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    【躋身組織的前30%關鍵人才】
     
      從小就喜歡深思的杜書伍,腦子裡無時無刻不在轉動思考,成為企業家之後,這更成為他帶領團隊向前走的管理方式。「我認為領導就是要『觀念領導』,」杜書伍說。爲此,2000年之後,他乾脆當起「老師」,每天早上八點到九點召集幹部「上課」。隨著聯強國際規模不斷擴張,杜書伍再進一步把上課內容寫成文章,讓全體員工都能了解他的思維。
     
      大老闆為文創作,想必離不開嚴肅與教條的成分吧?一點也不。這系列後來以「聯強EMBA」為名,隨電子報發送的短文,因為談的是工作中人人會碰到的課題,角度深入淺出,以小窺大,不僅內部幹部受用,連收到的外界客戶、經銷商、合作夥伴都深覺有收穫,無形中爲杜書伍養出一批忠實閱讀的「粉絲」。
     
      大方分享自己的心得,杜書伍笑著說,希望透過文字帶來影響,說不定就此改變某個人的職涯,或讓某家企業從此降低基層運作的成本。「公開這些是帶點理想性,」他說。
     
    問:你對自己的職涯一直都有清楚的想法,是不是少年養成的過程帶給你一些影響?
     
    答:我覺得有兩個因素,第一,是種穩定的力量。我的家庭教育一直教我要踏實,假如沒有這個,人就會浮躁,風一吹就會搖來搖去。第二,我成長的年代,是台灣非常期望走向富裕的年代,對自己有希望成功的強烈企圖心。有了這種企圖心,就會去動腦,想要突破。但有了先前穩定的力量搭配,我不會躁進,或一看到旁邊的機會,就方向搖擺。
     
    問:父母親怎麼教育你這種態度?有特別的方式嗎?
     
    答:這些認知有的是來自父母正面的言教,但也有來自負面的;好的可以學,壞的記取教訓。像我母親是正面教材,我父親的中年危機,則算是負面教材,他本來教書教得很好,收入也很高,但後來他想當校長,就從教育界退休,參加別人的辦學,最後卻沒有成功。這件事對我的影響是,當我要做重大決定時,我會很審慎,會陷入長考。多思考,就會把範疇拉大,把考慮的時間拉長。長考也是另一種穩定的力量。
     
    問:你的職涯中,哪些是你需要長考的時刻?
     
    答:我出來工作大概快四年時,有人用雙倍的薪水來挖角。我那時候負責英特爾的微處理器的推廣,他做電子打卡鐘,當時我的薪水兩萬出頭一點,他用五萬挖我,那時候,這筆錢很大很大。因為他的產品要外銷,他還對我說:「我就給你五十萬,你跟我去國外跑。」我想,天底下從來不會有好康的事掉下來,這個人出手這麼大氣,代表他的行事作風不踏實。這筆錢我能拿六個月還是一年?所以最後我就沒有去。
     
      另外一次,是我大四時在補校教高三數學,服完兵役回來後,校長又來找我,要我晚上再去兼課。我約略算一下,去教書至少一個月有四千五,當時我的薪水差不多是七千塊,等於是兼一份差,薪水增加六成,但我還是拒絕了。因為老師領的是鐘點費,薪水雖然不錯,但增幅有限,又不是我的主業。相反的,我專注投入公司的工作,薪水可能會成長很快,所以我拒絕了,決定專注做我的本業。
     
    問:很多人面對機會難以拒絕的理由,是認為它稍縱即逝,你不擔心這一點?
     
    答:沒有實力,機會都不是你的。機會其實隨時都有。我用公車來譬喻,儘早讓自己站上公車站牌,機會來你就上得去。但有時候你站在那裡,機會還沒來,你也要耐心等。
     
      我在學校時就經常思考自己的未來,我知道我學的是Computer Science(微電子),但我希望未來走管理職、業務職,所以大學時代除了本科之外,我還去修了很多管理課程,為未來作準備。
     
      進入職場後,第一個職務是擔任研發工程師,原本我為自己設定花兩年時間熟練技術實務,之後再轉調業務,但我做了九個月,就被公司要求轉調業務,因為覺得我在技術的磨鍊還不夠,所以當時陷入另一個長考。不過,一方面是配合公司需要,另方面,我想到只要肯花時間,做業務時還是可兼顧研究產品、累積技術含量,這樣不也更會賣。所以我轉換職務時,白天跑業務,晚上K書作研發,兩個兼具。這段過程也讓我思考,怎樣讓兩件衝突的事情協調,能夠一魚雙吃。
     
    問:像個人生活,娛樂這些面向,都不在你的考量內?
     
    答:(笑)我出社會前面十年,只看過一、兩部電影。
     
    問:你從什麼階段開始真正讓自己從「部屬」的思維,提升到「管理者」的思維?
     
    答:在學校時,我就常思考自己的未來出路,因為不是狹隘地讀書,想的時間也比較長遠,所以習慣以比較高的高度看事情。從學校建立這樣的習慣後,這一輩子,我都是拉高高度來看事情。第二,我念了管理,自然而然就有管理的背景,讓我後來在做主管的過程中很自然,沒有任何門檻。
     
    問:在管理端經常要面對人的問題,你都沒有摸索或挫折的過程?
     
