Having read this I now try to arrange my day so that I can spend half an hour a day in my garden with my cat just doing nothing but observing nature and thinking the thoughts that come to mind. Tzu Jan, or 'self so', meaning that things happen by themselves, spontaneously,Īlong the way we learn the pitfalls of being too busy and the benefits of doing nothing (for example meditation and contemplation). Wu Wei, or proceeding without doing, causing, or making, Inner Nature, being those things that make us exactly who we are, P'u, or natural simplicity, the Uncarved Block, Tao, or the indescribable Way of the universe, Milne's effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear Winnie-the-Pooh. The book covers the Taoist principles of: The Tao of Pooh Author: Benjamin Hoff One of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese, or a venerable philosopher, but is in fact none other than A. Owl is wise, Rabbit is cleaver and Eeore is smugly superior but the real hero of the books is Pooh, the apparently stupid yet strangely successful and able bear. He is merely saying that Milne's inner attitude to life, as revealed by the stories, intuitively follow along the same path as Taoism. Hoff is not by any means arguing that Milne was a Taoist. Milne's stories of Winnie-The-Pooh can be used to illustrate the basic notions of Taoism. This book is based around the idea that A.
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