Reddit reviews The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet
We found 6 Reddit comments about The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
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Reddit reviews The Tao of Pooh and The Te of PigletWe found 6 Reddit comments about The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
You can't ever truly buy back your health, so start the THRIVE diet as soon as you can and keep yourself in shape.
Skip relationships and any drugs that won't help regulate your behaviour. Jerking off is cheaper for now and not nearly as much time or effort.
Avoid spirituality and soul searching for now. The world's a fucked up place, sure, but everything will proceed with or without your special view on things. To truly know what's wrong with humanity, study humanity and it's approach. Future me note: You will fucking LOVE anthropology.
Focus on your craft, whether it's writing or drawing or acting or filmmaking or whatever. For instance writing: if you just brave through and write as much as you can every single day, by age 30 you'll have a good FORTY or more novels completed. Trust me, with forty products on Amazon you won't have to work a day. Nike, man, Nike. JUST FUCKING DO IT.
Save every penny now - you can buy all those shiny new video games and comic books when they're in the bargin bin.
Invest all that money into a giant pile, but for lord's sake in a Credit Union or a non bend-you-over bank.
Practice your craft to a degree that you can make money without a shitty dayjob.
If you study a new language every day, you will eventually know a shitton of languages.
After you've invested all the saved money and the well earned money into a pile, you no longer need to work as the money's compounded interest makes more money in a day than you can.
By age 30 you'll be independently wealth, healthy and fit, extremely happy, know a lot of languages, have perfected a craft, and have a lot of free time on hand: use this to acquire relationships with anyone you want and chase your own hobbies in the luxury of time.
...if I knew this list of things back then, if I KNEW the things I KNOW now: I would not be in the shithole condition I am now. "If gets better" only works if you make things better with your hard work.
I'm days late to the party but still wanted to reply.
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"All of them and none of them" is going to be ( albeit frustratingly ) your best answer haha!
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Like most philosophy its a bit like fine art... meant to be thought provoking yet very personally interpreted. The empty spaces between concepts laid out by words are where the real value is. So really you are trying to capture the 'accurate' feeling of those gaps, of that nothingness.
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Yet at the same time one of the best concepts from the Tao Te Ching is simply that if you can put it into words then it is not 'the eternal tao'. Really this means that it cannot be neatly defined by language. This makes the fact, that we require translations, to be less impactful on our attempts to understand the text.
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So I cannot answer you as you would like. But I can honestly say that this is because there really is not a best translation. I own many different copies and related works ( on mentoring, on parenting, on this on that etc etc ) simply because there is not a single best iteration.
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I have ended up favoring two copies both of which are actually 'illustrated' - but do not hate on illustrations! Since they are illustrated I leave them out in the open like coffee table book style. Over time I've grown fond of them and their particular translations. Worth noting, the illustrated aspect of both books came AFTER the translating work... as in these authors didn't set out to make pictures they set out to translate accurately first then after many years made illustrated versions.
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One is by Stephen Mitchell. He is a renown translator. His Book
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The other is by Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay w/ calligraphy by Kwok-Lap Chan. Link for convenience
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I also found this on Mentoring and this classic on Parenting to both be very good.
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Final thought. I wanted to address your direct inquiry honestly ( ie: cannot label a 'best' ) but also provide some specific works that I have found value in. I also want to make a final recommendation to learn about Taoist philosophy. The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet. Amazon Link to box set of the two.
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Those two books are excellent for the studied as well as the unfamiliar reader. They thoughtfully explain how Winnie the Pooh is almost a perfect representation of taoist principles and concepts. I found these two books to be a really great way for me to personally cement philosophical concepts to real world practice. Having to read and think about full situations ( even if cartoon ) really helped me to memorize practical take-aways.
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So in summary, the TL;DR is this...
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Whether you just want to explore a copy, or dive headfirst into The Way, I hope you can find some of this advice helpful!
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the Tao of Pooh was a surprisingly good book.
http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Pooh-Piglet-Boxed-Set/dp/014095144X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332330401&sr=8-1
Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet might be a good start if you're interested in Taoist philosophy.
Section 4 of the Urantia Book.
I was a young adult, and very disillusioned with the kind of Christianity I was brought up with. I was an athiest, but I wasn't comfortable with my newfound atheism. I very angry that I thought I had been lied too for all those years. I thought that my Atheism was truth, and Christians were just a bunch of cowards that lied to themselves to provide a little comfort. This bloomed into a very obnoxious "You're at best an idiot, at worst a liar." type of attitude toward anyone that professed any type of belief in something. In short, I had become an elitist dick.
But also during this time, I found myself exploring the world's religions, including plenty of new age crap. I was reading stuff like The Tao of Pooh, A Path With Heart and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I experimented with meditation, played with I Ching and Tarot Cards. Losing my belief in God had left a festering dark spot in me that I subconsciously sought to fill.
I read the Urantia Book off an on over many years, mostly as entertainment, but eventually I gradually realized that I wasn't athiest anymore. I really believed in the Jesus portrayed in Section 4 of the UB. I found myself saying yes, yes this is what my God is like.
My point is that it's an innate human drive to understand the metaphysical. I'm not trying to use that as a buzzword. It really, literally means things-transcending-science.
Some people want to explain those (metaphysical) things away to control you, other have stupid answers; some search within themselves, others in nature.
Religion is bigger and broader than what this nerd circlejerk sometimes makes it out to be. Read Mama Lola. Read about shamanism. Pick up a copy of the The Tao of Pooh, look up at the sky and think about everything you just plain don't understand.
Religion is necessary, just not for the reasons you might think. It will do us good to get rid of it as an institution, but it will stay with us as long as we're human.