《「拴馬索」——念珠之功德與作用之六 》
　
有關於念珠所聽聞過的種種功德利益，無論是在道教或是佛教中，實在是太多！關於這類說法，最終我還是會回歸於佛陀所開示的經典。佛曾經在一部經典中有講述到佛珠的因緣，這部經文叫做《佛說木槵子經》。當時是因為有一位國王，他的名字叫做波流離，他所屬的國家並不是大國，又碰到不好的年歲，所以國中有許許多多的流寇、盜匪橫行，傳染病也跟著流行傳播，民生極為困苦，因為這般，他經常無法安眠，因此他就請教佛陀：「有什麼妙法可以讓我解除憂煩？讓我可以精進地修行？希望佛陀能特別地垂示、傳授我可以解脫痛苦和煩惱的大法，讓我在獲得法寶時，可以得大安心，在未來際也可以脫離一切輪迴痛苦⋯⋯」
　
這是當時佛見到波流離王時，波流離王因為長時間承受了太多壓力，所以使得身心疲憊和缺乏精進心，弄得十分苦惱，既消瘦又不知如何是好，於是佛就對他解說了《佛說木槵子經》，希望可以消除他心中的介然沮喪以及淒寒無施。佛在這部經是怎麼說的呢？
　
「善男子，如果要消除一切的煩惱和障礙，或因為業報所成熟的障礙，首先要先準備一百零八顆的念珠不離身，不管是在行、住、坐、臥之中，不要讓自己的心有所散亂，專一持誦佛、法、僧名號，每當唸誦一句，就過珠一粒，如此類推，從第一聲持唸三寶名，直至第二十聲，心中不要有散亂，再逐次地到百聲、千聲，甚至於千萬聲，依此累計持唸到二十萬聲，這期間若能一直身、口、意清淨，一心不亂，毫無諂曲之心，此人往生之後可以直接升至第三天，到此天時，天人之樂衣食不求自來，假使可以更精進地唸滿一百萬遍，那便可以斷除八十八種的結使以及一切業障，超越一切輪迴，直至涅槃，煩惱永斷⋯⋯。
　
當初剛開始讀誦到這一部經文中的內容，竊喜異常，並且也希望可以介紹有緣信解之人，依法持誦，即便是往生後投生到欲界天之中的第三天當天人，對於一般人而言，也是極具鼓勵的。焰摩天的世界充滿了無限的光明，當然就沒有像人世間的日夜困擾，住在這裡的天人無時無刻都享受著人間無法體會得到的歡愉，此天是空居天中的第一層，這地方距離人類所居住的地方有十六萬由旬之遠，距離上方的忉利天大約有八萬由旬，此處的環境光是山，它的高度便有一萬由旬之高，天界中有四大山為主，到處都遍滿了虛空中自然飄零的花蔓，隨處可見明澈如鏡般水池，數不盡的成千上百水木清華、殊勝的園林環繞著，此番此景無法言喻的享樂，連忉利天都無法可比，居住在此的天人可以享有的天壽共為兩千歲，要知道，這處天界所過的一日一夜等同我們娑婆世界就是兩百年，此天天人因為尚屬於欲界天的緣故，所以也有女嫁男娶等事，但不似如娑婆世界人世間諸多麻煩，天人之間只要彼此擁抱，就等同和合一般，不可思議的是，此天的天人若是有生兒育女之想，馬上就會隨其願望，會從自己的膝蓋上面出生，小孩一出生就有世間三四歲孩童一般之身形⋯⋯這天的天王也是閻魔王，也就是地獄之主，掌管人世間往生後決定人之生死大事⋯⋯。

