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Summary: Doing without doing
Review: Benjamin Hoff is trying to show us the way to flow. How to stop and enjoy the life. One of my good friend told me that life is just like a bubble of beer. You have to stop and enjoy the smell. After reading this book, I've realized that I have been studying absent-mindedly. Only for the scholarly career. Let take a deep breath and live for today's jouissance.
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Summary: Changed My Life !
Review: The Tao of Pooh is one of the books that I can sincerely describe as "changing my life."It provides an excellent description of Taoist philosophy, with a sense of humor and fun. It is an easy read, and moves along very quickly. It combines stories from ancient Taoist text, clips from Pooh Bear stories, and some light academic discussion about Taoism. Author Benjamin Hoff is a bit preachy in a few isolated sections, but it is not a significant part of the book.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: I JUST LOVED IT , MAKES YOU SMILE ALL THE WAY
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Summary: A very simple yet complex view to the world..excellent!!
Review: This book is excellent. In everyday practice you can really learn the true meaning of what really is important in your life. If you like Eastern philosophy, you'll love this book. If you like Winnie the Pooh, you'll find this book fascinating. it's amazing how something so obvious is so hard to see.
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Summary: simple, thought provoking
Review: hoff written such a lovely book, it's so simple and clear, yet so much fun. He explained the great teachings of Taoism resembledd in winnie the pooh. His way of writing his book by using the parts of pooh's stories make reading his book seem even more interesting. It's simple and easy to understand.
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Summary: Very insightful and well written to the beginner of Tao
Review: Hi, I'm a philosophy student that just read this book for my eastern philosophy class in Geneseo ny. I must say I was more impressed in this book that I thought I would be. The sublties of words really make the book come alive. I am going to try to read this book again.
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Summary: Who would've thunk that Pooh was so enlightened?!
Review: I never really liked Winnie. I heard the stories about the little dumb bear & his friends, but they made me feeling irritated. Then i found this book, and since I've been reading a lot bout eastern religions and philosophies, I thought that maybe Taoism would be what I was searching for. This book introduced me to Tao in a very joyful kind of way, and it gave me a better opinion of Winnie too: his not really dumb at all, he's just happy, and that's what Taoism is all about.
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Summary: This book is both enjoyable and spiritual
Review: I have decided that this book is a must gift for anyone and everyone you care about. It opens all readers up to the simplicity and joy of living. It helps you realize how much stress and energy, we put into things that aren't entirely important. Meanwhile we allow the joys of life to go fleeting by everyday. A true treasure.
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Summary: Fish out of water
Review: Please, please buy 'The Way of Zen' by Allan Watts and 'The House at Pooh Corner' by A.A. Milne, rather than this book. Hoff does great injustice to both Zen and Pooh in this trivialization of the artless and the sublime. Only the kind of people who think a five-star haut cuisine meal is a rip-off because you could get more at McDonald's for the same money could possible think this a good book. Zen is not explicable (see Watts' book) and Milne (re: Pooh) is inimitible. These observations are doubly true in the case of someone, like Hoff, who has a severely restricted vocabulary, no facility with the language and a complete lack of respect for his subject matter. Please, please DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Hoff doesn't really understand human nature.
Review: I don't know if it's a flaw in Taoism or in Hoff's logic, but he preaches the importance of appreciating things as they are and not struggling against them, while ignoring the fact that the nature of humanity is to change things. Humans struggle to become (or at least appear) other than what they are, and this involves changing the self and the things around oneself. Hoff foolishly ignores this and reduces humanity to the level of fish that are trying in vain to whistle.
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