The Tao of Pooh.summary

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WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR WEBSITE? You can! Please include the following statement: “Reprinted from WELLth Learning Network’s free monthly ezine that delivers insights, tools and techniques to further YOU in breathing your legacy intention.” LYGL eZine © 2007 www.wellthlearningnetwork.com [email protected] Tao of Pooh Volume 1, Issue 9, November 2004 ISSN# 1710-2359 The following article is my summary of the book Tao of Pooh. It is written without the usual sentence by paragraph format. I guess you could say, it is written poetically. And I have written it for you. Hope you enjoy. Opening Thought > You are an educator of valuable lessons rather than a seller of traps. You need to learn the universal laws, for they are to be followed as you live your great life. Come willingly to the way of Tao appreciating everyday, learning everyday, working everyday. P'u – natural state – Un-carved Block > There is simplicity in natural power. When simplicity is altered something is lost. Simplicity-when expressed in its true form-is WISDOM. In simplicity, find the childlike aspects of your life. Life is fun. Get rid of the arrogance and complexity and find ways to balance simplicity and complexity. In what you do each day, find the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Seek to experience spontaneity. Be careful not to collect knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Once knowledge is collected, make sure to share what you know in ways that are understandable for others because to do otherwise is pompous and pretentious. Sharing with an enlightened mind is a worldly contribution. Everything has its place and function. Attend to what you alter. Know and respect your own Inner Nature, your Inner-net. Discover and explore things as they are. Come to know what you are, have and do, for this knowing wisdom guides you to living your great life and to recognizing your vulnerabilities and constraints while growing your potentials and possibilities. Living a weakness can become strength just as an external limitation can become opportunity. To be wise means continually knowing who you are, whereas the foolish continue to look for something. Seek to understand what is special about you, then share that story.

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Tao of Pooh Volume 1, Issue 9, November 2004 ISSN# 1710-2359

The following article is my summary of the book Tao of Pooh. It is written without the usual sentence by paragraph format. I guess you could say, it is written

poetically. And I have written it for you. Hope you enjoy.

Opening Thought >

• You are an educator of valuable lessons rather than a seller of traps.

• You need to learn the universal laws, for they are to be followed as you live your great life.

• Come willingly to the way of Tao appreciating everyday, learning everyday,

working everyday.

P'u – natural state – Un-carved Block >

• There is simplicity in natural power. When simplicity is altered something is lost.

• Simplicity-when expressed in its true form-is WISDOM. • In simplicity, find the childlike aspects of your life.

• Life is fun. Get rid of the arrogance and complexity and find ways to balance simplicity and complexity. In what you do each day, find the simple and the

quiet, the natural and the plain. Seek to experience spontaneity. • Be careful not to collect knowledge for knowledge’s sake. • Once knowledge is collected, make sure to share what you know in ways that

are understandable for others because to do otherwise is pompous and pretentious. Sharing with an enlightened mind is a worldly contribution.

• Everything has its place and function. Attend to what you alter. • Know and respect your own Inner Nature, your Inner-net. Discover and

explore things as they are.

• Come to know what you are, have and do, for this knowing wisdom guides you to living your great life and to recognizing your vulnerabilities and

constraints while growing your potentials and possibilities. • Living a weakness can become strength just as an external limitation can

become opportunity.

• To be wise means continually knowing who you are, whereas the foolish continue to look for something.

• Seek to understand what is special about you, then share that story.

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Wu Wei – Non-action >

• Living your great life does not involve meddlesome, combative or egotistical effort.

• It is about living with the natural rhythms of things ie not struggling with natural laws, because through one's Inner Being one finds non-action.

• Natural laws do not make mistakes. Humans do.

• Consider: o Ego - forcing a round peg into a square hole.

o Cleverness - crafting ways of making round pegs fit into square holes. o Knowledge - why round pegs fit into round holes. o Wu Wei - it does it and things get done.

o When you try too hard, things do not work. • To resolve conflict, try yielding rather than applying more force. It is about

neutralizing the negative force. • Living your great life means being sensitive to circumstances – your 6th

sense. While strange, it is stranger not to listen.

• Your daily reward is listening to the birds, speaking with your friends and/or playing with your child because in seeking some Great Reward you are

missing out on the present (again-spacing?). • Time cannot be saved. It can be spent either wisely or foolishly. • The reward is in the journey, not so much the destination.

• The reward is in the moments before the goal is reached. • The reward is enjoying one's surroundings.

• The reward is about appreciating being alive.

Courage and Caring >

• Everyone is special. Their uniqueness contributes to this world. • Take time to recognize your own value. • You need to believe in you. Find the personal power within.

• Through caring comes courage and-more importantly-wisdom. • From wisdom the heart extends to include others ['cor' is Latin for heart, and

basis for 'courage']. • The more caring you exhibit, the more caring is your companion. • Be wary of the injustice of thinking too much and caring too little.

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Final Thought >

• Wisdom comes from removing things everyday, for the wise are childlike in knowing and they nurture their childlike qualities in whatever they do.