The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
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- Pub. Date: September 1992
- 272pp
- Sales Rank: 110,103
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 1992
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Hardcover, 272pp
- Sales Rank: 110,103
- Series: Pooh Series
- ISBN-13: 9780525934967
- ISBN: 0525934960
Synopsis
What is Te? What is Taoism? What has Piglet to do with either? Te (pronounced "Deh") is Chinese for Virtue. Taoism is a Chinese philosophy. (Practically speaking, it's more than "Chinese," and more than "philosophy," but we'll get into the whys and hows of that further on, inside this book). And Piglet has quite a bit to do with both. What exactly? In the first place . . . That is, he . . . What we mean is . . . Perhaps we'd better let the author do the explaining. In any event, Piglet not only has quite a bit to do with Te and Taoism; he also has quite a bit to do with you and me - as have Te and Taoism - whoever we may happen to be, whatever we may happen to be doing. And that is a Very Useful Thing to Know. As you will see.
Annotation
The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way of the Small.
Publishers Weekly
Like Hoff's bestselling The Tao of Pooh , this more topical and sobering sequel uses characters from A. A. Milne's children's classics to illustrate the Taoist philosophy of living in harmony with nature. Piglet shows the Way, turning his smallness into an asset and embodying Te (pronounced deh ), the Chinese word for virtue. Illustrated with drawings from the original Pooh books and quoting liberally from them, this forceful New Age sermon condemns the rape of the environment, unsafe, unnecessary nuclear power plants, the bloated military budget, computers in the classroom, giant corporations, jingoist support for the Persian Gulf war and a succession of ``self-centered, ignoramus Conservative'' presidents. Hoff's tired attacks on the ``Negative News Media'' and on ``Eeyore Amazons'' who ``call themselves feminists but . . . don't like femininity'' weaken his presentation, but on the whole, his Taoist manifesto distills ageless personal and political wisdom, relaying an ecological message we ignore at our peril. (Sept.)
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fun to read and apply to your life and freindsby Anonymous
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February 13, 2009: I liked it better than the Tao of Pooh. Seemed to have more useful information.
Great for readers interested in Taoism, not necessarily for Pooh & Friends fans who don't care aby ProfessionalBookNerd
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January 03, 2009: This is a very well written book about Taoist philosophy. If I picked up this book thinking it was going to be a cute little Pooh book, I would be confused and disappointed. But for the reader interested in Taoism, this is a very entertaining, insightful, refreshing take on the philosophy. Same goes for Tao of Pooh.
I Also Recommend: The Tao of Pooh, Pooh and the Philosophers, Pooh and the Psychologists, Tao Teh Ching.
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