Benjamin Hoff uses Winnie the Pooh and his friends to explain the principles of the Tao.
There really is a fair bit of gentle wisdom to be extracted from the stories of Winnie, Eeyore, and the others, and Hoff does a decent job of it. Sadly, it's no more than decent. There's an insistent, one-note, "if you don't agree then clearly you just don't understand, and are wrong" tone that rears its head repeatedly. It does grate on me from time to time.
Yet at the same time, he also does, often, throughout this short book, quite nicely and charmingly capture the ways in which simple, uncomplicated Pooh can find the right answer while his "smarter" friends are getting lost in complications of their own making.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but perhaps just reading or listening to Milne's own stories might be even more rewarding.
I bought this audiobook.
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