(artwork by Joseph Qui) Journey to the West researcher Jim R. McClanahan returns to the Woodpile, this time to talk all about Zhu Bajie aka...
The nature of silence, not being fond of children, recognizing one’s own deficiencies, the laying-low wisemen and much more are what we get up to...
Philosophical hashing outs Back by the Woodpile this episode, talking hating in others what we despise about ourselves, jump starting self awareness, clean moon observations,...
Taoist Scholar Livia Kohn returns Back by the Woodpile to talk about her new book Taoist China, which is a look at the current state of the practice...
How to dismatle a country, how to co-opt a religion and how to rewrite history. It’s all here as Joshua Philipp of the Epoch Times talks a...
Final chapter of Spun Counterguy’s Taoist adventures in China and America! This time around: sleeping on belts and dreaming of snakes, your value based on...
More tales of an American in the Taoist wonderland of China! This time around, encounters with corrupt Buddhists, faux Catholics, underground Christians, a Jewish well,...
More adventures of an American in China trying to find the meaning of the Tao! This time around, Zhuangzi’s butterflies and romance on the Meng...
Taoist adventures in China! The is the second part of an American’s quest in the Middle Kingdom to learn more about the Tao Te Ching,...
Adventures in China all in pursuit of the Tao! Spun Counterguy tells stories and proverbs both ancient and modern all in his quest to know...
Peter Horse is back ready to talk about all kinds of things that could get us carted off to prison, including Liu Xiaobo, Taylor Swift...
Philosophy throwdown! Somehow between sneaky neighbors, withered trees, unaware beauty, unaware virtue, Chinese sages and missing axes, we find a little insight. To hear on...
We’re back over in China’s interior for another lesson in the ways of the Taoism. This time around we’re talking with a “Mr. Wu” who...
Master Hu is Taoist scholar who discusses with us the relationship between the philosophical and religious spectrum of Taoism, the attempt to incorporate Confucianism, making...
Wenzhou church before and after government demolition We’re over in China again and revisiting with our previous guest and friend “Peter”. The young man...
When it comes to Taoism, there’s few bright lights like Dr. Livia Kohn. A lecturer, author, publisher and a major translator of many obscure ancient...
Sister Sung-Hae Kim is a South Korean Catholic and an expert on interreligious dialogues, having recently published a book specifically about the relationship between Taoism...
(Taoism’s attributed founder, LaoZi) If you do a search of the word ‘Tao‘, a ton of books and philosophies will pop up claiming to know...
Welcome to the premiere installment of the podcast series “In the corner back by the woodpile”, exclusively here at the Brophisticate. Join myself, Spun Counterguy,...