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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
This is a horrific observation on Taoism using the Pooh characters.
It very much feels like a book from the early 1980s. The inability for the author to go into any true detail of Taoism. There is no reference to the culture, the history or the socio-political situation means you get the typical Americanized whitewashing of a religion/philosophy.
I am not a religion expert, but I am buddhist (casual) and I have taken several classes on non-Western religions including Taoism, Confucianism, and other religions. It is so much more detailed then this book. Without having the details around the philosophy it becomes misleading.
The worst part though, it is boring as hell and though might have been a best seller in 1982 that doesn't really count for interesting or accurate.
It very much feels like a book from the early 1980s. The inability for the author to go into any true detail of Taoism. There is no reference to the culture, the history or the socio-political situation means you get the typical Americanized whitewashing of a religion/philosophy.
I am not a religion expert, but I am buddhist (casual) and I have taken several classes on non-Western religions including Taoism, Confucianism, and other religions. It is so much more detailed then this book. Without having the details around the philosophy it becomes misleading.
The worst part though, it is boring as hell and though might have been a best seller in 1982 that doesn't really count for interesting or accurate.
The only upside to this book was that it got me to read the actual Winnie the Pooh stories, which were superb.
Do not read this book, instead read the original stories and draw your own conclusions. The original stories are a far better philosophy book than this mess of self-contradictions and ridiculous stereotypes.
Do not read this book, instead read the original stories and draw your own conclusions. The original stories are a far better philosophy book than this mess of self-contradictions and ridiculous stereotypes.
This was the first book assigned in our East Asian Colloquium on major texts class. As far as I remember, a very good read.
Philosophy? Yes. And, as if often the case, I didn't really "get" it. But I adored the pooh stories and so endured the lectures to hear more of the adventures of a bear of little intellect.
I picked this up after an Audible sale. This is often referred to as the best primer for Taoism. I’ll admit, I’m not much of a philosopher so this was harder to get into than I thought. As an audiobook, I also had a hard time differentiating between the narrator’s version of Eeyore vs. Pooh or other similar characters like Piglet and Rabbit. And, it’s hard for me to really buy into this philosophy at all – that things are as they’re meant to be, in their natural state. If that’s the case, my natural state is spiteful cynicism.
cute, thoughtful book that will become an especially useful reread if I ever become a workaholic
+ 113 Lu Yu: 'the clouds above us join & separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves & returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?'
The breeze in the courtyard leaves & returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?'
Eh, it was kind of pretentious. My teacher seems to assigns books like that.