Tao of Pooh

Taoism is a thought culture that explicates the physical relation our mind, body, and spirit hold to the physical world. In the book, the Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff shows how Taoist Winnie the Pooh is. One of the metaphors he explicates is that of a boulder in a river to the peace of mind and conscious that comes as we become one with the problems challenges around us.
He writes of a large boulder that falls in the river. The water when it encounters the boulder is too weak to break the outside shell, let alone the core of the rock. Instead of the water trying to go through the rock, it flows around the rock.
When Winnie the Pooh encounters problems he doesn't go head on with them, he always himself to solve them by going with the flow so to speak. None of us are powerful or strong enough to break through boulders in our lives, but we can become aware enough to flow through and around our problems, turning our problems into opportunities of new and exciting growth and change. Remember Winnie the Pooh next time you have a major challenge in your life and see it as a way to discover a new path and a new opportunity.