    答:(大笑)多了。以我的職涯來說,可以分成幾個階段。我一九七六年出來工作,第一階段大概到一九八五年。這個階段都在打基礎摸索。這九年時間,我cover的範疇很多,這段時間的挫折就很多。
     
      打個比方,我認為任何事都應該節儉。我剛開始做sales,感覺常常跑呀跑,沒有結果,卻要花錢,所以我出去都坐公車,管理下屬也是這樣。但另外有個部門出去就直接招計程車,於是部門間,大家就會比較。我就對部屬說,我們今天這樣節省,紅利會比較好。結果呢?並沒有比較好。最後我拿我自己的紅利出來分給大家,結果他們都不收,而且認為我這個主管有guts(膽識)。在這樣的要求下,第二年,我們的紅利的確就比較好。
     
    問:你碰過最大的難題是什麼?
     
    答:最大的挫折就是部屬被挖角。投注心力去帶他們,後來他要離職。或是覺得某位女性同仁很不錯,她卻說:「抱歉,我要回家生小孩。」爲了這個,我還寫了好幾篇文章,談雙薪家庭的重要,甚至上媒體談怎樣料理家事,教太太給先生一律穿白襯衫、買同樣顏色的襪子,垃圾桶一次套好幾個塑膠袋,更換的時候才方便.......減輕女性同仁的負擔。我甚至還教她們如何準備四菜一湯。
     
    問:說到有員工想回家帶小孩,你一路走來,都被強烈的危機意識跟企圖心引導,你認為現代人對工作仍然需要這樣嗎?
     
    答:關鍵在經濟基礎。這次金融危機就回過頭來告訴大家:未來環境的變化是你沒辦法控制的。你有把握目前的經濟條件一生無虞嗎?每個人對經濟安全的定義不一樣,但長遠來看,門檻還是蠻高的。就像誰會想到現在存款利息幾乎等於零?
     
    問:經過金融海嘯,職場發生很大的變動,也顛覆很多人對生涯的想像。你體會最深的一點是什麼?
     
    答:回過頭去看,我很高興我很多想法是對的,這些現象,終究證明我的價值是對的。

      我本來就看金融業是「虛業」,不是「實業」,過度擴張的結果,本來就應該泡沫化。再看很多垮掉的百年老店,很多都是老大不堪,沒有危機意識,長時間下來像是國營事業,怎麼經得起環境變化?
     
      雖然很多人失業,但我認為好的人從來沒失業過。景氣好,人員通常會寬編,企業只淘汰績效最差的3%,但景氣不好時,企業淘汰10%,這才是真正人力精實的編制。所以如果你在這最後的10%中,平常沒事,但是就像人家說:「退潮時,才知道誰沒穿褲子」,碰到考驗,誰沒穿褲子就看得到了。
     
      組織中,70%都是基層員工,30%屬於幹部級;真正屬於中級主管以上,比例可能只有3%。經濟不景氣時企業砍最多的,是基層員工跟不好的幹部;所以你希望自己永遠都很安全的話,就要努力擠進組織的前30%。大家必須有危機意識,也要與對現實有正確的了解,讓自己進入真正安全的範圍;否則在不安全的範圍中,當然會被砍。
     
      不過,整體來看這個世界還是人才不夠的,而且好的人才的價值比過去還要高;如果你是人才,不僅絕對不會失業,還到處搶著要。
     
    問:專業工作者或經理人可以從金融海嘯中學到什麼?
     
    答:要學到未來變化是很大的,絕對不能認為它不變或變化很小。另外,經濟安全與危機意識是必備的。經濟安全還包括能力安全,要讓自己一直跑在前面,不要落在後面。
     
      很多人聽不進去,因為他們根深柢固認為工作是痛苦的,休閒是快樂的。我認為這是絕大的錯誤。你鑽進工作中,那種知識的滿足跟喜悅,完成一件事的成就感,才是真正的快樂。玩就快樂嗎?不見得喔。玩是你要付錢給人家,工作是人家付錢給你,你又很快樂,而且獲得愈多,表現愈好,給我的錢愈多,何樂而不為?
     
    問:你不斷強調思考的重要,你思考時,有特殊的程序嗎?
     
    答:我無時無地不在思考,腦筋不動就渾身不對勁。因為思考是不分場所的,我連走路也在想事情。假如想出東西,那就很高興了。年輕時,我對我的主管,或公司做法,有時不是很認同。但是我心裡會想:「我只有兩年工作經驗,人家是我的三倍,其中必有道理。」我就照做,有時候會問,有時候就持續當作一個議題,隨時找答案,很可能五年以後才找到答案。養成習慣後,現在留在我腦中還有很多懸案(笑)。
     
      我認為領導就是要觀念領導,所以我自己體悟到什麼,我就講給部屬聽。2000年以後,因為幹部太多,我開始正式上課,再把上課內容寫成文章。一個人要觀念正確,才能有效率的工作。金融海嘯發生後,不少企業出狀況,倒是解答我很多懸案。
     
    問:爲什麼?
     
