The Tao of Pooh

Winnie the Pooh was probably my favorite cartoon as a kid. It turns out he has quite a bit to teach us. He is the embodiment of what it means to be in flow with the Tao.
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[@EwingAmaterasu]

Life is not meant to be understood completely, it is not just about a goal in the future, it is about each moment as a universe in itself. Life is an experiencia that starts at birth and ends at death, each moment of consciousness is meant to be experienced in itself. Life is the universe because we know nothing else and anything else is indifferent. Life is the Tao, because life is like a road, and to be conscious of each moment is to follow the way.

[@b3blueblue]

Ricard de Virgo Well said and so on-point. Some folks have missed the whole point of the book.

[@linnh940]

Exactly

[@j-fleduc9209]

@Nei Gong Adept How do you know?

[@j-fleduc9209]

@Nei Gong Adept Again, how do you know?

[@BreathLife777]

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. HE DRANK YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE GHE GOSPEL OR YOU WILL GO TO HELL.

[@adityaapte3845]

I read the book and didn’t like it. Probably because I didn’t understand it. I watched this. Read the book again. And loved it! Thank you!

[@linnh940]

I didn't understand it either! That's why i came here to REALLY understand.

[@tanithmckanna7615]

HaHaHaHaHa seriously, i loved the 'i didn' like it' comment fockn funny

[@chefhoward]

I loved this book when I first read it nearly 30 years ago. This video is a great introduction of this book to folks who may not have had opportunity to read it yet!

[@ThoughtMonkeyhq]

It's a great book :)

[@b3blueblue]

Howard Lanham Indeed.

[@stevenglansburg856]

Tao is the way, no matter what happens. Detach yourself from yourself, because we are everything and the moment is Tao. We can explain, but can we mutually experience. If not, then don’t force it.

[@BreathLife777]

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. HE DRANK YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE GHE GOSPEL OR YOU WILL GO TO HELL.

[@narellad]

2:46 That is so true, and it is highly relevant given our modern context, where most people don't have time, and are constantly in a rush. How can an average person that works at least 8hs a day be able to read complex books at the end of the day, and not tempt him/herself to sit on the couch and absorb whatever the TV says? It's difficult to concentrate with the flickering lights of black mirrors, and even more difficult to understand the (generally) unnecessary complex vocabulary that most intellectuals use when you're really tired.

[@MoveOnUpMusicEvan]

Brilliant book, saw this video a few months ago, went out and got it, finally got to read it. It’s a different outtake on things which is definitely very valuable to read, regardless of who you are.

[@MODELBODYINTL]

This is some amazing wisdom right here...and very well explained!

[@andreabell1361]

unfortunately the background music spoils an otherwise excellent video

[@satnamo]

A good speaker does not slip

[@samlzahran59]

I appreciate you attaching the script to the video. It makes it easier to follow the video ,especially to non English speakers like me. Thanks.

[@GrowthMindsetChannel]

Your videos keep getting better and better. This one is my favourite for sure but then again I'm biased because Winnie The Pooh was one of my favourites as a kid too! Keep up the good work my man

[@JessBess]

the voice inside us is intuition

[@net81j]

The core of Ancient China is only the provinces around the East end of Yellow River. The map you are showing at the start of the show even included Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, XinJiang, and Tibet, which are all not part of Ancient China. Those Autonomous regions are not incorporated into Chinese Empire until later dynasties.

[@ThoughtMonkeyhq]

True. But the maps of ancient china kind of suck. :(

[@Hermit_mouse]

Well said, Rabbit.

[@loftyjoy]

I always knew Winnie the Pooh was a special show.

[@hikewithmike4673]

Eeyore is the real sage!!!...love eeyore...great video by the way!

[@Greanestbean]

Pooh可Pooh非常Pooh

[@tomato1040]

Unlike poetry, too many words can confuse😂the mind🧠, clever😎or not, as the True Soul expreses IT🗣️🎺🎶 as "One's Self" with light❤️ hearted🎯brevity, the😇 soul of wit"😅!

[@lomaxlomax5915]

This is spook helpful with my religion class. Thanks a lot.

[@roryharper9889]

...I should be sleeping

[@gregm7222]

What a great video. Thank you, thank you. And I thought the book was good too. Both book and video have my approval. I truly appreciate a great synopsis of any great book.

[@beshugo8177]

This philosophy is beautiful.

[@BreathLife777]

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. HE DRANK YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE GHE GOSPEL OR YOU WILL GO TO HELL.

[@joeyvicente2083]

Andito lang talaga ko para sa module ih

[@saul94923]

Nice video dude

[@ThoughtMonkeyhq]

Thanks!

[@niloljk7884]

Hmmmm Very relevant but ironic 😂😌🙏🏼

[@christineabercrombie7316]

i havent read this, but maybe next to get.

[@macuna1995]

This was really nice.

[@jamesrobbins5347]

No intellectuals are confined by equitable values of those searching for a sense of superiority without any practical worth

[@tudort8871]

Love u Pooh

[@ShaneGregoire]

Good video dude

[@anaguevarapedo2697]

This is awesome! Thank you!!

[@aditidit]

Great video!

[@Formosanana]

well-said. Taoism is great ancient philosophy abandoned in mainland and not popular at all.What the most popular and promoted is Confucianism.

[@abja101]

I love this!

[@skooskipotato3750]

Buddha was from India.

[@LisaCSCO]

Buddha is connected to many.

[@gonderage]

why not both wisdom and intellect

[@MMfish_]

Gonedridge 🤔

[@BreathLife777]

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. HE DRANK YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE GHE GOSPEL OR YOU WILL GO TO HELL.

[@larsvanderlugt1223]

2:27 inception

[@fabianthegreat10]

Read I EAT TOMATOES's books if you like Taoism.

