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[Smurfette]

So I bought a bracelet at one of the temples of wooden skulls. Does anyone know what they represent or have a website I could read about them??

[Troll_Bait]

Here's a condensed and simplified version of the story.

A Korean Buddhist monk was travelling to China to study Buddhism further under Chinese masters.

One night, he went into a cave for shelter. He was very thirsty and, scrabbling in the dark, he found a vessel full of water. He drank it and it was delicious. His thirst sated, he went to sleep.

Upon waking up the next morning, he discovered that the vessel was a human skull, and that it was full of rank water.

Horrified and disgusted, he almost threw up.

It was then that he discovered two things:

1. All reality is in the mind.

2. He didn't need to go study in China.

And with that, he turned around and returned to Korea, whereupon he became a famous Zen (Seon) master.

[Woland]

And at (Zen) temples in Korea you will often see panels painted to represent this story painted on the outer walls of buildings.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Death is life, life is death. There is no end, no beginning. Just existence which is both existing and not-existing, for each action is a death and each death the beginning of another life.