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What does this mean? How does it come into play in The Tao of Pooh with regard to scholars?
People of the world tend to make things more difficult and complicated. Sometimes, they would mess up several things that are actually very easy. These days, some people seem to feel nervous or worried as things are working out for them so easily since they’re used to solving chaotic problems through difficult progresses. By not having such trust in straightforward and easy words that are able to put into behaviors right away, it is quite easily determined that people are doubtful at most times. The Tao of Pooh emphasizes emptiness in mind and greed, which is completely different from those behaviors of people. The Tao of Pooh seems that it is trying to convert people of ideas that one should accept something just as it is, through showing examples of unaccepted behaviors, using the characters from Winnie the Pooh.

2) Read the poem on page 30. What does Pooh seem to think about scholars? How does that relate to the Taoist view of knowledge?
It seems that Pooh tries to show Confucianist’s state of mind through this poem. The poem show a bit of sarcasm towards Confucianist ideas, which always question things and try to find answer to those questions through analysis and reasoning. For Taoists, knowledge or intelligence does not mean much for human beings, unlike Confucians who emphasized meaning of life and deep thoughts about life.