於是國王心裡生起了殊勝的信解，朝著佛陀的方向頂禮，接著說：「這些實在是太殊勝了！我一定如法奉行，接著我會頒布命令，要國中所有的眾生都準備請得木槵子念珠一千份，先給予貴族每人一份。」國王不間斷地持誦三寶的名諱，如此即便是在軍旅之中也未曾荒廢過唸誦三寶的名號。
　
至於整串念珠的長度與數目，以品位來說，若能擁有一千零八十顆，串在一串之上持誦，這便是最上品的念珠。但實際上這麼一大串念珠，平常是很少看到的，有些念珠或提珠也有人使用五十四粒或者是二十七粒等等。為什麼會有一千零八十粒數珠的由來？主要是因為包含了十法界中一百零八個數字，一百零八的部分只是表示一百零八種的煩惱，或者也可以說證得一百零八種不可言喻的三昧，也有一些經文說到五十四粒的念珠，是證得五十四位階的意思。其餘的四十二顆、二十七顆，或者二十一顆念珠，其實都代表著菩薩祂的位階以及聲聞、緣覺各自不同的階位⋯⋯（未完待續）
　
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週末去了書展追曾鈺成~兩年沒見了, 仿如隔世。今次時間較充裕, 先是簽書、送上畫作; 講座尾段問了問題; 完結以後又拍照和談了一段話(其實主要是我在狂說話，迫他聽我表白wwww)

因為我近年在探討「意義」這件事，所以在Q&A問了一個比較私人/個人層面的問題。其他人主要問政局展望丶「邊個會做特首」，我倒沒什麼興趣。這是新書發佈，又不是許願池~

猴:「寫作是一件困難的事, 很容易就爛尾寫不下去。弗洛伊德說, 一個作者必須堅信自己的內容十分重要, 什致不理性地相信自己絶對正確, 才有力氣完成作品。回顧你的寫作歷程, 你的第一篇投稿是少年時代的「無病呻吟」, 一種情緒宣洩的需要; 2012的《矛盾集》志在爭取市民支持政改; 《主席八年》上冊有教育公眾議事規則的意味; 今次的下冊則是一種抽離現實, 沈醉於回憶的情緒處理。那麼在古稀之年, 處於現今這個世界, 還有什麼信念或動機支撐你寫作? 你喜歡推理小說, 會考慮寫嗎?」

他多謝我問這個問題，打趣說:「你知道我的寫作歷程比我自己還清楚。」而答案是-----雖然享受寫作，但沒有再寫了。(原文可以在他的YouTube看錄影)

我自己覺得今次的講座比起2019年4月的新閱會講座, 自然添了一份沈重。講座中會談到如果當初政改是成功的，現在的局面會不會不同呢? 可惜《時不再來》了。

我想很多人都經營過一種荒謬感。不停重覆幹同一件事, 又不停回到起點, 徒勞無功, 得到的只有挫敗。古人很了解這種感受。西方有推石頭的西西弗斯神話, 中國有「吳剛伐木」, 日本有嬰靈在賽河原堆石頭、佛教有佛陀放蜘蛛絲到地獄。

到一個程度, 不得不問這一切有什麼意義。另一個問題是如何應對這種感受。

講座完結, 大家排隊拍照。我站在一旁, 覺得見面的機會難得, 很想說點什麼, 但又不想太random或落入寒暄。於是組織了一小段「表白宣言」等人散了再講（什麼鬼)

「我是因為Viu TV 《帶著矛盾去旅行》開始留意你的 (其實更早就在看, 但沒那麼迷w)。 不只你的書，長毛送你的《The Art of Loving》我都看了。我想大部份人看矛盾這個節目是當成輕鬆搞笑的, 而於我則影響很深。在你們這段關係裏面知道如何與矛盾共存。#

我覺得現在的世界缺乏這種氣道, 好容易就指責別人「中立撚」。你經常quote但丁的話*，因為別人經常用這句來罵你。對這事我都感受好深，因為我也是這樣的人。也許可以說, 受你影響成為這種人。

你做的事, 不論寫作還是拍片, 於我都是有莫大意義的，謝謝你。」

在此分享一句挺喜歡的電影對白, 來自《The Hours》
“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”

P.S.後來就着矛盾這個主題, 我介紹了本書給他。雖然有想過送, 但在人家的新書發佈送書太奇怪了~ 哈哈哈。

# The Art of Loving對西方精神有一個批評，說它被局限在亞里士多德的邏輯原則, 即同一律(a是a)、矛盾律(a不是非a)和排中律(a不能既是a又是非a, 不能不是a又不是非a)。而東方思想則比較習慣思考矛盾邏輯，例如印度的「萬象」、中國的「大智若愚」等。

