Hello and welcome to Celebration of Books! I’m Sarah, a thirty-something bookstore community outreach liaison at an independent bookstore in the Philadelphia suburbs. I would recommend The Tao of Pooh over Peace is Every Step. While it is important to understand the world around us, sometimes we need to let the minutiae of everyday life go and be more like Pooh.Ī beautiful little gift book, it is worth a read for anyone who is feeling stressed about the little things in life and could use a bit of peace and sound mind. He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). Living and thinking without over thinking or dwelling on how the world works. 'Benjamin Hoff (born 1946) is an American author. Told in a series of short vignettes, written as though the author, Benjamin Hoff, has walked into the Wood to have a conversation with our beloved friends, The Tao of Pooh offers a glimpse not into mindfulness, as many popular books today do, but simply the art and way of just being. There really is a fair bit of gentle wisdom to be extracted from the. I was thrilled that all of my favorite friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood make and appearance in The Tao of Pooh. Benjamin Hoff uses Winnie the Pooh and his friends to explain the principles of the Tao. I grew up having the stories read to me, had stuffed animals of all the characters, and developed a particular fondness for Eeyore (the Eeyore pictures is my winter ice skating Eeyore and I have many more!). And that’s a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is. The author of The Tao of Pooh is an American Taoist who uses Winnie the Pooh to illustrate the central concepts and principles in Taoism (like Tao, P’u, and Wu Wei). Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. 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. Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide) Hoff, Benjamin, 1946. I have long been intrigued by The Tao of Pooh and decided the holiday season was a good time to read it to try to keep myself settled and focused. Benjamin Hoff is an Oregon writer, photographer, musician, and composer with a fondness for Forests and Bears.
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