    答:我相信,全世界的事物都是成常態分配,大部份是落在中間,特別好或特別不好的相對少。常態分配跟我們講的中庸之道是契合的。站在穩健的角度,我們只要落在中間就好,不需要在兩邊,因為很outstanding的這邊,畢竟是例外,有時候甚至得靠運氣,所以不要去想這個。就經營企業來講,盡力做就對了,不一定非要第一。為了做第一去冒險,可能會變成第十。我只要持續努力,可以從第三變第二,從第二變第一,不是很穩嗎?想去樹梢摘最漂亮的果子,可能會跌倒,這也是我講的,留得青山在,不怕沒柴燒。
     
    問:不管是穩定或穩健,能不能爲它下個定義?
     
    答:你踏的每一步,把握度都很高。它的風險是你輕易可以承擔的。比方說,我有七成把握,三成會失敗,而且失敗以後不傷筋骨,這樣可以做。
     
      有些事情是你有九成把握,但那10%一旦發生,你承擔不起,這樣不能做。反過來說,這件事情九成會失敗,但承擔得起,就可以做。過去媒體說我很開創、敢突破,表面上看起來我很冒險犯難,其實每一步我都知道企業能不能承擔得起,而且是輕易承擔,不會傷到筋骨。
     
    問:當讀者要吸取你的觀念時,你會建議他們怎麼使用?
     
    答:關於管理的書籍有三類,第一類是教科書,非常理論,都是專有名詞;第二類是管理大師寫的書,很多例子都是國外或大公司的例子,對本地的讀者有距離感;我寫的聯強EMBA文章算第三類,題目都很小,就在每個人的周遭,很貼近職場。所以在自己的工作環境中,它是最接近、最能轉化使用的。這是我當初題目愈寫愈小,愈來愈貼近員工的原因,其實是每個人工作中都會碰到的經驗,只是過去發生時,自己不見得感覺到。因此,要努力思考在工作經驗中相對應的場景,然後去模擬使用看看。那你就會真正把觀念跟實務連結在一起。一方面,這會使你對觀念理解更深入,二方面,它會融入你的腦海,達到內化。這樣,你以後隨手就能應用這些觀念,幫助自己職涯的發展。這是最重要的關鍵。(本文收錄於《打造將才基因》,作者:《Cheers》雜誌總編輯盧智芳)
     
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    「地獄空」攝影集即將在八月中元節前出版,由知名設計師與攝影家黃子欽設計,內附在下二位高徒精美繪製符咒、心經版畫書籤、愣嚴咒牌、尊勝咒語...等,感恩十方大德助印,希望疫情退散,平安喜樂,後記如下:

    野放台灣五十餘年,貪狼獨坐,三方四正殺破狼格局,少年多舛,白手起家,隨展覽雲遊四海,如閒雲野鶴常持各類底片機流連廢墟、山川、宮廟忘返,遂設幻影堂自詡堂主,一日三省「凡所有相皆是虛妄」,常宅於暗房沖片放大通宵、鍾情黑白世界之單純,彩色照片俗世繽紛花俏做作甜美甚至比現實更現實故少拍也。知天命之年有餘,了悟人生一瞬、眨眼即逝,雖非仙人,亦無道骨,初聞離垢地生清淨心,但離華嚴「不動地」尚遠,待修持也。
    2017年盛暑拍畢《巨神連線》,心律不整差點心肌梗塞向閻羅王報到,意識死神隨伺在側,人生苦短,如何了生脫死、盡斷煩惱、無所罣礙、遠離顛倒……總不得解,蒙釋迦摩尼佛開示飆淚三晝夜,聞佛法數載始知自我渺如塵埃,甚感慚愧。閒暇乃參訪名寺古剎,禮敬焚香佛陀菩薩羅漢諸神天仙王爺媽娘,台灣宮廟千奇百怪、宗派錯綜複雜(佛教、道教、一貫道、天主教、基督教、齋教、回教&大同教、儒教鑾堂、天帝教&天德教、慈惠堂&勝安宮、軒轅教、道院、理教、萬國道德會、會靈山……)、神棍橫行(依人不依法、偶像崇拜、斂財、邪淫),因歷史變遷、社會動盪、政治鬥爭、意識形態等因素導致佛道混雜,但地獄造景稀少,後專注拍攝各殿閻王、判官、陰司、獄卒、七爺、八爺乃至一切罪人,各寺造景巧妙、耐人尋味,意境乖張溢於言表,造型扭曲非常人所能塑也,然匠心獨運、自成一格,專研西方藝術數十載方知真誠樸拙最美,絲毫不輸喬托(Giotto di Bondone,1267~1337)乃至米開朗基羅(Michelangelo Di lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 ~ 1564)矣。

