《「拴馬索」——念珠之功德與作用之五 》
　
我有幾串和瑪瑙相關的念珠，有新有舊，最老的念珠曾經收藏到一串戰國時代的紅瑪瑙古珠，形制上呈現算盤珠且不規則狀，距今已經大約有兩千七百多年左右的歷史，覺得不可思議。當初這串念珠是被置放在一位收藏家舖子裡玻璃櫃內，實在是不起眼而且珠繩老舊，絲穗已呈支離破舊之相，一般人應該不會注意到它的存在，要不是看見一只成化窯杯要老闆開櫃讓我上手細看，也不會發現，或許這便是緣分吧！向老闆借了光筆，沒想到一打光，整串橘紅色的光華更顯現出晶光剔透、靈巧精緻的身姿，令我愛不忍捨，上手把玩再三，似乎有股和古人相接，千古一夢的感覺，究竟醒和夢、現實與想像、物及我這中間的區隔豈是境界所能涵蓋。這也讓我憶想到過去曾經讀過《太平廣記》中所載唐玄宗愛女太華公主，想起了前世諸多思緒，其中有一段小時候向宮中的人索要過去世她使用過念珠一事；也想到黃庭堅的南柯一夢，巧遇夢境中的老太太正在祭拜過往的女兒，黃庭堅好奇地參訪老太太女兒的舊房，打開過去世的櫃子，赫然發現眼前的老婦竟是自身前世的親母，最後把這老婦迎請回家好生供養……也想到了永嘉大師的《證道歌》——「夢中明明有六趣，覺後空空無大千」，雖然也談到了夢，但境界又大不相同，人世之間，時空遞變，無一不和因果輪迴有關，我們既無神通，怎知眼前一切人事地物，無一不是前世今生之演繹……。
　
在古代，瑪瑙一直是用來做為護身的符咒一般，佩掛在身上，做為解厭辟邪之用。有看過出土文獻所記載，在兩萬八千多年前，在山西一處遺址中就曾經有挖掘過紅瑪瑙器皿出現，從形制上判斷，應該屬於當時那年代最高領袖或是祭師身上之物，一般人是無法佩戴這麼貴重的珍寶。其實所謂的紅瑪瑙，也是近代這幾年才又再度竄紅的南紅，在古老的中國，曾經有五百年左右的時間，一度紅瑪瑙被當作是最重要的錢幣使用……。
　
近代由於市場炒作和自家人現實利益關係，一度瑪瑙水漲船高。在中國自古瑪瑙便被大幅度地使用，再加上瑪瑙有七寶之稱，因此在佛、道界中使用更是頻繁，其生產之處大部分分布在中國地區的諸多省分，約莫有二十二個地區，隨著產區的不同，顏色也各有不同，有些地區的瑪瑙色彩極為繽紛，甚至於超過三四種色系混雜在一塊石頭上，做為雕塑配件，極為好看。就曾在一古董舖子內見有早期所稱水草瑪瑙，這是被歐洲人做為胸針配件，大小大約是半個巴掌，在燈光下探照，只見裡面內含紋路雖錯綜卻又條理清晰，脈絡涇渭分明，稍一挪動，便又有不同的風貌呈現出來，最難得的是一翻身又是一番景象，原來這胸針恍如一幅潑墨畫一般，底部所呈現出來墨綠色條紋，就如同翻滾不定的海洋，深層處有隨著海波搖曳生姿的草蔓，煞是好看！更有鮮紅如禽血般豔紅色瑪瑙，據說是張家口最看家的產物，當然此處所產之瑪瑙也有不同色澤的石礦，它的特質從外形上看，就如同嬰兒肌膚般毫無皺理可見，至於掌心摩挲起來，卻又有股溫潤沁心之感油然而生，很是歡喜……。
　
雖然我手邊有幾串早期所收購之不同色彩的瑪瑙念珠，也有極不容易從各處拼湊取得的藥師珠，黑白分明，並且顆顆如同露水上之明珠一般，乍看剔透異常，但用放大鏡看，卻又清晰地見到歷史的軌跡，這些都是老瑪瑙珠，如同老熟透梧桐珠一般油光水滑，我有時當做飾物佩於胸前，有時閒置於手掌上撥弄盤轉，有助於參詳文句與經偈。但我較偏愛一串單純豔紅如朝陽般紅瑪瑙珠串，早期用來唸誦阿彌陀佛或準提佛母以及紅度母，這串如鴿血、紅雞血石一般瑪瑙念珠，它的紅在不同的光線下，如貴婦身上所著紅妝素裹般，有時在夏日的餘暉光線下又有如浮光流丹一般，有股遠離囂塵清新且豔麗……。（未完待續）
　
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#正能量文（努力進修修口修心）
人家侮辱你
你要當作是培福
人家傷害你
你要當作是他來成就你

