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In this passage from his chapter “The Tao of Who?,” Hoff introduces the principle of the Uncarved Block, or P’u in Chinese. Conveniently, P’u sounds just like “Pooh,” so it’s a natural starting place to explain Taoism. P’u means “wood not cut,” or a “tree in a thicket.” In other words, it refers to a tree in its simplest natural state, in the forest where it belongs—people haven’t taken it out to use it for their own purposes. Similarly, a block of wood that hasn’t been carved is still in its natural state. This is the inner meaning of…