In The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff uses the characters from Winnie the Pooh to explain the fundamentals of Taoism. By observing the actions of Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Tigger, and Pooh, he decides that the action of the character Pooh best describes Taoism. The most important principle of Taoism is the Uncarved Block. Hoff uses Pooh to best explain the Uncarved Block. The principle of the Uncarved Block is that things in their original …showed first 75 words of 1339 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1339 total…way to describe Taoism. It is such a complicated religion and he explained it so well by just being simple. I like how he did not read to far into it and he did not try to explain things that just simply did not need to be explained to understand Taoism. In a sense I guess you could say that his book is also an example of Taoism, it is simple and to the point.