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Jake Pinnick’s Transformation: My Journey as a Daoist Priest in Wudang [Video]

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It was a deep and long-standing fascination with Eastern culture that led Jake Pinnick on a fantastic journey – all the way from his native to U.S. to Wudang Mountain in China! Once there he submerged himself completely in the study of Wudang martial arts, all the time drawing spiritual nourishment from Daoist wisdom. Over the course of years, his transformation was complete: the novice martial arts enthusiast had become the inheritor of an entire tradition! But that the mantle is around Jake’s shoulders, it’s time for him to considers how to pass the Wudang tradition on and share traditional Chinese Daoist philosophy with people from all around the world.

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