sun and blessing the new day

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

• Jokes and good taste: exorcising horror through comedy vs. just being a dick
• MMA
• The ethics of sexually frustrated marijuana plants
• Dogma is dangerous no matter the source

The “Storytelling Moment”:

• The man who wouldn’t die

• A million thanks to Aubrey Marcus and Onnit for supporting the podcast. Please familiarize yourself with the awesome stuff available by Onnit–from supplements to workout gear to great foods. Use our own podcast link for a discount by going to www.onnit.com/taoist. Show Aubrey some love and let him know he didn’t make a mistake by sponsoring us.
• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount. Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM.
• If you want to buy a Drunken Taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates:
• The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist.
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md.
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site: www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich.

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

• We have a new sponsor! A million thanks to Aubrey Marcus and Onnit for supporting the podcast. Please familiarize yourself with the awesome stuff available by Onnit–from supplements to workout gear to great foods. Use our own podcast link for a discount by going to www.onnit.com/taoist. Show Aubrey some love and let him know he didn’t make a mistake by sponsoring us.
• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount.
• Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM
• If you want to buy a drunken taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates: The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com.
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straig ht to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works.
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich: therichimon@gmail.com
• Roberto Banchini and family: the sword in the stone and the arms-eating wolf.
• The joys of sleep, lightning storms and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Iz at the book presentation (see this episode pic)
• A big thank you to Cecelia Big Crow!
• Emails from Malawi?!? Really?!?

• Public speaking in Italy, English is great for ruling an empire, Italian is for seducing women. To get stuff done, use English. To have fun, use Italian.
• We think the Pope smokes weed
• Daniele listens to himself speaking English in “I Am Bruce Lee” dubbed into Italian by some other guy
• Gladiators for World Peace: the solution to violence against civilians and overpopulation in one package
• Daniele had breakfast in Milan yards away from where 2,000 years ago lions used to have Christians for breakfast
• I have a message for the Church on behalf of the spirit of Mr. Giordano Bruno (this will be used in one of the future episode pics). Plus the best Sangria in Rome
• Daniele breaks five commandments within five hundred yards of the Vatican
• The evils of Scientism and blind-faith Atheism. Socrates and the Oracle of Delphi: the wisdom of knowing you don’t know
• Daniele’s problems with New Atheists: lack of creativity, the limits of critical intelligence, why Thomas Paine kicks all of their asses, and why Create Your Own Religion is a difficult book to market

The “I Have A Dream” Corner:

• The return of the gnome!

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

• The miracle of Holy Water is that you don’t fall dead when you touch it
• Goddesses of Mercy: a piece of advice that is illegal in 49 1/2 states
• Discipline: very unsexy but very useful word. The Samurai approach
• “A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step”

The “Storytelling Moment”:

• Thanks to Tony Loquasto for inspiration. The 47 Ronin story: one of the greatest revenge tales ever

The “Iz Moment”:

• Iz’s new favorite song “I Fought the Law” by the Clash
• We need to write Katy Perry and let her know she may get in trouble at school if she says the word “bitch”
• “Your love gets me so high”
• “I’m so happy to play with you” “And I’m so happy you didn’t die yet”

• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount. Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM.
• If you want to buy a Drunken Taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates:
  • The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
  • Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
  • And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist.
  • And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md.
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site: www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• We are planning to have Dan Carlin on the show soon. If you have questions for Dan, please post them on the forum (see below).
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich.
• Two weeks of vacation a year? That’s crap.