*但丁 //「地獄裏最熾熱之處，是留給那些在出現重大道德危機時，保持中立的人。」//

曾鈺成 Tsang Yok Sing, Jasper

「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

#西遊記 #西遊記真實人物 #HenHenTV奇異世界

各位大家好，歡迎收看HenHenTV的奇異世界，我是Tommy
上一集說了封神榜裡面的真實人物，今天我們來說西遊記，西遊記，也是出於明朝時代，雖然現在講西遊記的作者是吳承恩，但是也有人說是丘處機，因為一些煉丹術的術語是全真教裡面的經典叫【西遊證道書】，這個說法卻讓其他人質疑，因為丘處機是宋朝末年，而西遊記的時代雖然是唐朝，但是很多裡面描述的風土人情確實明朝才有的。
是的，丘處機有在射雕英雄傳裡面，是真實的歷史人物來的。下一次可以講金庸的咯～
回到這裡，我們姑且相信寫的人是吳承恩，也是出版於明朝，而裡面的人物和封神榜是有重疊的，例如二郎神，哪吒，還有一班的仙家，那麼西遊記裡面出現的人物是真的嗎？
是的，唐太宗是唐朝的真實人物，他就是李世民，因為和自己的兄弟爭皇位，他幾次給他哥哥和弟弟，也就是李建成和李元吉多次想殺害他，李建成已經是太子了，但是因為李世民功高蓋主，朝廷裡面有很多維護李世民的聲音，他覺得李世民是個威脅，就多次下毒毒殺他，但是卻被他躲過，於是李世民就下定決心，知道李建成和李元吉在玄武門那裡埋伏，於是就將計就計，派士兵圍著他們，把他們殺了，連同他的五個兒子都殺了。
在西遊記裡面，李世民當了皇上過後，一直發惡夢，還被帶到地府，見到了他的兄弟來復仇，還見識了十八層地獄，見識了地獄的恐怖，他就信佛並且大力推廣佛教，和唐三藏談論後，就決定派他去西天取經。回來造福人民，也藉此消除自己的罪惡。
那麼唐三藏是在歷史裡面有這個人嗎？是的！是真實人物來的。
他的法號叫玄裝，俗稱陳祎 （yi1），為漢傳佛教裡面最偉大的譯經大師之一，被譽為中國四大翻譯家之一，也是中國法相宗教的創始人，由他的弟子辨機記錄他的口述，並且寫下的【大唐西域記】就是記錄他去到天竺學習並且翻譯到中國的一些經歷。由於古印度非常缺乏記錄，因此這是非常珍貴的遊記，在裡面可以了解到古天竺的地理歷史，他們根據玄裝的這個大唐西域記裡面的資料去尋找古蹟，證明這個遊記是真的！
那麼為什麼他要去西域，也就是印度取經呢？
原因當時的佛教是攝論宗和地論宗這兩家對於法相之說有點出入，於是他就想去到佛教的來源之地，天竺去尋找總骸（gai1）三乘學說的【瑜伽師地論】，把一切的法相之說貫通融合在一體。
但是他那時得不到唐朝的過所，也就是護照，所以一直沒有出發。在貞觀三年，他就私自從長安出發，也就是現在的西安，經過高昌國，也就是現在的新疆吐魯番。被高昌王強行留下當國師，只是玄裝不妥協，三天不吃不喝，高昌王覺得愧疚於他，於是就和他結拜兄弟。所以結拜兄弟並不是唐太宗，而是高昌王。
