While Eeyore frets...
and Tigger bounces...
and Owl pontificates
.... Pooh just is.
The current edition of the Tao of Pooh is sold packaged together with The Te of Piglet, which is Benjamin Hoff's follow up to the successful first book. I thought the idea of using characters familiar from most Westerners childhood to explain Eastern philosophy was excellent and The Tao of Pooh is quite an enjoyable (and possibly enlightening) read. However, The Te of Piglet at times leaves off entirely the world of Pooh-bear and launches into a critique of Western society.
These criticisms of the Western way of doing things may be valid (though that's quite subjective), but I personally felt they were out of place in the book. I suspect that Hoff used the pretext of expanding on the concept of explaining Eastern thought through Pooh to increase exposure to his political views. The bundling together of the two books (I doubt The Te of Piglet would have been as popular on its own) seems to further my suspicion.
The Tao of Pooh is worth a read, and like Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence is a good introduction to pop-Eastern Philosophy.