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Title: Not What You May Be Expecting
Review: You would think a book about motorcycle maintenance and zen would be a very down to earth kind of read but a huge majority of the book is spent on philosophic meanderings and metaphysical mysticism. As many people have said the ideas in this book aren't exactly new these days but that's not the author's fault since he wrote it over 30 years ago. The problem is that he's taken very simple concepts and made them ridiculously complex.In contrast to this book, pick up something by the Dalai Lama about buddhism. I find it very ironic that while the spiritual leader of Tibet can explain a concept so simply, some guy on a motorcycle wants to tell me about how a dead greek guy's ideas relate to an undefined term called 'quality' that comes before everything else.It's just disappointing to me because I was hoping to hear a lot more about motorcycles and how they relate to life and zen but he completely forgets about the bike about a third of the way into the book.
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