終於千里跋涉，從長安到達了天竺，你們知道有多遠嗎？先說從長安到高昌，距離大概是2635公里，如果是走路大概需要552小時，如果好彩的有馬騎，一天大概可以跑100公里，都要整二十七，八天才可以到達高昌。以前根本沒有現在的馬路那麼好走，可能還需要攀山越嶺。還要找路呢～然後高昌去到印度是大概也是2500公里。以前的人真的意志力很強哦！玄裝到了天竺後呆了那爛陀寺十年，這個那爛陀寺位於現在的印度東北部，也就是現在印度的比哈爾邦中部。
這那爛陀寺每天有一百多個講壇，每天教導大乘佛法，天文學，數學，醫學等等。玄裝把這十年學習的東西，把657部經書帶回中土，他從643年從天竺出發，到了645年，也就是大概兩年時間才可以到達，收到唐太宗的熱烈歡迎，他不是偷渡客嗎？哈哈
的確，是在唐太宗李世民的推廣之下，他在長安設立了譯經院。一生翻譯的經文有七十二部，共一千三百三十八卷。
孫悟空呢？也是有這個人，但是不是猴子。
在玄裝去到西域時，然後到了瓜洲去買馬，胡人石磐陀（pan2tuo2）請玄裝為他受戒，並自願當他的嚮導，而且也是玄裝的第一個弟子，他剃度過後也成為了胡僧，胡僧和猢猻的音很接近，結果就變成猴子了。但是他陪到一半就半途而廢，沒有再幫玄裝做嚮導了
還有這個猴子的設定其實跟印度傳說的神話裡面的神猴哈奴曼，擁有四張臉，八只手。幫助羅摩去拯救他的妻子悉多，傳說中的哈奴曼靈敏機智，可以騰雲駕霧，火燒楞伽宮（leng2qie2）和偷仙草，不需要偷，去奶茶店就有很多仙草了啦～所以大鬧天宮可以就是借鑒火燒楞伽宮吧～
在歷史裡面的確實有一名悟空大師，他叫車豐朝，有點像韓國人的名字。
雖然和玄裝不是同一個時代，他是在唐朝750年的一名武將，慣用的武器是什麼呢？是的，他是用重36斤重的熟棍，就是大概18公斤重，他的確實護送唐朝使團前往天竺，但不是護送唐僧。
在一次馬瘟當中，他中了病，因此不可以和唐朝使團回去大唐，在法師三藏的醫治下，他痊癒了，覺得人生無常，因此皈依佛門，三十年後回到大唐，被唐德宗賜法號為悟空，他也留下了一本叫【悟空入竺記】
那麼豬八戒呢？也是有一名大師叫八戒，但是是比玄裝更早三國時代，叫朱士行，由於明朝的皇帝姓朱，所以他們不能放朱，聽說當時明朝也不能養豬，
所以那時的人物設定為山豬，加在一起就變成豬八戒，
他是中國歷史裡面的第一個漢族僧人，也是第一個去西域取經的人。
雖然裡面都是一些摻雜的歷史人物，但是西遊記還是我很喜歡的一個作品，尤其是大鬧天宮的時候，其實是對於專制和階級之分的控訴，在能者並不可以在政治上受到重用，也顯示出作者對於當時的社會封建和專制。當然裡面也是宣傳佛教的一本名著。
好啦！今天的故事就講到這裡，下次要開始講金庸的名著啦！裡面的很多人物是真實存在的歷史人物，但是先告訴你，歷史裡面沒有韋小寶這一個人物。如果喜歡我的影片，那就分享，訂閱，按贊吧！我們下個奇異世界見，Bye Bye!

