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The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh?! In which it is revealed that one of the world’s great Taoist masters isn’t Chinese—or a venerable philosopher—but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear: A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.

And that’s a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.

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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 author of this smash bestseller explains 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 enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living.

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Benjamin Hoff grew up in a rural area a few miles from Portland, Oregon. As a child, he preferred to spend his time outdoors, observing animals, insects, and plants. And from an early age he loved to write. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling The Te of Piglet and The Diary of Opal Whiteley.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; First Edition (July 28, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 158 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140067477
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140067477
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 810L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 7.2 inches

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Benjamin Hoff (born 1946) is an American author. He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). In 2006, he denounced the publishing industry and announced his resignation from book-writing. His book, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, won the American Book Award in 1988.

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wowsuchvery

Great philosophy for life

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2023

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Poo just accepts things as they are and meanders along happily through life while everyone around him is reacting unproductively. Ultimately it is he who finds the greatest joy and value from existence by letting go of expectations.

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What was expected

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AMB

A Wise Little Book

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This book explains Taoism in narrative form using the characters of the beloved children's book Winnie the Pooh. It uses the characters and how they relate, present and behave to illustrate the wisdom of the writings of Lao Tzu. It's an easy read and a book you'll want to read again.

The sequel, the Te of Piglet, is disappointing. The writing lacks the flow and simplicity of The Tao of Pooh and it gets weirdly political.

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Zach

Easy to understand, but a bit too critical

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The Tao of Pooh is an excellent read and, though it seems simplistic at times in terms of language and level of explanation, is able to effectively communicate one of the core messages of Taoism by the writing style alone: simplicity. The basics. The essentials.

The story of how I came across this book alone is worthy of mention. Years ago, I had printed out online articles about bodybuilding, had read them and had stored them away. After graduating from college last month, I felt the need of going through my old stuff back home to clean the place out when I came upon the articles. One of the articles, called “The Recovery Battlefield” made mention of stress and life views and referenced this book, The Tao of Pooh, as something to read on the subject of life management. Though I used to read a few pages of the Tao te Ching daily when younger, I decided to give this book a whirl thanks to the suggestion of a bodybuilding article! I thoroughly enjoyed it and many of the messages still struck me as timelessly true: the busy bee, inner nature, seeing and accepting things as they are, and so forth. The author writes about these concepts in a way that is understandable and, at the same time, very thoughtful.

As a kid watching Winnie the Pooh and reading the books, I really had no idea that the show and books touched on such deep life lessons. Though I feel the actual connection with Taoism is open to interpretation, the main concepts relating to Taoism and to Pooh touch on many of the same chords.

The only issue I had with the book is its negative portrayal of other thought systems. Though one of Taoism’s main points (according to the author, even) is to accept things for how they are, Benjamin Hoff is very critical of such bodies of thought as “the thinker” and “the calculator.” There are faults to every type of person… that is what makes us human. Being a little more open-minded and accepting would have made the author and this book a 5-star read.

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Hatred of Science in a Pooh Mask

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The contempt the author repeatedly expressed for both science and education made this book inappropriate for my young boys, ages 4 and 6. The author used the cute characters to mask his contempt for many of the things I value in my life, and you perhaps value in yours.
I read this book at night to my 4 and 6 year olds. My four year old had chosen to read The Book of Pooh four times in a row. I had used his interest in Pooh to help him learn other things, like math and drawing. I saw this book as a way to introduce some big philosophical concepts.
This may very well be an introduction to Tao, I don't know. If "The Way" means basically "To Criticize" then this is it. The author's point seems to be "Be Like Pooh." The problem is, he cannot do it himself. If the author acted more like Pooh, his book would not be so objectionable to my children. Can you imagine Pooh criticizing at all?
When the author started talking about science as pointless and silly, my 6 year old (who was sitting in) asked what was wrong with science? He wants to be a scientist. And when the author went on on a tirade about academics and school and even (ironically) books, I was shocked. My boys are both in classes of some sort, and they don't know what to do with the author's low opinion of school.
There were many of these gems of knowledge. One other one I remember is that exercise is worthless. Better he says to just lay on the grass. No kidding. My kids are very active (as is Pooh) and I hope they are active their whole lives. The advice in this book is questionable at best, and totally inappropriate for children. If you are an adult, have failed at school, and sit on a couch all day, then this book will provide you with a justification.

