Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki says a lot about emptying the mind. So everyone's mind "includes everthing within itself", which is "rich and sufficient within itself". Keep this mind, but empty it and try to keep it open to everything, not closed off. This, he says is why the beginners have many possibilities, and the experts have few.
I did like his analogy about breathing. Our mind needs to follow our breathing. Although when we are breathing in, we are breathing into our "inner world" and when we breath out we are breathing into the "outer world", both of which are limitless, and are considered one whole world. They are considered one whole world since our body and the outer world are one, they both rely on the other, and one can't live without the other. This breathing air passes through a swinging door. And when your "mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no 'I', no world, no mind or body; just a swinging door." I love that! After all this focusing on the breathing we need to stop focusing until there is nothing left to focus on...just the swinging door or the effects of your breathing, not the breathing itself.