2019年11月12日 黃偉民易經講堂

喬裝、暗殺、棄屍、造假證據……

警察瘋狂，香港大亂。

科大同學周梓樂的慘死，全城哀慟。

日前見醫生，作每月例行檢查。醫生突然說：

「從三樓跳落二樓，只會雙腳折斷，不會盤骨碎裂，頸椎折斷。他是背部向下，被掉下去的。

這是醫學常識。

相信香港九成醫生，都很不滿。警察說謊，侮辱醫學專業。」

周末全城哀傷中，周日警察又走進又一城，挑釁市民。

又一城是周日中產的活動地。附近九龍塘、又一村、北面沙田、大埔的中產家庭，因周日菲傭休假，大都聚在又一城，早上飲茶、看電影、買衣服、晚飯、再在超市買點東西回家。

是扶老攜幼的家庭樂的活動勝地。

警察也看中這一特點，他們要保持香港憤怒，任何階層，任何年紀，都不能安居樂業。

星期一早上，交通警就開槍射殺堵路示威青年，各區放射催淚毒煙……

維持搞亂香港，人人要面對今日亂局，就是為了要取消月底的區議會選舉？

建制派幾十年的統戰工作，給林鄭政府一鋪清袋了。那還選什麼舉？

但拖得今年的區議會，明年的立法會選舉又如何？

拖到什麼時候？永遠取消各級選舉麼？

警察刻意暴打、濫捕、槍殺的年輕人，就是將來的選民了，西環那邊的鐵票，死一件就少一件；搞掂全港的媒體，TVB再作虛弄假，都不及每個香港人自己的親身經歷，耳聞目睹的一切。

用橫手，吹黑哨，阻止黃之鋒、周庭、羅冠聰他們參選，但他們只有二十零歲，橫手、黑哨，要搞幾多年？葉劉、林鄭，老死老殘了，他們還未到五十歲。

發展到今日局面，林鄭政府如何運作下去？

林鄭不可能不落台。

看看這幾日各大專院校的大學畢業禮，畢業同學的肢體語言，行為表態！他們絕大部份都是九七年出生。今年二十二歲的年輕人。

他們九七出生，歷遍了董建華、曾蔭權、梁振英、林鄭政府的管治，看著中共摧殘香港的文明，鄙視大陸全國發錢寒的低下價值觀，他們不甘融入大陸以動物本能生存，他們見到校內大陸生的愚蠢盲目，他們不接受北京一切自以為是的成就，他們擁抱文明，拒絕愚昧。

他們都是反共菁英！

花了二十二年統戰工作，失去了整代的香港年輕人，因為共產，本質是一個時代的騙局。

騙局再花巧，都只是蒙騙，不能夠建設，更不可能發展成一套制度。

人人都關心科大周同學的慘死，只不是是一位警員在將軍澳的婚宴，遭示威者騷擾，召來防暴警鋪天蓋地的，在將軍澳報復。放毒煙、暴打、殺人、棄屍。

當周梓樂在醫院，與死神搏鬥時，有同學為他卜了一卦，得《周易》第三十八卦，火澤睽卦之初爻動，變卦火水未濟卦。

睽卦的卦象，上卦離為火，火性向上揚；下卦兌為澤，澤水向下流。性情各走極端，所以睽違了。

《易經》說：二女同居，其志不同。離是中女，兌是少女，兩姊妹長大時雖同住一間房，但對人生的追求不同。

睽卦對上卦是家人卦，風火家人，兩卦相綜，互為一體。

睽卦之後是蹇卦，水山蹇，上險下阻，水盡山窮；綜卦是解卦，雷水解，排難解紛，恩仇俱泯。

《周易》的卦序，家人、睽、蹇、解四卦一路的走來，家人和睽，兩卦相綜，一體兩面；蹇和解，也是相綜一體。而睽的錯卦，卻是蹇；家人的錯卦，卻是解。兩組卦，順序走來，家人與睽，蹇和解，是相綜；睽與蹇，家人和解，偏偏又是六爻全變的錯卦關係。

四卦錯綜複雜，如果六十四卦是一個大周天，這四卦，是其中的小周天。

風火家人卦，只差上爻一個爻，便成為水火既濟卦了。所以，儒家說，要成就大事業，治國平天下，先要重視這個家。

家，是社會最基本的組成部份，從家道可以修成既濟。

家人向上修，可以成既濟，但一旦反目，就變成睽卦了。

睽卦是各走極端，局面進一步惡化，便成為寸步難行的蹇卦。蹇，足寒，走不了，如何解除險境，秘密在解卦的錯卦，六爻齊變，雷水解變回風火家人。解險險難，是將蹇卦倒轉，回歸家人的根本。

