![]() ![]() It's a better book, better written and doesn't hypocritically tell you to ditch the very thing that made mass distribution of it possible. If you want to read a useful book about engaging life and other people, get James Carse's "Finite and Infinite Games". For Taoists everywhere, the New York Times bestseller from the author of The Te of Piglet. ![]() ![]() It calls for living without preconceived ideas about how life should be lived-but its not a preconception of how. Milne. A Heffalump is a type of elephant-like character in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A. Science doesn't have all the answers concerning life, the universe and everything, but it has some (and clearly far more than Hoff bothered to educate himself concerning), and the number and quality of them is every-increasing. And what is Taoism Its really very simple. Shepards original illustration, from Winnie-the-Pooh, shows the 'elephant' inspiration. The author's explanation of Taoism is through. In these pages Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned long ago by the Chinese founders of Taoism. His reasoning for this was ill-informed at best, willfully ignorant at worst and, I'm quite sure he makes use of the inventions of science just as much as the rest of us. The Tao of Pooh Yes, Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. One is as familiar to us as that beloved teddy. In 2006, he denounced the publishing industry and announced his resignation from book-writing. Library Journal Not all Great Masters of Wisdom are venerable graybeards. The authors explanation of Taoism through Pooh, and Pooh through Taoism, shows that this is not simply an ancient and remote philosophy but something you can. He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). While there is some wisdom in it - slow your life down, try to live more harmoniously, etc - this had way too much of the "don't try, just let things happen and it will all work out" message that was present in Coelho's "The Alchemist."(Maybe Hoff was channeling Coelho when he wrote this.) However what I found most deplorable was Hoff's flat out repudiation of science. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ![]()
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