![]() It's a better book, better written and doesn't hypocritically tell you to ditch the very thing that made mass distribution of it possible. ![]() The writer uses Winnie-the-Pooh and other characters from A.A. In 2006, he denounced the publishing industry and announced his resignation from book-writing. The Tao of Pooh is a book that explains the principles of Taoism. Benjamin Hoff shows, through the adventures of Pooh and his companions, that a happier, more contented life is not such a distant or unachievable concept it is. If you want to read a useful book about engaging life and other people, get James Carse's "Finite and Infinite Games". He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). Benjamin Hoff is the author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, the two of which spent 108 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and brought Taoist philosophy to the attention of mainstream America. Science doesn't have all the answers concerning life, the universe and everything, but it has some (and clearly far more than Hoff bothered to educate himself concerning), and the number and quality of them is every-increasing. Two of his books on Taoism, The Tao of Pooh and The Te. His reasoning for this was ill-informed at best, willfully ignorant at worst and, I'm quite sure he makes use of the inventions of science just as much as the rest of us. Benjamin Hoff (born 1946) is an author based in the United States. While there is some wisdom in it - slow your life down, try to live more harmoniously, etc - this had way too much of the "don't try, just let things happen and it will all work out" message that was present in Coelho's "The Alchemist."(Maybe Hoff was channeling Coelho when he wrote this.) However what I found most deplorable was Hoff's flat out repudiation of science. Shepard (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating 116,243 ratings published 1982 123 editions.
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