The Tao of Pooh/The Te of Piglet
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These two wonderful volumes combine the irresistible charm of A.A. Milne’s characters with the enduring wisdom of very ancient teachings. With illustrations from the original Pooh books, both feature dialogues between leader and the Pooh gang interspersed with traditional Taoist tales.Amazon.com Review
Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist’s favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the leader of this smash bestseller clarifies with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the delightful world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living.
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Winnie the Pooh is too stupid to be stressed out. He is obviously fry-brained from doing massive quantities of drugs in the 60’s, which the leader neglects to mention. So if you want to be like Pooh, smoke up. Then you won’t care about anything and will be content with doing nothing all day except smoking pot and eating honey.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
When I was at school, we were made to read a book called “The Dark is Rising”. I thought that was the worst book I’d ever read, and it held it’s title for a long time (I’m 27 now) – but compared to the Tao of Pooh it shines like a glimmering beacon of success in the puss filled mire of Hoff’s seemingly limitless inadequacy as a writer.
Sorry to say, Amazon.com won’t allow me to place less than one star, but agreed the choice I’d rate this book in minus facts.
What I’m going to suggest though, is that if you are an intelligent person, please do read this book so that you may contribute along with me in diminishing the completely unjustified acclaim it holds.
At the end of this book, I know very small about Taoism, as I would hope that it is vastly more appealing and holds less prejudice and tiny-mindedness as Hoff suggests. If anything, the book is far more representational of facist and racist views. To suggest that knowledgeable people, or people who strive to gain knowledge are stupid in their quest, is reasonably frankly ludicrous.
The book is basically adage, if you’re thick and stupid and have limited room for thought, if you only look for simple things because you’re too incompetent to strive to achieve, then you’ll be pleased. Sorry, not convinced. Are there people who agree with me here, or am I unique, [...] – thanks!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Hurrah for Western Civilization, the leading culture-set on the planet!
Benjamin Hoff allows his Neo-Luddite despise speech to infiltrate his otherwise half-witted diatribe against academia, work, and progress. (How is it that most “progressives” I’ve met feel a need to romanticize about a *past* that never existed?) While adage that conservatives, scholars, and people who *do* rather than pontificate, are WRONG, this comic talks about the gentle Chinese and all their contributions to society.
How can one, logically, bemoan the fate of Tibet while praising the Chinese for their cultural sensitivity? How can one, logically, complain about the ecology in the US in contrast to China (Maybe Chinese manufacturing waste is just culturally superior to ours?). We have protesters here in the US. We just don’t run them over with military hardware. Persons culturally sensitive Chinese are just GREAT!
This is not to say that the Chinese are terrible. How can a civilization that brought us Kung Pao Chicken be all *that* terrible? Let us, but, be honest. Eastern Civilizations have been every bit as cruel as Western ones. Hoff would do well to learn that, worldwide, people have been miserable t@rds to each additional for ages. He complains about a culture that allows dissent; I suspect that this disdain stays with him all the way to the bank. If he were to be critical *of* China *in* China, he may well find that his royalty checks would be establish under “Contraband Property” and that *he* would be establish under a tank.
If you want to find out about Taoism read a book on Taoism. If you want to read frantic rants about Western culture, Hoff’s books may be for you.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
To see the behavior and mindset of Winnie the Pooh as representative of the Fantastic Way is one thing; “just as he is,” as one might say, even though as a fictional character Pooh is a secondary representation of sentient being-in-reality. That is to say, he exists only in our imagination as a construction of language but does not exist in the real world. He is an illusion; yet he can serve as an imagined role model of sentience, perhaps even of enlightenment if we choose to dream him as such.
But one should not confuse unenlightened ignorance with the sentience of non-duality no matter how childlike Pooh appears in his textual innocence. In fact, the very comparison jumps the track from The Tao into the trap of duality just as we all do here. I suppose we can excuse Benjamin Hoff as being “a finger pointing at the moon” despite that this allegorical attempt never gets the honey jar off its nose.
In the initial chapters, Hoff’s treatment of science lacks a clear understanding of how capable many scientists are of simply observing natural phenomena, sometimes even in a Taoist or Zen Buddhist way. Einstein even described Buddhism, related to Taoism, as the perfect way of the scientist. Hoff was in his early 30s when he wrote this book and I marvel what he would say about science now that he is in his 50s with more maturity and skilled practice in the right art of living simply and “polishing the mirror” of his mind. In fact, any cognitive therapist or self-explored practitioner of meditation, whether Taoist or otherwise, can easily admit the fallacies of “yucky generalization” and “minimization” that he dualistically applies while erroneously committing science to the pejorative categories he falsely constructs somewhere in his own fogged mirror. As a practitioner of Zen, I establish this ironic — that he criticized science and scientists alike — in fact he seemed to criticize all scholars and/or “thinkers” — for being uselessly enthralled to their own narrowly labeled “categories” when in fact he was committing the very same egregiously unenlightened thinking errors with his own projected, biased, dualistic and overly simplistic categories.
This is not to say that the scientist never misses the forest for the trees — which seemed to be his point. But in building it, he appeared in denial of the trees while condescendingly instructing the learned on the forest — a mistake made by many a novice in the art of apt effectively and truely aware.
At first I suspected he, like so many others, was unwittingly revealing himself a sham — a tree trimmer by trade who seemed unconsciously jealous of scientists for their degrees, “knowledge” and learning. Certainly Emanuel Kant would be laughing his ass off. Of Kant’s five recognizable epistemological methods for knowing truth — Tenacity, Power, Experience, Reason and Science — the young Benjamin Hoff seems to have fallen into the traps of the lower levels of “knowing” — Tenacity, Power and (sorry to say, unenlightened) Experience — lacking recognizing that each of the five should be integrated, each supporting the others, and used as *tools* in coming to “Right Thinking” in the Fantastic Universal “Way.”
Poor Pooh! He is flawed for one of the Holy Ones, a person of compassion and wisdom, a sentient being agreed to countless ways of loving kindness, a Bodhisattva, when in fact, if Pooh were real, he is being exploited and abused in the allegory jam-packed cerebral cortex of Been-Jamin’ Hoff in Taoist drag.
This book is for beginners written by a beginner. Watch out for traps! Ancient Lao-tzu should have slapped this student with his staff right into the river alongside Eyore…..”just as he is.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The leader of this book mentions early that it would be very hard to combine the teachings of the Tao with Winnie the Pooh. He said that his colleges said it was crazy and too dificult. Well, it was. Winnie the Pooh plays no role in this book besides mentioning several times how much honey he likes. So the leader continues to clarify the signifance of Tao and in between injects a pooh who is looking for honey or has some beside the point conversation with Piglet. In conclusion, if you want to find out about Taoism, don’t read this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5