If you don't have the ability to celebrate what you have now, nothing you get.

And I mean nothing, nothing material, nothing experiential either.

No amount of information, no amount of experience, no amount of material possessions is going to teach you how to celebrate.

That's Buddhist Monk and T Master Wuda, this week on the Retro Podcast.

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Okay, I got my friend Wuda back on the show this week. Pretty excited about it for some quick background and context on this super interesting cat.

Wuda was born Aaron Fisher in the United States. He was born and raised in the US. And after studying philosophy in college, he traveled the world and ultimately settled in Taiwan where he has lived ever since as a Buddhist monk and as a tea master, steeped in the sutras and the wisdom of those traditions.

And in case you missed it, he joined the show back in episode 87. Check that out if you haven't already. It's archived on my website or you can download my free iOS app, which has all the episodes because iTunes only has the most recent 50.

And you can also check it out on SoundCloud. It's up there as well. And during that conversation, Wuda and I explored the world of tea pretty extensively, which is a world that I really knew nothing about.

In Taiwan, he founded and run something called Global Tea Hut, which is a school and a center that harvests tea. It educates all comers on the traditions surrounding tea. And it welcomes people from all over the world to come, visit him, study and practice tea preparation, meditation, tea history, tea crafting, the sutras of tea, and its relevance in society. And how to embrace the Tao of tea as a method of spiritual cultivation.

However, I felt like during that conversation, we really only scratched the surface when it comes to the true extent of the mad crazy knowledge that Wuda has to offer. So I wanted to have him back on the show to get more into the world, the wisdom, the philosophy, and the traditions of Zen Buddhism, which is really his primary focus. This is his thing. This is what he lives.

So when he returned to LA for a visit recently, I jumped on the chance to have him back on the show. Pretty excited about this episode quite honestly. I think it just might be one of the most illuminating and fascinating conversations that you will hear all week.

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