    創立於1986年的石門金剛宮風景優美可眺望北濱,雖主祀四面佛,儒釋道眾神尊也不含糊,可過七星橋解厄、繞行五百黝黑羅漢敲鑼印心、跪拜亞洲最大臥佛涅槃像,安太歲自不在話下,甲子太歲爺雙眼長出手掌印象甚深,1994年經閻羅王指示廟公建造一條肚內設極樂世界及陰曹地府之神龍,行走暗黑通道觸動感應機關,只見面容猙獰受刑者呼天搶地喊冤、身邊盡是血肉糢糊殘肢敗屍腦漿塗地,十殿閻羅各司其職、威儀攝人。新北市林口區青嶺湖北文紫祥宮包公廟則以壁面彩塑地獄浮雕獨步全台,粉嫩色彩搭配卡漫風格,尤為造型簡直恐怖到可愛透頂,該廟主祀森羅殿閻羅天子包拯(包青天),陽世冤屈者可至此參拜祭解,求破懸案者眾,逢中元普渡皆以紙紮船渡亡魂至彼岸,全台唯一閻羅天子巨像籌備中,四周環繞墓地,適合修不淨觀也。台灣首尊彰化八卦山大佛旁南天宮(1971)地府則是首座電動地府,規模精小但驚嚇度破表,略顯破敗但五光十色仍蠻凶悍,出自已故台南大道長金登富之作,而電動神明起始可追溯至1960年代北港朝天宮。倒是嘉義水上鄉白人牙膏觀光工廠「戴相府」、「將軍府」設置十殿地府出乎意料之外,乾淨亮麗、ㄧ殿ㄧ間、簡單樸實。由高雄蓮潭龍虎塔龍口入內可見全臺唯一交趾陶地獄牆面,尊尊栩栩如生,續入龍身乃進聞聲救苦白衣觀音大士三十三化身浮雕隧道,造型設色甚為古錐。高雄大岡山超峰寺入口處「西方三聖蓮池海會」(阿彌陀佛、觀世音菩薩、大勢至菩薩巨像)旁設靜態十殿閻羅(1970年代初),雖略為陳舊然韻味猶存,續往上行可抵「證菩提道-釋迦如來應化事迹」雕塑園區,一攬世尊畢生精華。如來年邁時,琉璃國王為報長期被釋迦族輕蔑之傲慢心,世尊雖三次單獨伽跌坐 阻擋大軍進攻之路,但因緣果報無法逆轉,昔日婢女所生王子瞋恨無以復加,還是滅了祖國。自持神通第一目犍連不忍無辜百姓慘遭屠殺,遂以缽盛救度五百族人,最終卻化為血水,佛言神通廣大仍不敵千百劫業力,因緣果報屢試不爽。其母死後墜入餓鬼道飢餓難耐,目犍連遂展神通救渡,但所食尚未入口皆化為赤火,佛陀囑咐農曆七月十五日僧眾解安居自恣日,於盆中設甘露美食供養十方僧眾,因此超度亡母。後世「盂蘭盆法會」乃至「水懺法會」、「瑜珈焰口法會 」皆為消業障、斷塵垢之超渡儀軌,既渡亡魂也自懺悔。

    台南麻豆代天府規模宏大、造型豔麗,不但可遊十八層地獄尚可逛天堂(1979年興建,1983年開放),燈光絢爛、聲響駭人,獨自漫步宛如觀落陰、地獄走一回。先過「心頭山」、入「清心池」、進「陰陽界」、抵「交簿廳」、達「鬼門關」、遊「補經所」、探「枉死城」、行「奈何橋」,至ㄧ殿泰廣王照「孽鏡台」現造惡原形,睹抱柱、火床等小地獄。二殿楚江王開「陰查簿 」判案定奪,觀糞尿泥、餓鬼、舞池、寒冰、膿血、鞭韃、舌犁、劍葉、戟腹拋接、砧截……等小地獄。三殿宋帝王刑罰為倒吊、銅鐵刮臉、挖眼、搗樁、倒烤、吸血、穿肋、抽筋、蛆蛀等小地獄……兼遊「四生(胎、卵、濕、化)回魂府」。四殿五官王掌管腰斬、拔舌、沸湯、刺嘴、剝皮、箭樹、車崩、射眼……等十六小地獄。隨五殿森羅王豋「望鄉臺」回眸親人最終眼後觀擊膝、誅心、刀山、飛刀火石……小地獄。六殿卞城王別稱「大叫喚大地獄」,轄火牛、虎啖、噬腎、鉗嘴含鍼、釘喉、磨摧、砍頭……等小地獄。七殿泰山王為「熱惱大地獄」,窺烙手指、抽腸、頂石蹲身、油釜滾烹、割舌穿腮……等十六小地獄。八殿都市王掌管「大熱惱大地獄」兼火狗、鐵汁、鐵蛇、鋸劈斷肢、釘板、灸脊、鐵丸、磅秤……等小地獄。九殿平等王直轄十八層「阿鼻大地獄」,直透地心、內中陰森、不見五指、滿溢地漿,皆為極犯,另轄紫赤毒蛇鑽孔、夾頂、鐵鴉、針雨、蜂蠍……等小地獄。至十殿輪轉王上「觀生臺」、「轉劫所八司」(查驗司 、稽善司 、考過司 、恩怨司 、壽命司 、支配司、掌劫司 、授生司)後至「孟婆亭」飲「醧忘湯」忘盡前塵往事,依前世功德過金、銀、玉、石、木、竹六種橋樑至「轉輪臺(紫河車)」入六道輪迴轉生投胎。據《十八泥犁經》記載,人過世後七七四十九天為「中陰生」,經閻羅王審判善惡業力判定去留或懲罰百千萬劫,犯五逆重罪則墮入「無間地獄(阿鼻地獄)」永劫不復。地藏王乃幽冥教主,統轄十殿閻羅,逢三曹普渡便在各殿設「講道所」超度尚存善根之鬼魂。

