The Tao of Pooh "Cottleston Pie"--"Bisy Backson" Task
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1. Why is Tigger the perfect character to explain the quote, "The wise know their limitations; the foolish do
not"? Explain using an example from Cottleston Pie.
Tiger does not know his limitations therefore he is foolish.
2. What is Cottleston Pie? What does it mean?
Co teston Pie means, "I don't know."
3. What is a Heffalump? Why couldn't Piglet and Pooh catch one?
A Heffalump represents trying to understand the user standable. They couldn't catch one
because
4. Explain the "Way of Self-Reliance." Paph wants to trap the Heffalump with honey Since thats what he l
The hoy of Self-Reliance means following your Inner nature and rhythm of life.
5. According to Taoism, what is the best way to get rid of a negative trait?
The best way to get rid of a negathe trait is just let it go and accept it as realit
6. Use the allegory of the Ugly Duckling or the allegory of the Bouncy Tigger to explain the special thing
inside.
7. What is Wu Wei? Explain it in your own words.
8. How does the writings of Chuang-tse with the allegory of the old man and the waterfall represent Wu
Wei?
9. What does the Tao Te Ching's 37th chapter teach us with the quote, "Tao does not do, but nothing is not
done"?
10. What is the purpose of the allegory of Small? How does it relay the idea of the Pooh Way?
11. Explain how Piglet's birthday balloon and Pooh's birthday pot scenarios worked out at the highest level
of Wu Wei.
12. Explain T'ai Chi Ch'uan using the metaphor of the cork floating in water.
13. What could the man who didn't like seeing his footprints or his shadow have done to escape death?
14. Finish this quote from The Tao of Pooh. "The Bisy Backson is almost desperately
evidence do you have in the story to support how you finished the quote?
"What
15. Why does the Bisy Backson's way of life that keeps saying, "Around the next corner, above the next
step," work against Taoism?
16. Who were the original Bisy Backsons in this part of the world? How did they survive?
17. Trace the ancestry of the Bisy Backson from the Miserable Puritan.
18. Explain the analogy of the Hamburger Stand as it relates to the Bisy Backson and Taoism.
19. Summarize the fictional story of the Youthful Immortal including his role in Taoism. Cite the example of
Li Chung Yun, if it helps you.
20. Connect the "Enjoyment of the process" to "the everyday significance of the word Tao, the Way."
21. What is the best way to not be a Bisy Backson? Or what is the antidote?