Tao+of+Pooh

**__The Tao of Pooh__ is a book that helps give the reader a look at how a Daoist lives and views the world. Although one may know of the concepts and aspects of Daoism one cannot fully comprehend it until it is experienced, or in this case read it and understand it on a basic level. Daoism itself is not very complicated, it is just being what you are; as stated in the book frequently, while many overthink, hesisitate, calculate, and fret, Pooh, or the Daoist, just is. The thing that stood out the most in this book was that what seemed like an innocent little kids show would never be viewed the same after reading this book. It was in a sense a sneaky way to sneak Daoism into a child's subconscious. With books, you learn of the terms that are a part of Daoism but __The Tao of Pooh__ gives examples to help the reader understand the way a Daoist thinks and why a Daoist believes that Daoism is the right way to go. In all the examples given in the book while Owl, the scholar, is the most intelligent he can never get anything done. He always overthinks the problem at hand. However Pooh, who is not too smart and is many times put down because he is not "book smart" always comes up with a solution by just not thinking about it or fretting but just carrying on with what he is doing at the moment until he has a lightbulb moment and carries out his plan.**

**After reading __The Tao of Pooh__ Winnie the Pooh is no longer a cute, innocent little character from a kid's show. Now Winnie the Pooh is a message, a missionary preaching Daoism to people without the people realizing it. Winnie the Pooh is a mediator between people of different religions and Daoism. Yet many people will remain ignorant to this because they have not read or learned about the meaning behind this show. Before reading __The Tao of Pooh__ Daoism was hard to understand, the terms and what they were are easy but it can be hard to** **put together how Daoists find this logical. But once again, to a Daoist things do not have to be logical, they simply are the way they are. A daoist does what they want when they want to and does not worry about the future or what could happen. They simply do what they want and things somehow always workout because of the way of the Dao. Daoists did not strive to end the Period of the Warring States, they respected the principle of Wu Wei, or inaction. And the Daoists were probably the amount of people who least died since they did not fight but simply let The Dao do its job, no, they did not end the Period of the Warring States either but that was not the Dao's plan.**  **Well written! The only item missing from your reflection is specific examples to illustrate your point. It would be a lot stronger if the points you summarize so well are illustrated with mention of specific examples from the book this that taught you all of this.**  **Reflection 9, English 9.5**