For Taoists everywhere, the New York Times bestseller from the author of The Te of Piglet. Happy 90th birthday (10/14/16), to one of the world's most beloved icons of literature, Winnie-the-Pooh! The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese--or a venerable philosopher--but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is. And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.
The bestselling author of The Tao of Pooh offers a uniquely authentic translation of the enduring Tao Te Ching, based on the meanings of the ancient Chinese characters in use when the Taoist classic was written. From Benjamin Hoff, author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, comes The Eternal Tao Te Ching, a new translation of the Chinese philosophical classic, the Tao Te Ching. The Eternal Tao Te Ching is the first translation to employ the meanings of the pre-writing brush characters in use 2,400 years ago, when the classic was written, rather than relying on the often-different meanings of the more modern brush characters, as other translations have done. Hoff points out in his chapter notes the many incidents of meddling and muddling that have been made over the centuries by scholars and copyists, and he corrects the mistakes and removes such tampering from the text. Hoff also makes the provocative claim—and demonstrates by revealing clues in the text—that the Tao Te Ching’s author was a young nobleman hiding his identity, rather than the long-alleged author, the “Old Master” of legend, Lao-tzu. And Hoff’s chapter notes shed new light on the author’s surprisingly modern viewpoint. With a selection of lyrical color landscape photographs by the author, this is a unique, and uniquely accessible, presentation of the Tao Te Ching.
An utterly unique and accessible introduction to the ancient principles of Taoism with the world's favourite bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friend Piglet. Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear, and Pooh's Way, as Benjamin Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient Chinese principles of Taoism. And as for Piglet, he embodies the very important principle of Te, meaning Virtue of the Small. "It's hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be useful in the adventure before us." Benjamin Hoff's explanations of Taoism and Te through Pooh and Piglet show that this is not an ancient and remote philosophy but something that you can use, here and now. Beautifully illustrated by E H Shepard.
The principles of Taoist philosophy are here explained using examples from A. A. Milne's popular classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.
Winnie-the-Pooh is 'The Bear for all Ages', and now he's more fun than ever before. Join in The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet! Pooh's Way of doing things seems strangely close to the ancient principle of Taoist philosophy, while Piglet exhibits the very important principle in Taoism of the Te, meaning Virtue of the Small. The author's explanations of Taoism and Te through Pooh and Piglet show that this is not an ancient and remote philosophy but something that you can use, here and now.
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In the year 2019 50 years to the second that man first walked on the Moon the Earth inexplicitly begins a lunar transformation. The plume of lunar dust rolled across the earth silently. It swept over towns and cities alike searching and probing for any entry point. It settled on everything, squeezing and slipping between the smallest of cracks. Miniscule geological wedges that pried apart the world we knew. The Dust pervaded our place in space and time. Our great spaceship was changing, reprogramming, and instigating a reevaluation of priorities for humankind. The Dust deadened the echoes that were bouncing between the canyon walls, giving pause to reset our senses to be better equipped to understand our relationship with technology. The Moon Dust was the harbinger of the Lunafication. Follow the survivors as they navigate the Lunafication in this short story based on the series of screen prints and lithographs, by Benjamin Ilka, Lunafication.
In the year 2019 50 years to the second that man first walked on the Moon the Earth inexplicitly begins a lunar transformation. The plume of lunar dust rolled across the earth silently. It swept over towns and cities alike searching and probing for any entry point. It settled on everything, squeezing and slipping between the smallest of cracks. Miniscule geological wedges that pried apart the world we knew. The Dust pervaded our place in space and time. Our great spaceship was changing, reprogramming, and instigating a reevaluation of priorities for humankind. The Dust deadened the echoes that were bouncing between the canyon walls, giving pause to reset our senses to be better equipped to understand our relationship with technology. The Moon Dust was the harbinger of the Lunafication. Follow the survivors as they navigate the Lunafication in this short story based on the series of screen prints and lithographs, by Benjamin Ilka, Lunafication.
Humans are endowed with potential evolving great soul and a potential to become nothing at all . . . Spreading smoke screen over our foolishness is human’s/nation’s specialty and the reason for our constant stumbling over our feet and the reign of Idiocracy now. There are no exceptional people or nations because of moral alone. The only exceptionalism is attained by pursuing the goals of global sustainability, fairness, and farsighted and wise evolvement beyond sapiens limitations. This book tries to show how we can rid us of our cursed global Idiocracy by pursuing a long term, viable course for farsighted, wise and sustainable future development.
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