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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