你受盡委屈 記得！
你是有福報的人 不要抗拒

一個人傷害別人兩種情形
傷害別人就是花自己的功德法財
一個傷害別人的 心腸不好
常常傷害人家
就是拿錢去給人家賺
一個忍辱的人
就是一直收錢

這個大忍辱就像開銀行
能夠納百川

世界上有一種生意是永遠虧本
那就是發脾氣
心好嘴不好 榮華富貴折去了

什麼都不能忍耐
你的成就就有限
忍辱也就是我們世間人講的恆心
毅力 長遠心

稱心如意的要忍 為什麼？
怕生貪愛 要保持距離

冤家對頭也要忍 為什麼？
保護你自己的清淨心

修忍辱的果報是相好

一念嗔心起 百萬障門開
嗔恚心一起 智慧就沒有了
理性被矇蔽了
於是全憑感情用事
不僅傷害自己
而且有意無意與一切眾生結冤讎

冤讎若不能化解
因緣成熟時
報應就現前
冤冤相報
而且果報必定一次比一次殘酷

人的身體
心情與大自然融成一片
是真正的養生之道

七情五欲擾亂自然 擾亂人體
七情是喜、怒、哀、樂、愛、惡、欲
其中最嚴重的
破壞力最大的是嗔恨 發怒

永遠生活在大慈悲境界的人
不老、不衰、不迷、不邪、不染
這是究竟圓滿殊勝的功德
是真實的快樂

縱然別人侮辱我 譭謗我 陷害我
也仍然要以善心待之
並由衷地感恩

正是由於對方的侮辱
譭謗和陷害
消除了自己過去今生所造的罪業
因而決不能有絲毫怨恨之心

若有絲毫怨恨之心
不但不能消業
反而增長業障

不安靜是自己不讓自己好
不修行就不能過一天安靜生活
你問佛哪天能好？
佛說
看你哪天老實 哪天安靜
哪天聽話 哪天修行

發脾氣是修行人的大忌
火燒功德林 不是妄說
如果不改掉這個壞脾氣
無論一天念多少部經
講多少次法 度多少人學佛
你自己都出不了三界

發脾氣本身就是無明的表現
無明就是不明白
你自己都不明白佛法
怎麼可能很圓滿的度人？

我們以不善的心對人 惡意對人
受害者只有十分之三
自己受害十分之七
那是糟蹋自己

你自己要健康 要長壽
要充滿智慧
你就用愛心對一切眾生
我們全身細胞都是愛心
都是善心

言語傷人
比殺人還要嚴重
這個事實真相
很少人知道！
造口業是最容易的
而且造得最多
來生的果報非常慘烈

佛教我們不跟一切眾生結怨
寧願受別人的侮辱 陷害
絕不能有一念報復之心
才能超越三界

如果怨天尤人
生起懷恨之心
依舊要六道輪迴
生生世世冤親債主互相報償
一次比一次殘酷

過去無始劫累積的這些罪業
你要是留在六道裡面
冤親債主無量無邊
哪裡有好日子過？

世間人無論享多大的富貴
依然免不了冤親債主包圍

今天我們遇到佛法
真信切願
求生到西方極樂世界
即永脫生死輪迴

我們發願往生西方極樂世界
待蓮品高昇得不退轉時
倒駕慈航還入娑婆普度眾生
廣結善緣成就無上佛道

佛不度無緣之人
冤親債主與我們都有緣
乘願再來度他們

由此可知
冤親債主多也未嘗不好
將來度的眾生多
幫助他們脫離苦海

不論發生了什麼不愉快的事情
都要學會不去煩惱
因為煩惱比歲月更容易催老我們的容顏

它會影響我們的心境