佛教行人認為，一家人有緣才能成為一家人，不是有恩就是有仇，所以有人為報恩，有人為討債，永世輪迴，生生世世，冤親債主，源源不絕。

家人卦欠最上一支爻，便修成既濟卦；睽卦只有最初一支爻，和未濟卦不同。

什麼是既濟？渡彼岸，搞掂了就是既濟。六十四卦中，只有這一卦六爻全皆正，陽爻剛位，陰爻柔位，君君、臣臣、父父、子子、夫夫、婦婦，每個人都做對自己的角色，所以既濟，般若波羅蜜，到達彼岸了。

那什麼是未濟？未搞掂，仍在苦海中，因為六爻全錯位了。六爻全不正，大家都不安其位，造化弄人，只能未濟。

睽卦，除了初爻，由第二爻到最後一支爻，跟未濟卦是完全一樣的。

睽，還有挽救的機會，便是初爻。睽卦初爻，陽爻剛位，是正位的，可能是剛由家人卦轉來，仍有感情，恩義還在，所以是正的，這成為搶救睽違的最重要機會，錯失了，就永遠挽救不回來，因為跟著的五支爻，都全屬不正了。

所以，在睽違的初期，第一支爻時，切勿火上加油，否則無法挽回家人的關係。

學生為周同學慘劇卜得的，是睽卦的初爻動，即唯一正位的陽爻動了，變了火水未濟卦。未濟，未解決，未渡彼岸，火水不容了。

睽卦初爻卦辭：
初九。悔亡，喪馬勿逐，自復。見惡人，無咎。

先提悔之，跟住說馬跑掉了，不要急著去追。

睽卦雖然意見睽違，「二女同居，其志不同」，大家的追求不同，但始終是二女同居，由家人卦發展而來的。所以，一開始，提悔亡，不要意氣用事，否則，將來後悔一輩子了。

所以，睽違一開始時，便得克制，不要太絕。懂得克制，煩惱便會消失了。

喪馬勿逐，馬代表心，馬跑出去，心也跑出去。睽卦，初爻講喪心，上爻講病狂。喪心病狂都出來了，所以才睽違。

周同學遇到的，是喪心病狂的對手。

喪心的人，也是精神病的世界，失去冷靜，失去理智。

睽卦上爻是《易經》最長的一支爻，用了廿七個字，描繪睽卦到極端時看到的世界是扭曲的，無中生有的：

睽孤，見豕負塗，載鬼一車。
先張之弧，後說之弧。
匪寇娼媾，往遇雨則吉。

睽卦極端的精神病者，程頤將這一段發揮得很生動，他看到的人像豬一樣的污穢，全身泥巴，見其可惡之甚也，更猜測他的罪惡，像載滿鬼的車子。鬼魅無形，他都看到了，無中生有，疑心極致。遇雨則吉，雨可以象徵淚水。流下淚來，才知幻象。

睽卦初爻說喪心，不要急著去追，要冷靜下來反省，自復。否則，發展到上爻，就是剛才說的極睽之象。喪心不處理，便發展成病狂。

見惡人，無咎。

見到立場和你相反的人，沒關係的。像地藏王菩薩，常駐地獄，這是大宏願，眾生渡盡，方證菩提；地獄未空，誓不成佛。

周梓樂同學這短暫的人間一轉，可能是菩薩乘願而來，喚醒香港人的。

睽卦的初爻變，為火水未濟卦，香港的局勢，不會因周同學的死亡而解決。未濟，火水不容，未解決。六爻全錯位，是林鄭政府，警察背後勢力，錯判形勢，不會完成北京要求「止暴制亂」的任務。

信仰有兩個重要的功能：解釋生死與導人向善，釋除人類與生俱來面對無知與未知的不安，也教你點樣做人。

人死是如燈滅化為烏有，還是能量轉移到異次元空間繼續浮遊？無法考究，大部份宗教都告訴你生命盡頭有另一個世界，中國傳統道教稱那個世界為陰間，人類建構陰間的靈感離不開我們正身處的陽間，因此有冥通銀行，因此有地獄。所謂地獄即是地府的牢獄，當初是參照人間刑法系統設計，至漢朝佛教傳入中原，佛教之中十八層地獄的概念融入其中。

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