![]() ![]() 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. Hoff's tired attacks on the ``Negative News Media'' and on ``Eeyore Amazons'' who ``call themselves feminists but. 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. Piglet shows the Way, turning his smallness into an asset and embodying Te (pronounced deh ), the Chinese word for virtue. ![]() Milne's classics to proclaim the social, ecological, and spiritual wisdom inherent in Taoism. Milne's children's classics to illustrate the Taoist philosophy of living in harmony with nature. Book Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat In this companion to his bestselling The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff uses the lowly and self-abnegating character from A. Benjamin Hoffs explanations of Taoism and Te through Pooh and. Like Hoff's bestselling The Tao of Pooh, this more topical and sobering sequel uses characters from A. in which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. And as for Piglet, he embodies the very important principle of Te, meaning Virtue of the Small. ![]()
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