增添我們身心的負重
破壞我們的人際關係

測量一個人的力量大小
應看他的自制力如何

誰不能克制自己
他就永遠是個奴隸
克制自己
才能駕馭自己 成就自己

放縱自己
就會被激情和慾望的魔力牽製
不得自由

莫說成就事業
甚至會走向可悲的境地

一個人只有在無人監督的情況下
也能堅持做正確的事
才算真正成為了自己的主人

這是一個人獲得無悔人生必備的素質

口最容易造罪業
多少很好的修行人
修行一生
積功累德
到後來功德都漏掉了

從哪裡漏掉？
從口裡漏掉！

你為什麼會看到別人過失？
自己心裡有過失
才看到別人有過失

每天所修的這些功德
都從口裡流出去了

我們講菩提心
真誠你沒有 你心是虛偽的
清淨你沒有 你是染汙的
平等你沒有 你是高下
總覺得自己是對的
別人是不對的
正覺沒有了 你愚痴
慈悲你沒有 你自私自利

我們在造口業的時候要特別注意
大家要注意 因小果大 的道理！

我相信佛陀所說的都是真的

地獄裡面一切
抽腸挫斬
拔舌耕梨
這些痛苦都是真的
果報不可思議
所以 我們要很小心 很小心
在身語意業上多做檢討
不要等到有一天我們這麼痛苦的時候
才發現到我們實在是無法承擔啊！

世出世法成就的大小
全在於忍耐功夫之高低

忍耐功夫愈高 成就愈大
忍耐功夫愈低 成就愈小

不能忍耐 則無成就！
修鍊完這些智慧再回首你會發現
原來傷害你的人
才是你生命中的貴人！

#傷害你的人才是你生命中的貴人！

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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

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本集主題：與佛有約 - 佛教造像題記中的祈願與實踐

　　本次將帶著聽眾朋友第五次到中央研究院歷史語言研究所的文物陳列館，由此特展的策展人之一曹德啟先生，他同時也是政治大學宗教所博士候選人，來為各個聽眾介紹此展。

　　本拓片展覽內容主要是石刻佛教造像碑的發願文。石刻造像顧名思義，是指在石頭上雕刻佛像。這是非常慎重，珍貴難得的經驗。造像完成時，刻下發願文記錄緣起過程、時間、共同出資的佛弟子、指導法師、造像內容，最重要的還有個人或眾人發願造像目的。發願是學佛、修行成佛的起點，可稱為初發心。發願造像供養佛陀，同時請佛見證、護持眾人的修行。發願產生的動力既是向上供養佛，也是祈請佛向下護持。藉由造像，發願者與佛陀之間深層地溝通互動，這是我們將發願文的展覽命名為「與佛有約」的原因。

　　「與佛有約」，約定的內容分為供養與護持。何以造像供養？佛教強調佛形像（色身）莊嚴美好，非世間語言所能比喻。佛有三十二相，八十種好，令觀者無上歡喜，目不能捨，心更嚮往，由此走上學佛之道。可以說在佛教傳播上，文字與圖像並重，尤其是對初階者，佛像莊嚴是直觀入門的捷徑。

