Top 10 Buddhist and Chinese Zen Quotes

Chinese Zen, or Chan as it is called in China, is all about the attainment of enlightenment the personal expression of direct insight in the Buddhist teachings. View this selection of quotes and from the philosophies of Zen and Buddhism. And let me know if you know other quotes of Buddhism by leaving a comment below.

1. Everything is unreal.  一切皆为虚幻。

2. Do not speak unless you can improve the silence. 不可说， 说即是错。

3. Form itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is form. 色即是空，空即是色。

4. Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem. 人生在世，如身处荆棘之中！心不动，人不妄动，不动则不伤。

5. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. 一花一世界，一佛一如来。

6. It is the 500 times of looking back in the preexistence that we get the chance of passing by each other in this life. 前生500次的回眸才换得今生的一次擦肩而过。

7. Great sadness is tearless, supreme enlightenment is wordless, loud laughter is silent. 大悲无泪，大悟无言，大笑无声。

8. A butcher becomes a Buddha the moment he drops his cleaver. 放下屠刀，立地成佛。

9. Bodhi originally has no tree; The mirror (-like mind) has no stand. Buddha-nature (emptiness/oneness) is always clean and pure; Where is there room for dust (to alight)?
菩提本无树，明镜亦非台，本来无一物，何处惹尘埃。

10. If a martyr should be sacrificed for this, why not me? 我不入地狱，谁入地狱。