When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe … - Shunryu Suzuki

Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.

Hace medio siglo, sin ayuda alguna, Daisetz Suzuki trajo el Zen a Occidente, dando con ello un paso que ha sido comparado, por su importancia histórica, con las traducciones al latín de las obras de Aristóteles en el siglo XIII, y de las de Platón en el XV.

"When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world.
When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world.
The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless.
We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually,
There is just one whole world."

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.