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 Summary of The Pooh Way sarah cho __**Introduction:**__ The story starts with introducing the idea of Wu Wei, and making Pooh explain it in his own words, because it made it much easier for the others to understand it. Pooh made the examples into experiences each of the characters had. At first, Eeyore was in the river not moving and staying still. When Pooh asks what he is doing, he says that he is waiting for someone to save him out of the water. At first, there is a story of Chung-Tse, where a man was in the water, and doing nothing, but waiting for someone to get him out of the water. He is saying that less struggle helps him reach goals of surviving. Then Pooh get's an idea of how to save Eeyore, that was to throw a rock beside Eeyore, so the waves would push him to shore. Then, when it's Eeyore's birthday, the presents that Pooh and Piglet gives to him seems fairly unreasonable and unexplainable, but he takes them seriously and uses it in a good way.



**__Premise:__** This chapter's basic premise as I read through the book, seemed that much of the human activity goes against nature. Therefore, creating behaviors and life patterns that make the mind difficult and tired. Also, the idea of Wu Wei is described as an idea of efficient living that stems from "an inner sensitivity to the natural rhythm of things" (68). Therefore, it's basically saying that one can do something without doing anything. With this, it strongly shows how if a person depends on nature, everything will be done easily and will be able to succeed.

//"Short-circulating natural laws" (68). "Try too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy" (77).//

Cleverness doesn't seem to be everything that one person can depend on. Though in life, cleverness receives all the credit in whatever situation, however, what humans depend on in real situation isn't the clever mind, but the inner nature. Wu Wei, says "Do without Doing," which is shown all over this chapter's story.

__** Examples of the characters: **__ 1. Eeyore falls into the stream, just like the man described by Chung-Tse. This is comparing the cleverness and natural way, which is the basic argument of this entire book, and Taoism. This shows that it isn't using cleverness because the fact that it's using nature as a tool to save him, and also they are trying harder to find out the way to save him, but actually thinking hard wouldn't help and lead into any conclusion. 2. When Tigger was trying to open the pickle jar, because he tried too hard, it slipped out of his hand and finally crashed the jar. This lead the others not able to even eat nor see the jar anymore. 3. As everyone was trying find Small, everyone was thinking logically and thinking deeply, except for Pooh. He was just wandering around, but fell into a pit. Then he found something small climbing on his back. That was the answer, something small, which was climbing Pooh's back was the answer. The main idea of this example is showing the comparison with making things work and letting them work. 4. When it was Eeyore's birthday, Pooh bought him a honey jar, but accidentally ate them all before even giving it to him. Pooh decided to give the empty jar, and explained that he could put anything into it. Then, Piglet came holding a balloon, but popped it by accident. He apoligized to Eeyore, but he thanked him, because now he was able to put something into the jar.

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