 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com In The Te of Piglet, a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet herein demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: The Te-a Chinese word meaning Virtue-of the Small. Average Customer Rating:  
Even Better than the âaeTao of Poohâ!
| Customer Rating: | This sequel of the masterpiece âaeTao of Poohâ beats the original in terms of density of ideas and clarity of presentation. It is nearly double the size of âaeThe Tao of Poohâ, hence gave me double the pleasure of reading it. Having read A.A. Milneâ(tm)s Pooh classics, and having thoroughly enjoyed the âaeTao of Poohâ, it was only natural that I buy this book and have more fun learning about Taoism through the enjoyable adventures of Pooh and Piglet.
This volume focuses on the various Piglet stories, showing us how smallness can be a virtue (Te). It recounts Pigletâ(tm)s myriad adventures: the Heffalump, Owlâ(tm)s house episode, and encounters with Tigger and Eeyore to teach us about philosophical truths: things can look different that what they are, one needs to find their place and live in harmony with nature, etc. Actually, in almost an imperceptible way the author gets us to think about fundamental issues that are at the core of our relationship with the modern world. For example, how the West borrowed early scientific knowledge from the East but did not borrow the philosophical basis behind that knowledge. Since I pursue a science career, this particular issue triggers an important bell for me. One can almost sense an anti-science substratum in the book, yet as a scientist I cannot help agree with the author in many cases. Science today is like a vehicle running amok without a driver. Is this really good for us? Why arenâ(tm)t we even asking ourselves these questions? At least Benjamin Hoff does, and he deserves an open ear.
Of course, not all the ideas are developed into an indisputable treatise. This book is classified as âaehumorâ after all. This is perhaps appropriate since the Taoist attitude to life also depends on humor to some extent. Pooh and Piglet, the humorous characters who do not take themselves seriously are in a way the perfect vehicle to illustrate ancient Taoist principles. This is a highly recommended book!
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Loved Piglet, but Pooh was bette
| Customer Rating: | | This book wasn't bad, I just liked Pooh's better. Hopefully they won't make a "Depression of Eeyore" lol. |
Piglet strikes back
| Customer Rating: | | Hoff manages to unravel the core of the Tao and the Te using images we all know and love. He makes Taoism accessible and recognizable. These are well written, easily read and re-read. Using these images to illustrate a philosophy that can be very elusive is a master stroke. |
Please someone make it stop!! Please!!!
| Customer Rating: | This was a horrible, horrible, need I say it again, horrible book!!!!
Obviously the author hounded to make a sequel of the much loved "Tao Of Pooh", took the opportunity to raise money for his next mortgage and car payment and wrote this book to appease his editor.
This book had no structure and I wasn't sure it had any meaning at all to it. He explained nothing really just little bits and peices of thing in between his ranting and ravings.
He misquoted several chapters of the "Tao Te Ching".
He makes a mockery of knowledge seekers(is that not we are? The ones who are reading his books?).
He slams our military and he slams our government and he rants about our environment and on and on and on and on. I could be wrong but doesn't this guy live in America? From this book I get the feeling that he hates this country and culture. So why doesn't he go to China since he talks of it being a great country if he hates our country so badly? Our Military gave him the freedom to write this book.
This author really protrays a lot of hate and hostility instead of the love and positivity that he was suppose to be writing about.
Furthermore compared to the last book, he makes the charactures of pooh in this book very mean. It really has nothing to do with Piglet except that was what the book was suppose to be about somehow.
I finsished reading this just because I like to start what I finish. I would have rather have pulled my hair out than finish this book less than half way through it.
I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Spend your hard earned money on any other book but this.
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Hoff Sounds Like the Biggest Eeyore of Them All...
| Customer Rating: | | The Te of Piglet started off innocent enough, why with cute characters and even cuter writing how could this turn out bad? Don't get comfortable just yet! Before I knew it, I was being bombarded by Hoff's complaints about the Western world and its wretched politics. Oh how the West has lost its way--or rather, never knew the way to begin with! This is NOT a spiritually informative book, it is a compilation of Hoff's frustrations with the Western world, in particular, America. He makes it a point to vilify Eeyore who, to my knowledge, was always a lovable, albeit, depressive character. Furthermore, on the one hand, Hoff criticizes China's authoritarian government and on the other, he praises them, saying "these people know something" when referring to the country's tree planting policy. Perhaps it isn't that the Chinese are so wise and forward thinking that they know to instill tree-planting into children's hearts but rather that China has some of the worst desertification problems on this planet and that the Gobi Desert grows by the size of three Englands a year! Don't buy Hoff's political rants either because a few of his opinions are uninformed. Lovers of the Tao of Pooh, be forewarned, this does not deserve to be called its companion book. After I completed the Te of Piglet, I found it hard to take anything from Hoff seriously again. Aside from lacking the spirit of Taoism, the book is just plain disorganized. I am still wondering, "what was the point of all that?" |
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