No doubt, The Ching of Eeyore comes next. Beneath the goofy grin one finds bared teeth, as Hoff snaps away peevishly at Confucianism (``authoritarian, No- Nonsense attitude toward life''), Christianity, feminism (``behind their antimasculine words, it's Overmasculinity as Usual''), Republicans, critics, computers-whatever raises his Taoist hackles. The trick is to ``observe, deduce, apply'' once done, the millennial ``Day of Piglet'' will arrive and human beings will once again achieve ``the state of paradise that existed before the Great Separation occurred.'' Watch out, though: All is not summer in the 100-Acre Wood.

Milne, who must be groaning in his grave, likes capital letters Very Much), and the diminutive porker's adventures are the perfect means to preach, Very Lightly, about being positive and ecological and upright. Piglet, you see, is a ``Very Small Animal'' (for all his talk about smallness, Hoff, like A.A. Now, as luck would have it, Pooh's buddy Piglet turns out to be the perfect embodiment of Te, the Taoist term for virtue, which is attained through sensitivity, modesty, and smallness. In the original, as you may recall, Hoff had an Idea: that Winnie-the-Pooh could be used to explain Taoism, the ancient Chinese way of balance. If you like marshmallow laced with arsenic, it was worth the wait. The book goes through the other characters - Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore and Pooh - to show the various aspects of humanity that Taoism says get in the way of living in harmony with the Tao.Ten years later, a sequel to the runaway bestseller The Tao of Pooh. In the book Piglet is shown to possess great power - a common interpretation of the word Te, which more commonly means Virtue - not only because he is small, but also because he has a great heart or, to use a Taoist term, Tz'u. Milne Winnie the Pooh books, both for entertainment and because they serve as tools for explaining Taoism. It is written with many embedded stories from the A. In The Te of Piglet, the Piglet character of the Winnie-the-Pooh books explains the Chinese concept of Te, meaning 'power' or 'virtue'. Hoff elucidates the Taoist concept of 'Virtue - of the small' though, he also uses it as an opportunity to elaborate on his introduction to Taoism. The Te of Piglet is a 1992 philosophical non-fiction book written by Benjamin Hoff as a companion to his 1982 work The Tao of Pooh. The book was published by Dutton Books and spent 21 weeks on the Publishers WeeklyBestseller List and 37 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. 1992 'First Printing, September, 1992' stated on copyright page Dutton publishers smaller hardbound with mustard and black boards and gilt lettering on spine very good condition with unmarked pages decorative dust jacket very good.

The te of piglet