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=Summary of "The Pooh Way" =

In this chapter, Hoff describes what //Wu Wei// is, by using Pooh’s actions (//the Pooh Way//) as the metaphor. First, he explains that //Wu Wei// is about “without doing anything”, but to leave it as it is, allowing it to operate itself “naturally” through the principle of the natural law. Basically, it means, “Do without doing” – let things happen by themselves naturally.

The story of Eeyore’s birthday party gives an example to support this idea. In this story, Pooh and Piglet both decide to get presents for Eeyore; Pooh gets one of his honey jars, and Piglet gets his balloon for Eeyore. Then, along the way, Pooh unconsciously eats most of the honey in the jar, for he was hungry. Although he realized in sometime, that what he just ate was Eeyore’s present, Pooh still does not get depressed, since he resolved the problem by deciding to give the empty jar instead, with a “happy birthday” writing on it. Meanwhile, for Piglet, his balloon ended up getting popped up when he arrived to the place where Eeyore was. Thus, it ended up happening where Piglet’s popped balloon was put inside the “useful” empty jar of Pooh’s.

This story shows that although there were problems during the process of handing over Eeyore’s presents, things naturally worked out perfectly fine without even realizing it. Here, both Pooh and Piglet did not “try anything hard” to makes this result to happen. Simply, they did not do anything. They just leaned back, and let the problem to be solved in a natural way, and it really did! This is what natural order, and the //Wu Wei// are all about.