。廚房。

那時，
才收到第一天的進場收工照，
回家看照片就一直傻笑....

某人居然說很久沒看到我這樣笑了，
拜託喔我常常看你的睡臉傻笑好嗎~
只是你看不到。😆😆😆

總之看到努力了很久的廚具設計化為實體，
內心深處好感動好感動啊.....

想當初為了設計廚具和中島，腦子不知道轉了幾百遍、看了多少圖片做了多少功課。

而且這座古典風格的廚具，
充滿了我的勇氣呀。

比如那一天，
和老公一起討論決定中島要和廚具平行，
留下中島前寬敞的走道讓家人們方便活動，謝謝設計師和水電師傅協助更改中島水電的位置。

比如那一天，
收到廚具一開始是偏鄉村風的設計，但鼓起勇氣要求改成古典風，覺得更能搭配家裡的整體設計。

那時看了許多照片，
覺得「Grace格麗斯的實木廚具」門片線條，
跟一般廚具完全不同，
粗淺細紋的邊框層次非常細膩，所以視覺上才有真正古典風格的氣質。

也謝謝「政昌廚飾」（Grace竹東店）老闆娘知道我喜歡的門片造型有其他搭配方式，建議上櫃用拱形、下櫃用長方形，上下門片類似但不同款的搭配，看起來更加延伸視覺高度。

比如那一天，
謝謝廚具老闆娘看我喜歡淺粉紅，和老公喜愛的純白色廚具無法平衡時，建議將中島跳色做成淺粉紅，真是一個既大膽又完全合理的設計想法，立馬同意，也逼迫老公同意，哈哈哈哈哈。

比如那一天，
其實是好幾天....
拿著四塊不同色號的粉紅油漆色板，
在廚具行的白光黃光自然光中不停挑色，
又帶回新家搭配櫃體油漆和磁磚，
再和設計師反覆討論仔細挑色。

最後還剩兩塊選擇障礙再強迫朋友們陪我選擇障礙（欸不是XD），最後選了一塊神奇的淺粉紅色！

在新家的自然燈光下顯現出淺粉紅，但關燈時微光下會出現淺粉紫的神奇顏色。

超級感恩，因為柔很愛中島，本來她喜歡粉紫色有點抗議，但媽咪和芯都很喜歡粉紅色呀。

開薰~💕
我選中一種兩個女兒都愛的顏色。
符合我對她們兩個都重視都愛的心意。

比如那一天，
我仔細地摸摸看看研究著門市的古典風咖啡色展示廚具，在原地思索很久後，
鼓起勇氣要求嘗試將葉型雕刻花柱腳、古典踢腳板放在粉紅中島上，謝謝廚具公司的帥弟弟總是願意幫忙出3D圖協助我們確認，連底部的古典踢腳板要突出幾公分，這種超龜毛要求也包容我理解我。

他們真的對客人很有耐心~。✨👍👍👍

比如那一天，
勇敢決定將大把手放在每片門板的中間。
想要嘗試這樣古典的風格，不要再被傳統的位置框架綁住。

大把手的尺寸合乎豪哥的大手要求，
置中的設計也讓整體更多了古典的沉穩感。

比如那一天，
堅持古典造型的抽油煙機，然後在與依萱姊的討論提點下，和翻了N次的線板書以後，我終於拼出自己喜愛的古典線板，看它在抽油煙機上面的美~好感動。

比如那一天，
和設計師、老闆娘、朋友都討論請教後，
終於決定中島前後留下各20公分的深度，
讓以後可以放吧台椅，偶爾休息喝茶吃個輕食用，
覺得或許這樣更方便陪伴孩子們。
（吧台椅買了，但還沒開始用哈，希望這個深度尺寸好用，再跟大家分享。）

老闆娘推薦的這塊LG人造石是彩色石紋，有點可愛的水晶感，不會太閃亮又不會太呆，將古典風格注入一絲活潑的氣息。

==
還有謝謝老公，一直支持我，愛你。🥰💖

譬如中島側面的雜誌架，是為了造型才想加上去，其實也可以平面就好，可以省錢。

但豪哥還是說：
「要做就做完整吧，這樣每個角度都美~而且很實用。」

超感動~以後你的王位後方很容易拿到雜誌跟杯子喔~
（是說哪個King要自己拿雜誌跟杯子呢？XD）

也特別感謝我們的設計師依萱姊，
因為她對設計細節專業的堅持，
廚具全部對齊冰箱門之後的深度，
我們多出廚具後方十公分可以走飲水機的線路。

卡蘿設計團隊與政昌廚飾（竹東格麗斯）的合作，
看得出來非常有默契，天花板和線板之間會事先現場溝通確認尺寸，風格也互相搭配。

最後非常感謝「政昌廚飾」，服務非常好。
無論是老闆娘或設計師弟弟，一直都很支持又有耐心的給我們建議，不只是廚具，廚具的電器也跟我們討論細節、幫忙我們詢價。

安裝的兩日也謝謝老闆和師傅們，協力完成我們的想法，超級喜歡我的中島水槽有個人造石蓋子，辛苦了。
(中島水槽的蓋子前幾天也有發一篇文章分享。）

在中島檯面下方的前後我想多加兩個插座，他們也協助拉電，這兩個插座非常方便，在中島上使用Bruno或其他小家電都超級好用~
我覺得認真做功課很重要呀，也幸好有記得說，很謝謝有他們的專業協助。💕

