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SUMMARY Lauren Lee
The Pooh Way starts by Hoff's introduction to Wu Wei, which means "without doing, causing, or making", which also means "without meddlesome, combative, or egotistical effort." Hoff continues to mention how in order to accomplish Wu Wei, you need to focus mainly on how people should be effortless like Pooh. In order to reach the level of Wu Wei, one must work with the natural laws surrounding around them, which eventually leads us back to recognizing one's own Inner Nature. Hoff explains the translation of Wei Wu Wei in English, which is 'Do Without Doing', which leads to the idea of getting things done naturally, without doing much of anything.

For example, Hoff brings up a story, when Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, and Roo were all playing Poohsticks, they coincidentally find Eeyore floating on the surface of the river. They all ask Eeyore what he is doing, and he tells them that he is waiting for someone to save him. This makes Pooh come up with a plan to throw stones at the river, so that the waves the stones create can bring Eeyore back to shore. So Pooh brings a giant stone, but Pooh is too afraid that the stone that he throws might hit Eeyore and hurt him. After much hesitation, with the help of Rabbit, Pooh manages to throw the stone down at the river. However, the rock looks like it hit Eeyore and everyone thought Eeyore drowned. However, soon, Eeyore drifted back to the shore and Pooh saves the day once again. Just like this, Hoff is tr     ying to say that you can get things done by nature or naturally without struggling and stressing over an issue.

Hoff gives another examples about Eeyore's birthday party and how it relates to Pooh getting things done through nature's order. On Eeyore's birthday, Pooh decided to give Eeyore a jar of honey and piglet chooses to give Eeyore a balloon as a birthday gift. However, while Pooh is on his way to the birthday party, eh forgets about Eeyore and eats up all the honey inside the jar. After much consideration, Pooh visits Owl and writes "A Happy Birthday" on the jar. He decides to give that jar with the 'Happy Birthday' sign on it, to Eeyore as his present. While that all happened to Pooh, Piglet also bumps into a problem. Piglet was running as fast as he could to Eeyore's birthday party. He wanted to get there before anybody else, but he was running too quickly that he fell and he popped the balloon. Piglet was all depressed by the time he arrived at the party. When he got there, he saw Pooh giving Eeyore a "Useful Pot" to Eeyore. After watching Pooh, he decided      to give Eeyore something that he could put inside the "Useful Pot", so he gives him the small piece of damp rag to Eeyore and tells him that he brought something that could be placed inside the "Useful Pot". Just like this, Pooh always figures out things and works every situation out no matter what happens. Reaching Wu Wei will lead to everything working out the right way through nature's order or possibly through Inner Nature.   <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 25, 152); font-size: 30%;"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 25, 152);">  <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">