the tao of pooh

P: Choose a passage from the book you particularly like and explain why.

R: For this particular prompt I chose an entire chapter that explains the Taoist principle called the Wui wei. In this chapter multiple examples are given of instances when Pooh did not go out of his way to figure or plan a situation out, and ended up saving the day. This just seems to work for me in small ways in real life. Those days when you are sitting there stressing over how to figure out exactly how to make something work, how to organize a schedule, how to make everyone happy, it's always the person who is trying to calm everyone down, the person who is sitting back and looking at the situation rather than stressing over it, always manages to piece the puzzle together with out half the effort the one stressing managed. This is one of those things again I find myself guilty of; however, this is something about my life that I should easily be able to change and I, every once in a while, do manage to achieve this. This generally isn't the case this year though, as I've managed to dig myself into a huge hole of stress by piling on to many obligations. A beautiful example that this chapter includes is a saying by an old Western philosopher, "I think, therefore I am confused." I feel like this is the story of my life and most likely a lot of other people too. The more we think about things and go against the "Wui Wei" the situation becomes less and less likely to work itself out on it's own. As we input our many ideas, and rules, and attempt to make things work, we just add more and more variables to the situation leaving one big tangled know of stress.