I understand the idea behind the Busy Backson rant, but is there no middle ground at all? Rather than believing in the give and take of Ying and Yang (or any other name it may go under) he's against intellectuals who are secretly foolish for trying to figure anything about the world, against people who work hard and care about their jobs or contributions (again that's just foolish), people who enjoy sports or exercise.heck he's against leaving your house or caring about the rest of the world. The author is against pretty much anything useful. Then about two thirds through the book, it just becomes insulting. Those were great books with great characters, each with their own type of intelligence. Pooh as western Taoist starts off interestingly enough but halfway through it I came to the realization that it was making me want to just read the actual Milne, who was frankly probably a genius writer. Milne and juxtaposed them with the Taoist teachings of people such as Lao Tzu. The author took the stories and characters of A.A.

This is a unique, and uniquely accessible, presentation of the Tao Te Ching.I picked up this book because it seemed so charming. And Hoff's chapter notes shed new light on the author's surprisingly modern viewpoint. Hoff also makes the provocative claim-and demonstrates by revealing clues in the text-that the author of Tao Te Ching was a young nobleman hiding his identity, rather than the long alleged author, the 'Old Master' of legend, Lao-tzu. 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. 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. 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.įrom 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.

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