    人類居於五趣(阿修羅、人、傍生、餓鬼、地獄)雜居地五濁惡世之堪忍世界,犯十惡業(殺生、偷盜、邪淫、妄語、兩舌、惡口、綺語、貪慾、嗔恚、愚痴)者必墮三趣惡道。如何出「三界」(欲界、色界、無色界)二十八天?凡人無此意識,別說能破「十二因緣」(無明、行、識、名色、六入、觸、受、愛、取、有、生、老死)還滅門,更別想斷除「四聖諦」(苦、集、滅、道)集地八十一品見惑與八十八使思惑(五利使-身見、邊見、邪見、見取見、戒禁取見、五鈍使-貪、瞋、癡、慢、疑),了悟「五蘊」(色、受、想、行、識)本空、「十二入」(眼、耳、鼻、舌、意、色、聲、香、味、觸、法)空、「十八界」空,破俱生我執與分別我執、法執甚至空執,生十一處「善心所」(信、精進、慚、愧、無貪、無瞋、無痴、輕安、不放逸、行捨、不害),降二十六處「惡心所」(貪、瞋、癡、慢、疑、惡見、忿、恨、覆、惱、嫉、慳、誑、諂、害、憍、無慚、無愧、掉舉、惛沉、不信、懈怠、放逸、失念、散亂、不正知),須知善根斷盡則陷永劫輪迴、無垠轉世之苦。

    地獄可能空滅嗎?若地獄空乏人間多鬼怪,地獄淨空世間何嘗非淨土?若能證空性何處現地獄?

    地獄曠古來便廣泛流傳各部族間,老死生滅為自然運行之基礎、宇宙意識之核心,然今文明昌盛如咱城邦並非慾望消弭之所,惡性所及實無可根除,礙於憲法國家法律社會軍隊企業公司學校家庭團體之層層束縛不亞於十八層,乃遁於壓抑、束己情懷,暗埋心底、日久貪嗔痴慢疑怨噌會疊穢。而六塵未熄,心多妄念,妖魔鬼怪魑魅魍魎孤魂閃靈出沒於荒郊乃至人間,會靈於曠野密林以增性靈乃出世高人修煉之舉,我等凡人擅闖宛如迪士尼般之人造地獄,三魂七魄尚不足以出竅,驚邪恐怖淒厲猙獰倒滿足了自以為是的慚愧,豈不謬哉?

    病毒肆虐年半有餘,全球確診者逼近一億八千萬,枉死者近四百萬,堪比戰爭規模,望眾生發慈悲心、令往生者安息、善待其他物種、平等有情眾生。地獄本空,唯妄念生起一切羨慕嫉妒恨而地獄現前。盡以此書作為世界新冷戰獨裁者、超限戰者、暗網駭客、陰險狡猾冷嘲熱諷落井下石者之良知備忘錄矣。

    姚瑞中寫於2021年端午節

    Postscript

    I have been living recklessly in Taiwan for more than fifty years. According to Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology), Tan Lang is the sole star in my house of Self. This star, which represents xxx, forms an equilateral triangle with that star Qi Sha and Po Jun on the square chart and constitutes a Sha Po Lang pattern. The pattern indicates a kind of turbulence and change, a life of wandering with ups and downs and it tells a lot about my life. After my ill-fated youth, I started from scratch and traveled around the world with exhibitions that I participated. Like a flaneur, I wandered around ruins, nature, and temples with every type of film camera obliviously. Thus, I founded the Hall of Illusion and claimed to be the master of the hall. Several times a day, I pondered a quote from the Diamond Sutra, “Everything with form is unreal.” In addition, I usually stayed in the darkroom developing film and enlarging those negatives overnight. However, I treasured the simplicity of the black and white world. The earthly, gaudy, garish, phony and pleasing qualities within colored photos make the images even more realistic than the real world. It is not my cup of tea, so I seldom took colored photos. In Confucian thought, the age of fifty marks the stage knowing the mandate of Heaven. I am now at my fifties and realize how ephemeral human life is. However, I am not an immortal, nor having sagelike characteristics. I just learned that the stage of stainless (the second bhūmi) and develop a pure mind that is free from doubt and defilement. However, I’m still far from the immovable state and need to practice.

