![]() It even makes him eat many meals he doesn't like because he constantly claims that Tiggers love eating everything - and finds that they don't. Wise people know their own limitations but foolish people do not and Tigger definitely falls into the latter category. TiggerĪccording to Tigger, "Tiggers can do everything" and Tigger's character is a demonstration of the foolishness of continually trying to do what one cannot do. However, cleverness and wisdom are different things and Rabbit's cleverness demonstrates that over time, cleverness can become just a series of observations and involves no real enlightenment or insight at all. He likes to be thought clever and believes he is happy in his cleverness. Rabbit likes knowledge so that he can be clever. Eeyore' outlook on life obviously prevents spontaneous enjoyment and therefore prevents all of the knowledge that can come from spontaneity and happiness. EeyoreĮeyore is a pessimistic sort of fellow and unlike Owl whose knowledge is for the sake of having knowledge, Eeyore's knowledge is used for the sake of complaining about something. However, his knowledge, which is the knowledge of the scholarly, can seem a bit removed from the rest of us because it is not learned from experiences, and in Taoism knowledge gained from experience is actually more meaningful. He is not concerned with enlightening others. He doesn't like to share this knowledge widely but likes to keep it within a very small circle. He loves to have knowledge for knowledge's sake and so that he appears wise to everyone else. He simply does what he feels like doing at the time, and it usually turns out just the way it is meant to. Pooh has no "side" to him and is never looking for an angle or a reason to be pessimistic. Pooh is the poster bear for the childlike, simple secret of Tao - life is supposed to be fun and spontaneous, and when it is lived in this way life tends to just turn out right. In short he has no qualities that take away his absolute simplicity. ![]() Pooh has no arrogance, hidden depths or emotional complexities. Pooh is the epitome of the Uncarved Block. Pooh is a "bear of very little brain" which at first would seem to preclude his being much of a Taoist philosopher however, one of the principle tenets of Taoism P'u, otherwise known as the Uncarved Block, which suggests that things in their uncarved state are powerful in their own simplicity. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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