This humble little video is shot from the inside of a car and shows motorcycles passing by the traffic … which moves very, very slowly. This is one of the reasons I took a moto taxi last year in Paris.
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Daily Ride – Through Paris on a Yamaha TDR 125
Nice footage, nice music. Enjoy this 2:08 minutes of sightseeing
Daily Ride – Motos go to brunch
Daily Ride – Balade à moto sur Paris
Daily Ride – Trans Moto Cub – Moto Taxi Bordeaux
Daily Ride – down the road…
Daily Ride – 56 businessmen on moto taxis in Paris
It’s one way to get to your meetings!
Daily Ride – Motorcycle in Paris
Let’s take ‘er out for a spin, shall we?
Two or three old women came and asked…
Two or three old women came and asked him [Suzuki Shosan] about the essence of Buddhism.
The Master said: “I do not know anything that I can teach you.”
After a while he said suddenly: “You will die, you will die. Never forget the fact of dying…”
From : Death Was His Koan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shosan By Winston L. King (P.285)
It looks so harmless on a web page
… and in all honesty, that’s pretty much how I felt, one fine spring afternoon, on the back of a motorcycle flying down a highway near Paris.
What happened that day crystallized a whole lot that I’d observed about myself, doing business with the French, and the practical uses of Zen.
And the book is nearing completion . . . ready in early 2015. So stay tuned.
Zen and the Art of Moto Taxi Survival 