    In the summer of 2017, after filming the work Incarnation, I experienced a severe heart rhythm problem which almost triggered myocardial infarction and could have killed me. Consequently, I realized that death was waiting for me and the life is too short to figure out how I can liberate myself from the cycle of Birth and Death. I couldn’t comprehend how to be free from all afflictions and worries and how to avoid delusive ideas. I wept for three days and nights after being enlightened by Shakyamuni Buddha. Up to the moment, I felt ashamed that I failed to realize that the self is as insignificant as dust after these years learning and practicing Buddhism. Since then, I have visited famous temples and monasteries in my spare time, worshiping Buddha, Bodhisattvas, arhats, and all the deities and immortals. Taiwan’s temples are myriad with a enormous number of sects, including Buddhism, Taoism, Yiguandao, Catholicism, Christianity, Chinese religions of fasting, Islam& Baháʼí Faith, Confucianism, Tiandiism& Tian-De Teachings, Xiwangmu cult, Yellow Emperor Sect, Precosmic Salvationism, Liism, World Wide Ethical Society, séance cult, etc. Some people even claim that they can mediate communication between the deities or spirits of the dead with human beings, having their believer rely on themselves instead of the orthodox dharma or dogma and pay excessive respect and admiration for the mediums or objects, accumulating wealth through such an unfair means or even harassing their believer sexually. Due to Taiwan’s historical changes, social turbulence, political struggles, and ideological issues, Buddhism and Taoism are somehow mixed. However, there are few emphases on the concept of the hell. As I took photographs of Yama of each court, judges, wardens of the underworld, jailers, General Fan and Hsieh (the ghost escorts) and all sinners, I found few temples cleverly created hellish scenes that are intriguing, exaggerating, and extraordinary. However, the creations are unparalleled unique. I have been studying Western arts for decades and then I came to realize that simplicity makes the most beautiful works of art. These hellish scenes can even compete with works of Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) and Michelangelo Di lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564).

    Jingang Temple Shimen District, founded in 1986, overlooks the beautiful North shore. Although the temple is mainly dedicated to Phra Phrom (the Thai representation of Mahabrahma), spirits of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism can also be founded in the temple. The worshipper can go cross the Seven Star bridge to relieve bad luck, walk along the five hundred arhat statues and knock on the gong to affirm one’s Buddha nature. Furthermore, the worshipper can also prostrate themself before Asia’s largest statue of Buddha in Nirvana (the Reclining Buddha statue) and pacify the Taoist Tai Sui deity of the year. I was impressed by the Jia-Zi Tai Sui General that a pair of palms grow out of his eyes. In 1994, the biō-kong (the person taking charge of the temporal affairs of a temple) received a divine inspiration from Yama (the King of Hell) that he had to build a sacred hall in the shape of a divine dragon, with the interior designed according to the World of Ultimate Bliss and the Underworld. When the visitor walks in the dark hallway, they will see the tortured people (dioramas, of course) scrunching their faces and crying bitterly and loudly in excessive grief as the visitor triggers the mechanism. One will even find them in the midst of flesh, body liquid and blood, mutilated limbs, and rotten corpses. While each of the ten Yamas are focusing on their own duties, showing their sacred dignity that collect visitors’ attention. The Baogong Temple in Linkou District, New Taipei City exclusively features colorful depiction of hellish scenes in relief in Taiwan. With its pastel shades and cartoon-like style, the relief is both grotesque and adorable at the same time. This temple is dedicated to Bao Zhen (also known as Justice Bao) representing the incarnation of Yama. Living people who have been treated unjustly can come worshipping Bao Gong and receive exorcism. Therefore, many people come here for seeking to solve unsolved cases. In Zhongyuan Festival (the ghost festival), the temple will burn the Zhizha (paper craft) boat to ferry the ghosts to the other shore, which is the shore of enlightenment. The only giant statue of Yama in Taiwan is still in the making. The temple is surrounded by a cemetery, suitable for meditating on the loathsomeness and impurity. Nantian Temple (1971), located next to the Eight Trigram Mountains Buddha in Changhua, features the first animatronic underworld. Despite the small size, the animatronic underworld is intensely shocking. Though it’s slightly worn, the colorful dioramas are still brutally ferocious. The creator was the late venerable Dao Zhang (Taoist priest) Jing Deng-fu while the origin of animatronic deities can be traced back to the 1960s Beigang Chaotian Temple. On the contrary, the Whiteman Toothpaste Tourism Factory in Shuishang Township, Chiayi, features ten Yamas with individual booth. The place is unexpectedly clean and polished yet keeps a simple and modest tone. Then, the Dragon Pagoda of the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas at Lotus Lake in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, holds the only relief of hellish scenes made of Kochin ceramic. All the figures are vivid and life-like. If one goes further into the pagoda, they will see a relief tunnel of the thirty-three incarnations of the white-robed form of Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara) on a white lotus, with a lovely and interesting design. Another Hall of Yama is built in the 1970s next to the entrance of Dagangshan Chaofeng Temple, located in the Alian District of Kaohsiung. Visitors will also see three statues of the Three Holy Ones of the Western Pureland (Amitābha, Avalokiteśvara, Mahāsthāmaprāpta) which assemble at a lotus pond. Although the hellish scene looks somewhat antiquated, you may still find its previous charm. If one goes further, they will reach the sculptural garden of “Attaining the Bodhi Way: the Incarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha,” where the visitor can see the essence of Bhagavato’s (meaning the Blessed one, one of the common epithets for Buddha) life. When Tathāgata (another epithet for Buddha) was old, the king of Kosala wanted to avenge the arrogance of the tribe of Shakyas who had long despised him, regarding him as a son of a maiden. Although Buddha has sat in lotus position alone three times to stop the army from attacking his tribe. However, one can never reverse the cause and following karma. The prince born of a maiden was so furious that he eventually destroyed his homeland. Maudgalyāyana (one of the Buddha’s closest disciples), who is said to have had supernatural abilities that surpassed the other disciples, could not bear to see the slaughter of innocent people. Thus, he saved five hundred people of his tribe with a pātra (an eating utensil of Buddhist monks). Unfortunately, everything he did was in vain, those who were saved eventually turned into a puddle of blood. The Buddha said that the supernatural abilities cannot surpass the power of karma. The cause and effect work all the time. When Maudgalyāyana’s mother fell into the path of hungry ghost, he used his supernatural abilities to save his mother from hunger. However, all the food turned into fire before being fed to his mother. Later, the Buddha commanded the monks to put nectar and dishes in a basin on the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar for the monks from all directions to free his mother from reincarnation. In later times, the Ullambana Dharma Service, the Compassionate Samadhi Water Repentance, and the Yoga Collection for Feeding the Searing Mouths Dharma Service are rituals to eliminate karmic hindrance and to cease to worldly delusions. Through such practices, one can free the dead as well as confess their repentance.