[@treebrain]

Manipulation is in the eye if the beholder.

[@linnh940]

I have the book!

[@bunnybabybevytv6434]

What about the busy bac son?

[@adrianthomas1473]

The background music was not that helpful. The whole video did not make me relaxed. You spoke very quickly. However a good message about a good book.

[@mickyickysticky4730]

Haha you said poo

[@WonderWhy66]

👏👏👏

[@avni8277]

Dude how is Buddha an ancient Chinese philosopher? Gautam Buddha and Buddhism very much have Indian roots.

[@user-dj8gt6ik7c]

Poo bears life sounds boring.

[@johngouskos98]

Hi ziyad

[@johngouskos98]

234

[@siqizhang]

Can the Buddha be count as Chinese? I can hardly think so.

[@Balaclavaballistics]

Hotei

[@AR-cf9di]

No but it did spread to China and many cultural producers, taste makers (like emperors and aristocrats) embodied the religion

[@LiaAwesomeness]

ahhhhhhh taoism is very interesting but i sure do disagree with almost everything it vouches for

[@TheToledoTrumpton]

I read the Tao of Pooh and I was not really impressed with it. To understand Pooh you really have to understand Britain and the class war between the wars. You see it in Lord of the Rings with the Hobbits as well, a bit later. The Aristocrats and the educated had failed the working classes and the working classes had died by the thousands and hundreds of thousands in the Great War. They were to die again in WW2 as well. And the suffragette movement disappeared in disgrace, because women in general had failed working class men as well, with the white feather campaign being prominent among other acts that didn't resonate well. There was a huge upsurge of sympathy and pride in the common British men of the Empire, and the way they had risen to the challenge despite their mistreatment. They may not be educated, but they were loyal, brave, generous, kind, hard-working, content with simple pleasures and possessed down to earth common sense. 20 years before they had been coarse, lazy, uncouth, rowdy, uneducated dirty and criminal and were being deported by the thousand. Pooh was an effort to instill these (now popular) values in male children of the middle and upper-classes in a loveable character. The other characters just allowed him to show his goodness. I don't study Taoism, but I think that Pooh would find any parallel with Taoism a little pretentious and far too intellectual for his tastes. Not for the likes of him. Even calling Pooh wise would not be right. Just good solid common sense and a good heart.

[@alexsanchezj.5575]

TheToledoTrumpton thank u for your input

[@rhino5100]

I understood everything you said except the part about the "White Feather Movement" (giving a white feather to men who didn't go to war as an expression of their cowardice) being attributed to the Suffragette Movement (the campaign to win the vote for women). I am not aware that the Suffragettes are in any way responsible for the White Feather Movement, which was in fact ultimately successful and didn't "disappear in disgrace". Otherwise, your comment is interesting and makes some sense.

[@TheToledoTrumpton]

@@rhino5100 www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/11/suffragettes-pinned-a-white-feather-as-a-symbol-of-cowardice-onto-men-not-serving-in-wwi-2/ www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/white-feather-girls-womens-militarism-in-uk/ beinghumanfestival.org/first-of-the-feathers-soldiers-and-suffragettes/ Some reading for you - I didn't make it up.

[@rhino5100]

@@TheToledoTrumpton That's really interesting! I'd never heard of that before. I read all 3 articles. The first article suggests that Suffragettes were in support of the White Feather Movement, but then fails to name any organization or individuals who were Suffragettes that did so. In fact, the example given is the family of a man (his wife and daughters) who give him a white feather - without identifying any of them as connected with the Suffragette movement. "Two years after he failed in his attempt to join the army, the man was going home from work to his wife and three daughters when a woman handed him a white feather." That article fails to present any evidence of the connection. Not that it can't be true. Just that the article fails to make it. The second article is better. That article states that "The suffrage movement was split by the Great War.", and goes on to say that there were millitant suffragettes (naming organizational names) and pacifist suffraggetts, and that the militant ones were also proponents off the white feather movement. That article gives specific examples. From that article, it appears that there were Suffragettes who were into the white feather humiliation of men who did not or could not enlist and there were Suffragettes who did not. There were quite a few different suffragette organizations at the time. That makes sense. The two movements co-existed and there were people on the spectrum of belief were into one and not the other and some who were champions of both. The last article is about a play whose protagonist is a young woman who is part of both the white feather movement and the Suffragette movement. I appreciate your posting those articles. I definitely learned something today!

[@TheToledoTrumpton]

@@rhino5100 With men's stock so low at the moment, it is rather strange to think of the time of the two world wars as better times for men!

[@Polyglot_English]

Ну хоть кто-то

[@sithisrants4154]

This entire religion seems kind of like a convoluted "ignorance is bliss" take. A bit too anti-intellectual for my taste but at least it's not one of those religions with a rigid set of rules and guidelines based on one or more invisible and intangible gods.

[@Wi11i4mJM]

Buddha was Indian. Good video though

[@fleeb2675]

4th

[@Itz_KLONOPIN]

Lao-tse is pronounced (lao-tsuh) just sayin

[@BreathLife777]

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. HE DRANK YOUR HELL ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE GHE GOSPEL OR YOU WILL GO TO HELL.

[@Jtheplayer]

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[@lanebyrum8151]

I was enjoying the video when all of a sudden you threw up a picture of George W. Bush receiving the news of 9/11. I'm not sure on why you did that, but if it was to take a jab at that President - it kind of went against everything else you were speaking about. That's frustrating. You were doing so well.

[@christineabercrombie7316]

i heard that imagination is more important er than knowledge once, but i think a good balance would be good. or else youre just an imaginative idiot. lol

[@Jtheplayer]

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[@fabianthegreat10]

Jtheplayer -to trip on a banana.