　　佛教又說畢竟空，三界唯心，色身如幻；故《金剛經》說，「不可以身相得見如來。……如來所說身相，即非身相。」又如《心經》所說，「色即是空，空即是色。」但是古來名僧大德都深知圖像的重要，《續高僧傳》記載唐代淨土宗大師善導(613-681)，造淨土變相三百多幅。日本的雲遊僧圓空(1632-1695)，盡其一生日夜雕刻木佛像，行腳四方以佛像與信徒結緣，他刻了十萬尊以上的佛像，至今在各地寺院遺存約五千尊。他們都成功地透過佛像傳播佛法。如展覽拓片內容所見，或個人發願，或信眾相約共同集資造像，表明他們供養佛陀，虔誠修行的心意，與古代高僧的願力沒有兩樣。僧俗積極複製圖像，造像無數的過程，是佛教藝術的特徵之一。

　　「與佛有約」約定的第二部分是請佛護持，或稱保佑、加持。為何需要請佛加持？發願是修行者實踐的第一步，也可以說是自力，而佛陀加持可以說是他力；自力與他力互為表裏，相互輝映。修行菩薩道者，在實踐生活中唯恐自力有限，智慧不足，故祈請佛力加被，速成佛道。現實世間紛擾不斷，飛來橫禍難以預料，故而需要觀世音菩薩無時不刻的保護，「千處祈求千處應」，滿足世俗人的需求。

　　佛陀出家，修行證道的初發心是為了解脫無常世間，超越生死輪迴。他證得圓滿正覺，說法度化無數弟子，最後在雙樹之間側臥，宣稱進入常樂我淨的無餘涅槃。弟子們依法火葬荼毗後，將無數的佛舍利子分送天下，造塔供養，流傳佛法。從此佛陀不在世間，進入像法時期。僧眾為了克服佛法即將消失的深刻憂慮，除傳抄經典，講經說法之外，更加強對佛舍利的崇拜。世間護法的皇帝如印度阿育王為弘揚佛法，供養佛陀，在各地造八萬四千佛塔；隋文帝也仿效阿育王，積極在全國各州造立舍利塔。

　　在無佛的時代，修行者造像祈願，將來往生彌勒菩薩所在的兜率天宮。彌勒菩薩在久遠的未來將下生世間成佛，並且廣大說法，令所有眾生開悟。修行者往生兜率天，將來也隨著彌勒下生，聞法開悟。這是最初往生者的心願。到了南北朝末期，阿彌陀佛西方淨土逐漸取代兜率天，成為世俗信眾臨終往生的標的。阿彌陀成佛前曾發四十八大願，其淨土極樂世界莊嚴光輝，滿足物質需求，修行精進，更方便的是信者臨終前只要發願稱念阿彌陀佛名號十次，必得往生。

　　從展覽拓片可看出，發願者涵蓋社會各階層，皇帝、貴族、官吏、將軍、士兵、僧人與民眾，不分貴賤，在不同的時空，各自發願，共同參與供養與實踐學佛修行的經驗，此展共分分為六大展區。

• 壹、莊嚴
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• 叁、現世利益
• 肆、修行實踐
• 伍、佛法復興
• 陸、淨土往生

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我是剃度修行的僧人
拋開七情六慾貪痴嗔
花花世界我如此不捨
終究難成為神
我看破空門遁入紅塵
不如當個襯職的神棍
想借花獻佛騙吃騙喝
信徒供養一生

我是上帝派遣最後一個使者
神的旨意就讓我來替祂貫徹
各位信徒虔誠地來為我朝聖
在這個分分合合的耶路撒冷

佛說 色即是空
明心見性 頓悟成佛
禪宗 祖師達摩
放下屠刀 我立地成佛
佛說 色即是空
明心見性 頓悟成佛
墨說 兼愛非攻
擺脫輪迴 我萬佛朝宗

人類都應該生而平等
沒有人能死後又復生
借神的名義血流成河
別相信這鬼扯
人性本善或人性本惡
不要上帝也不需使者
我相信鬼我也相信人
就是不信真神

這是我的十字軍東征
起來吧愛家的信徒們
釋放你蟄伏的狂熱
崇拜我唯一真神

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