    Madou Daitian Temple is a magnificent and colorful temple in Tainan. Not only can the worshippers visit the eighteen levels of Hell but also the Heaven (it was built in 1979 and inaugurated in 1983) here. The lighting and sound effects are stunning and frightening. When walking alone in the space, one may feel like taking a Guan Luo Yin trip (a Taoist necromancy which leads people’s spirits to hell and communicate with the dead ones) to visit the underworld prison. Before arriving the first court of the underworld, the visitor will walk through the Mountain of Heart Summit, the Pure Heart Pond, the Frontier between the Living and the Dead Realms, the Soul Registry Hall, the Portico of Demons, the Center for Complementary Teaching of Canonical Books, the Citadel of Premature Death, and the Bridge of Vanity. When one arrives at the first court, they will see King Chin-guang, who is in charge of the court, using the Mirror of Retribution to show the earthly form of evil creatures and also witness the sub-hell of Pillar-Holding and Fire Bed, etc. At the second court, King Chu-jiang collates the register of sins the souls of the dead have committed to impose the punishments. Here, you will see the sub-hell of Excrement and Urine, Hungry Ghost, Burning Dance Floor, Ice, Pus and Blood, Whipping, Tongue-Raking, Sword Blade, Stomach-Piercing, Chopping, etc. Next, the dead at the third court, ruled by King Song-di, will receive the punishments including inversion tortures, face-skinning with steel and copper knife, eye-wrenching, pounding, blood-sucking, rib-piercing, roasting, tendon-taking, being eaten by maggots. The visitor can pay a visit to the Palace of Soul-Resuscitation for the Four Forms of Creatures (birth from an egg, birth from a womb, birth from moisture, and birth by transformation). King Wu-guan is in charge of the fourth court. There are sixteen sub-hells at the fourth court including Waist Chop, Tongue Removal, Boiling Pond, Mouth-stabbing, Skin-peeling, Sword Tree, Burning Wheels and Cart, Eye-shooting, etc. Next, at the fifth court, sinful souls are allowed to ascend the Tower of Hometown-Viewing to take a final look of their family. The visitor will witness sub-hells of Knee-striking, Heart-slicing, Blade Mountain, Flying Swords and Burning Stones, etc. The King of Bian City takes charge of the sixth court, which is also known as the “Great Hell of Screaming,” with sub-hells including Fire Cattle, Tiger-Biting, Kidney-Eating, Mouth-Poking, Throat-Nailing, Iron Mill, Decapitation, etc. The King of Tai-shan is in charge of the seventh court, the “Great Hell of Heat and Fire.” The sixteen sub-hells at this court include Finger-Searing, Bowel-Hauling, Stone-Bearing, Boiling Oil, Tongue-Removal and Cheek-Piercing, etc. Next, the King Du-shi is in charge of the eighth court, the “Great Hell of Intense Fire and Heat,” and the sub-hells including Fire Dogs, Molten Iron, Iron Snakes, Dismemberment, Steel Spikes, Burning-Marrow, Iron Ball, Scale, etc. The ninth court is ruled by the King Ping-deng. It is known as the biggest court, Avici Hell (the Hell of Incessant Suffering), which if the lowest level of the hell realm and the interior is gloomily and terrifyingly dark. Those who committed the most serious evil deed will be sent to the Avici Hell. Sub-hells such as Poisonous Snake, Brain-Removal, Crow-Gnawing, Raining Needles, Wasps and Scorpions are included at this court. After arriving the tenth court, ruled by the Great King of the Reincarnation Palace, one can visit the “Observatory of Life on earth” and the “eight bureaus of the Reincarnation Palace” (including the Bureau of Judicial Control, the Bureau of Good-Actions, the Bureau of Bad-Actions, the Bureau of Debts, Gratitude, and Vengeance, the Bureau of Longevity and Destiny, the Bureau of Familial Ties, the Bureau of the Reincarnated, and the Bureau of Birth). The sinful one will be sent to the Pavilion of Mengpo and made to drink the Soup of Forgetfulness to forget all past affairs. According to the sinful one’s merits of previous life, they will go across one of the six bridges (gold, silver, jade, stone, wood, bamboo) to the “Reincarnation-Wheel (Wheel on the Crimson River).” Finally, one is able to reborn in the six realms. According to the Aṣṭadaśa nāraka sutra ( the Eighteen Hells Sutra), after one passes away, they will enter an intermediate and transitional state between death and rebirth, known as antarābhava in Sanskrit, for forty-nine days. The being will be evaluated by Yama, who will decide if one should get reborn or get punished at the hell. Those who committed the Five Grave Offenses (killing one’s father, killing one’s mother, killing an Arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and creating a schism within the community of Buddhist monks and nun who practice for attaining enlightenment.) will be sent to the Avici Hell and stay there eternally. Kṣitigarbha is the Lord of the Nether World, ruling the ten court of Hell. The lord will set up the “Hall of Teaching” at each court to salvage those sinful ones who still obtain few merits at the offering rituals.