The author is a Talk Radio DJ, in the disguise as a mystic, putting on a puppet show starring Pooh. He hijacks a childhood hero to vent his frustration at a failed college career. Underneath his "be simple, like Pooh" message is a great deal of anger and frustration that bubble to the surface in ill-chosen exaggerations about "narrow minded science" and "irrelevant academia" and joggers. Did he not get tenure at Cal Tech, or something? While he derides science as pointless study, one wonders if he drives a car, takes medicine, prints his books on printing presses, travels by some other means than his feet, in short... does he benefit from science? If so, the word "hypocrite" springs to mind.
We never finished the book. My four year old, who is FAR more Pooh-like than the author, simply knew that something wasn't right, and would actually pick another book and read it silently while I read this book aloud. He had never done that before, or since, and it was his Pooh way of telling me that this guy wasn't appropriate. So when my six year old asked, "How can he be against books - when he wrote one?" we stopped. The boy had a point. Any author of a book who derides authors and readers of books for being too academic is clearly a fool.
The author does not have the inner peace and sense of fun and play that Pooh possesses. Instead, he parades these cute characters about and (from time to time) sneers hate-filled generalizations about things he chooses not to respect. I hear his second book is the same, but worse. If that is "The Way" then count me out.

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A great gateway into the world of the Tao. It's not childish. You'll learn a lot.

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Great gift

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2022

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Love the book. Using copies for my team.

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Ken

It's kinda cringe but I like it anyway

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2022

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This is twice as costly and difficult to read as a Tao te Ching but it's cute albeit kinda cringy sometimes. I feel as though this book is incredibly niche though because you have to have an interest in both Tao and Pooh to actually care but if you do I think you'll enjoy it. The original Tao te Ching is just as straightforward and less wordy so if you're trying to actually learn about Taoism maybe just read that.

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dustspeck

Doesn't really work for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 8, 2020

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This is a relatively old book and therefore it may have had more of an impact on me if I had read it when it was first published.

Instead what we have is an author who seems to try and force Taoist philosophy into Winnie the Pooh. While there is certainly some material which matches the philosophy there are three problems as far as I am concerned.

The first is that that author really seems to hate every other character in the original Winnie the Pooh who isn't Pooh. This is not strictly true as Piglet gets a bit of a pass but then you find out the author also wrote a book about Piglet. Every other character is portrayed as being seriously flawed.

The second problem is that the author doesn't explain how the world would work if everyone followed the philosophy. For example, who would actually collect the honey if we all decided that this was too much work? How could we listen to Beethoven's 9th if he had read this book and instead of studying music he had decided to wander around the woods all day?

Finally, the actual quotes from original Taoist philosophers are way more interesting than the author's attempt to crowbar in his theories into Pooh tales. This just shows up how forced the book is. On the other hand, it may actually make readers want to seek out more Taoist philosophy so could be seen as working.

As I said, it may have had a more beneficial impact on me if I had read it when it first came out as there is some ideas on mindfulness in the book but these ideas are now much more widespread.

In my opinion, save your money and buy an introductory book on Taoist philosophy, one on mindfulness and, if you want, the original Pooh books.

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G Purdie

This book changed my life

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Okay, a bit of hyperbole maybe, but in some ways it did. I read (most of) my original copy when I was about 15 years old, and the easy (but not patronising) concepts of Taoism fitted very neatly with my developing Christian faith, and later with my work in the fields of CBT and Recovery. All of these things are very much singing from the same song sheet, and it was Winne The Pooh who first helped me to start seeing how it all fits together.

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Isapider

The wisest bear in the world !!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 14, 2018

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Anyone who was brought up on Winnie the Pooh should read this and take heed. For a "bear of very little brain" he had an amazingly balanced attitude to life. Every Pooh fan who is over 60 should make this essential reading.

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Annie

No matter what you say, Pooh Bear is a Genius.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 3, 2013

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The idea is genius, the writing style is genius, and that lovable yellow bear... is a genius too ;)

We HUGELY overcomplicate things in life, looking down on 'the simple' because we deem ourselves to be 'too busy/intelligent/important'.

However, it is impossible for us little humans to ever entirely understand the Universe, time and the way of life, so why not take on the Way of Pooh instead? It seems to work for him! :P

I couldn't help a constant smile lightning my face whenever I read this book this book, and I challenge anyone not to do the same! Please stop angrily racing around office floors late into the night, fuelled by crazy caffeine - read it!

(I also say this considering I feel ashamed that a thoughtlessly placed lamp burnt a hole in my old Pooh Bear teddy's back many Christmas' ago, because I was too consumed with greedily opening my new toys rather to care for his wellbeing... Therefore this is my way of saying sorry - please forgive me Pooh! :P)

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Chris

Makes one feel better.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2022

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I don't know why, but you feel better for reading it. The way of least resistance?

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