Wudang Mountains

I'm good, and I also don't know what the Dao is, so I think we're, we're united in that, and it's a beautiful world to explore and to be confident in our not knowing.

And yeah, I've been studying in the Wudang Mountains in China and making this in the best way that I can accessible these Daoist ideas, often through film, and with the beautiful Todd together on a podcast.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

You know, I'm currently in Taiwan for this.

You know, I was just in China in the Wudang Mountains, like the birthplace of the Taoist-

Mm

... uh, lineages, because they've been cultivating life force energy, which is, you know, the, the definition is, is, is often debated.

Today, that's northern Hubei.

There in Longzhong, where the Daoist-rich Wudang Mountains rise up from the plain, Zhuge Liang lived the idyllic life of a recluse scholar-farmer.

It's said he spent his days studying Confucianism, the classics, including the military classics, as well as astronomy and geography.

Recluse he may have been, but Zhuge Liang gained a reputation as the Wolong, or sleeping or crouching dragon, a hidden genius waiting to be discovered.

No [laughs]

... where it's like his, his Black dad is teaching him kung fu in the Wudang Mountains, and there's all these butterflies around him while he's doing his kick punching class.

Always the monarch thing.

And that butterfly thing, 'cause on my last Derby the Curb I had Gray on.

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