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

• Duncan thought this was the best year of his life–minus the death of his mother and having a ball chopped off
• Tragedy and Empathy
• The deadly sin of taking things for granted
• Tragedy tends to make people become nicer… or meaner
• Working out with Joe Rogan
• Duncan had me spitting a perfectly good beer
• Art as inspiration
• Not sure if Duncan really likes Justin Bieber or not
• Buddha and Bieber
• Duncan’s thoughts about death
• The parable of the arrow
• The net of Indra
• “I’m really not interested in right and wrong. I’m interested in what makes life better right now and what doesn’t.”
• Having more in common with people you share little with than with those with your same interests
• Duncan’s life plans

• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount. Today we discuss the Mary Poppins’ quality of the bags.
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• If you want to buy a drunken taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates: The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com. Why the dark ages were known as the ‘dark ages’!
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com.
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• We are planning to have Dan Carlin on the show soon. If you have questions for Dan, please post them on the forum (see below)
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich: therichimon@gmail.com
• The glory of the Chinese man who stood in front of tanks in 1989

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

The “Rant of the Day”:

• Don’t carry my book through customs. “Why do you hate Jesus?”
• The Drunken Taoist t-shirt and its enemies. Apparently, not everyone is down with interracial making out, kicks in the balls, and wine consumption.
• A Drunken Taoist t-shirt thread on the forum?
• Game of Thrones is like watching The Godfather without the last 20 minutes. A sense of cynicism and meaninglessness. If I want reality, I look out the window. I want to be inspired. Movies, art, music, books as fuel to feed the fire.
• “Who the fuck cares if it’s a good movie or not? Does it make you jump out of your chair and inspire you to do something amazing with your life? Then it interests me. Otherwise…”
• The Tao of driving on the freeway. Learning how to flow vs. how “it should be”

The “I Have A Dream” Corner:

• The tale of the orgasm-counting gnome!
• Math and sex

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

• A sneak peak at the next episode with Duncan Trussell
• The origin of the Mafia, the difference between illegal and immoral, the difference between Don Corleone and his son in the Godfather. If you ever cross Daniele, “My lawyer is the last person you have to worry about”: taking care of business Italian-style.
• Cussing around your kids. “I don’t stay at school”. Damn Kathy Perry messed things up.
• Discipline without bullshit.
• Psychedelics and religions: Kykeon and Eleusis, Soma in Hinduism. A brief detour into shoplifting and racial profiling

The “Storytelling Moment”:

• In homage of Dan Carlin: “Prophets of Doom”

The “Iz Moment”:

• Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
• “Bastard kids no take Iz food”

• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount. Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM
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• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates: The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com. Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at www.suredesigntshirts.com. And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com.
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• Chris Odell from Datsusara is a miracle worker who manages to get heterosexual guys excited about bags
• Check out an episode of “The Misfortune Cookie Podcast” with me and Clarence Baillo http://mfcdigital.com/
• We are planning to have Dan Carlin on the show soon. If you have questions for Dan, please post them on the forum (see below)
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

• Listening to Aubrey freaks me out. It’s like listening to myself minus the Italian accent
• Aubrey explains the “warrior poet” concept like a true warrior poet
• Socrates was a badass
• Choosing to be a complete human being rather than a stereotype
• The weirdness of the American male hug
• If you are going to have boys, teach them how to dance and how to do yoga (they’ll thank you when women will dig them)
• “You are not actually tough if you are not sweet… the toughest person should be able to be the sweetest” Aubrey Marcus
• Why Aubrey’s favorite tattoo artist doesn’t tattoo snarling dragons
• Aubrey’s mom played the semi-finals in Wimbledon
• Aubrey’s psychedelic adventures
• “Why wouldn’t you create your own? It’s your life. No one else can live it for you”
• Aubrey’s shamanic trip in Peru’
• “Drink some whiskey, grab your nuts, grab a girl on the dance floor, dunk a basketball, lift some weights, fight somebody… I don’t give a fuck what you do, but do something, man!”
• Earning people’s respect in a language they understand… Aubrey explains the Joe Rogan magic
• Onnit

• Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp products www.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount.
• Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQcEm6cioM
• If you want to buy a drunken taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.
• If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates: The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com.
• Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesigntshirts.com.
• And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist
• And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md
• Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhouse.bandcamp.com.
• MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.
• A lecture series about Taoism is in the works
• We are planning to have Dan Carlin on the show soon. If you have questions for Dan, please post them on the forum (see below)
• If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich: therichimon@gmail.com
• You are from Italy? I was just in Paris!
• Forum: we launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations and be nice to each other! thedrunkentaoist.com/forum

The “Rant of the Day”:

• A historical narration about the development of Christian sexual ideology
• St. Paul: I hijacked Christianity and got away with it?
• Sluts as goddesses of mercy

The “I Have A Dream” Corner:

• St. Augustine and the power of guilt
• When your own penis turns into a mountain lion trying to kill you

The “Storytelling Moment”:

• The flaming thunderbolt of wisdom
• Tao-chi

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

• Taoism in a competitive context
• What if polytheism had won?
• Wicca, pagan and non denominational

The “Iz Moment”:

• My weird psychic baby

Intro:

Please visit our sponsor’s website for computer bags, backpacks, gi, and other hemp productswww.dsgear.com. Use the code “daniele” at checkout for a discount. Check out the awesome Datsusara animation of a Drunken Taoist episode by Paul Klawiter.

If you want to buy a drunken taoist t-shirt, email me at bodhi1974@yahoo.com and I’ll check to see if we have your size and color before you pay anything.

If you are in dire need of chocolate, audiobooks or awesome t-shirts, check our affiliates: The code “daniele” gets you a discount on the food of the gods (chocolate!) www.coracaoconfections.com. Use the code “warrior” for a discount on the great t-shirts at suredesignshirts.com. And if you need audiobooks, check www.audibletrial.com/thedrunkentaoist.

And if you shop on Amazon, please use our link on the donate page of this site. OR this one: http://amzn.to/10N96md.

Daisy House released their album. Check them out here: daisyhousebandcamp.com.

MY NEW BOOK IS IN STORES!!!!!! It’s entitled “Create Your Own Religion” and features endorsements by Joe Rogan, Mike Vallely, Ben Harper, Shannon Lee and Tom Robbins. If you click on the cover at this site www.danielebolelli.com, it’ll take you straight to the Amazon page.

A lecture series about Taoism is in the works

Here’s Guy Evans’ podcast with me http://www.smellslikehumanspirit.com/2013/05/thedrunkentaoistdanielebolelli.html

We are planning to have Dan Carlin on the show soon. If you have questions for Dan, please post them on the forum (see below)

If you are interested in kiva.org, please contact Rich

Forum: We launched the Drunken Taoist forum. Check it here, start conversations, and be nice to each other!

– Check out Sam’s three books (“A Fighter’s Heart”, “The Fighter’s Mind” and “The Disaster Diaries”
– Sam Sheridan’s bio reads like something out of a Jack London’s novel
– Sam drinks 15 cups of coffee a day and he can’t sleep much at night… the mystery deepens. Perhaps he could use a sample of the Drunken Taoist strain?
– Growing up in Old Deerfield messed with Sam’s mind
– Eastern American Indians and their captives: either killed in gruesome fashion or lovingly adopted into the tribe
– “Noble” vs. “Vicious Savages”
– Everyone alive has to deal with conflict
– Everyone can be broken. No one is immune to fear
– Empathy and approaching movies/art/books as a sacred ritual
– John C. in Cincinnati: Sam is going to find you!
– How to deal with fear
– Daniele’s worst and best moments in MMA
– Sam’s tattoo: you are risking your soul by playing it safe
– I don’t like writing. I like having written. And being possessed by the Muse
– Sam “I’m a big fan of misery” and his new year resolution (“Drink more!”), “all things in moderation, even moderation”
– Why people are fascinated with the Apocalypse
– Daniele drinks his blood, eats his flesh and keeps training: the joys of jiujitsu.
– Empathy&Intuition
– Sam’s take on the current environmental challenges