    Human beings live the Sahā world (sahāloka in Sanskrit, meaning “endurance of suffering,” a concept of mundane world in Mahāyāna Buddhism) where they share with other reincarnations (including beings of the hells, of the preta, and of malevolent nature spirits) with five turbidities (the Kalpa turbidity, the view turbidity, the affliction turbidity, the living beings turbidity, and the life turbidity). Those who commit the ten evil deeds (killing, stealing, adultery, lying, using immoral language, slandering, equivocating, coveting, anger, and false views) must fall into the three evil paths (animals, preta, and hell). However, how can one escape from the three realms/ twenty-eight heavens (including the six heavens of the desire realm, the eighteen heavens of the form realm, and the four heavens of the formless realm)? Worldly people who don’t have such an awareness cannot leave the cycle of the twelve nidanas (meaning causes or motivations), let alone eliminate the eighty-one afflictions (that have been produced due to misunderstanding regarding reality) and the eighty-eight illusions (including five afflictions of advanced practitioners, also known as five views: view of self, extreme view, evil view, view of attachment to views, and view of morality; and five unintelligent temptations: desire, anger, stupidity, arrogance, and doubt) of thought within the three realms and four Arya satyas (noble truths, including suffering, arising, ending, and path). They cannot realize that the essence of the five skandhas (referring to aggregates of clinging, including the matter of form, sensation, recognition, mental formation, and consciousness) , the twelve ayatana (meaning sense base, including six internal bases: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind and six external bases: visible objects, sound, odor, taste, touch, and mental objects), and the eighteen dhātavah (meaning compositional elements of human existence, including six consciousness, six faculties, and their objects) are the emptiness and the void. Furthermore, they cannot dispel the two reasons for clinging to the idea of the self and the attachment to elemental constructs and even believe in the two (false) tenets that that karma and nirvana are not real and that the ego and phenomena are real. As a consequence, they fail to develop the eleven wholesome mental factors (faith, energy, conscience, being ashamed, non-attachment, non-aggression, non-delusion, calmness, equanimity, conscientiousness, and non-injuriousness) and cease the sixteen unwholesome mental factors (desire, greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, doubt, wrong view, wrath, enmity, hypocrisy, vexation, jealousy, parsimony, deceit, flattery, harming, ambitiousness, stupidity, lacking of faith, idleness, being unrestrained, forgetting, distraction, non-discernment, ). One must bear in mind that once all our virtuous roots are discontinued, they will be trapped in the never-ending reincarnation and the suffering of infinite continuity.
    Is it possible that the hell will be empty one day? If the beings in hell will become extinct while evil spirits inhabit the mundane world, the world could be considered as a pure land. If we could witness the nature of the void, then hell will exist no more.
    Since ancient times, the concept of hell has been widely spread among all tribes. Aging, death, beginning, and end are the basis of nature and the core of cosmic consciousness. However, the prosperous civilization as our island is not a place where desire can be eliminated. It’s impossible to eradicate evil nature. Since fetters brought by the constitution, the state, the law, society, the military, corporations, schools, families, and groups are not less than the eighteen levels of hell, the mortals repress themselves, bury their feelings. Day after day, greed, anger, stupidity, arrogance, doubt, and resentment are stacking. However, since the six dust (visible objects, sound, odor, taste, touch, and mental objects) has not yet been extinguished, people in the mundane world are still full of delusions. The demons, devils, evil spirits, and the wondering dead exist in the wilderness, while only advanced practitioners with transcendent would attempt to make contact with the dead in the wasteland and forest. Worldly people like us trespass in Disneyland-like man-made hell. It is absurd and ridiculous that the hellish scenes cannot stop us from perpetrating evil deeds, but the horrific and cruel scenes yet satisfy our self-righteous shame.

    The pandemic has been boiling over for more than a year and a half. The number of infected patients worldwide is nearly a hundred and eighty million, and the death toll has risen to four million, which is equivalent to a war crisis. I hope that we can all be compassionate, give peace to the dead, treat all sentient beings well and equally. The hell is innately empty; however, deluded and misleading thoughts would give rise to all jealousy and hatred and then manifest the hell before us. This book merely serves as a memorandum of conscience for dictators of the world’s new cold war, supporters of unrestrained warfare, dark web hackers, and those who are cunning and contemptuous and maltreat others when knowing they have problems.

    June 2021,

    Yao Jui-chung