這中間，聽說我們的設計圖到了Grace格麗斯總公司之後，受到總經理的賞識。
說希望請攝影師來拍，真的很高興大家一起努力的成果得到肯定，謝謝。🙏✨🎊

雖然後來因為設計師已請攝影師先拒絕了。（可他後來臨時身體不適，加上疫情趕著搬家，我只好自己拍~XD）

但也促成了這篇文章的合作，
能與大家分享「政昌廚飾」和Grace格麗斯的美好，
覺得很感恩。💖

謝謝你們敲碗也等了許久，
希望對大家的廚具能有幫助。😊

報告完畢。💖

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#卡蘿室內設計
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#廚具 #中島 #裝潢 #古典
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#antiquekitchen

#新竹廚具 #竹東廚具 #竹北廚具

.【 #感受昂然生命力 何必妥協 #華麗絕美園藝器具 】

[ 感受植物的生命力 將就的物品 ]
日常生活，總是充滿著各種要事、瑣事，一不留神，彷彿就在飛快無意識當中度過

忙碌慌亂中，家門口的蔓綠絨、院子裡的白樺樹，反而成了救贖，平衡了生活中慌亂的節奏。
（套一句Q爸說的：有時間做園藝其實事件奢扯的事）

每當瞥見家裡的花草樹木，
短暫瞬間，緩下腳步，
凝視彼此，你看著植物，植物彷彿也看著你，
感受那股細微、源源不絕的生命力，身心頓獲舒展。

每當享受花草植物，自然生命的絕美瞬間，
真的很不想看見一旁的“綠色水管. 黃色水管. 橘色噴頭. 黃色手套 .黑色塑膠鏟.....還有各式鮮豔顏色的澆花器” …...
NO! NO! NO!
醜！醜！醜！
#我不妥協......

畢竟一個自然的絕美，一個是人工的極度不美…
反差太大，真的可以瞬間毀掉這美好！🤣🤣🤣
終-於-不-必-再-妥-協！

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[ #園藝器具界的精品 #時尚等級藝術作品 ]

誰說園藝不能有型有款？甚至被匹配時尚、藝術作品
憑藉著這個想法，創造出了堪稱園藝界精品等級的器具

當然龜毛主婦我, 對每個喜歡的東西 總有自己的理由
我自己非常喜歡Garden Glory ㄧ系列的園藝道具 也當然有其原因:

1 . #低調自然冷色系
顏色，絕對是GG令人喜愛的主因之一
＃自然偏冷的低調，融合些許白淨的味道，北歐獨特的冷冽風格展露無遺

2. #乾淨俐落設計 就是好看
幾何、線條、切面，
可以說有北歐極簡風，但再怎麼形容都不如說，就是好看！

3. #功能性強
別以為只耐看不耐用，產品的基本功能完整，還有許多巧思在內
用了就知道, 這ㄧ系列園藝道具 絕對不是只有外在

4. #北歐設計製造
愚蠢的家庭主婦總跳脫不了產地迷思的心魔
對於已經擁有華麗外表和實用的功能性, 還能歐洲製造的園藝產品 怎能不被迷的團團轉
園藝產品真的很難遇見歐洲製造了，

此品牌，很難得，幾乎全部都是丹麥、瑞典、法國…等等製造，
💕
＃經典水管：丹麥(Made in Denmark)
＃弧形水管架：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
＃水管噴頭：法國(Made in France)
＃鑽石形澆花器 （4L/8L)：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
＃金色年代小鏟子 ：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
＃華麗園藝手套：中國 （Made in China)

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🌳 [ 產品介紹 ]

🔷< 1 >. 經典水管

製造：丹麥(Made in Denmark)
長度：20公尺(m)
直徑：1.27公分(cm, 0.5英吋)
重量：約4公斤(KG)

顏色：1. 礦石灰 2. 粉色 3. 尤加利綠 4. 紫雨

特色：
1. 內層強化，兼具柔軟性與防糾結
2. 塑製表面，可防塵土
3. 抗UV，顏色保持多年

跳脫傳統深綠色水管
徹底揮別傳統的單調、一層不變，有沈穩好看的大地色系，包含礦石灰、尤加利綠、紫雨，也有活潑的粉色

另外，水管長度長達20公尺，無論是寬廣的室外空間，或是庭院前後都適用。
還可以針對自己環境裁切，即使對半裁切仍有長達10公尺可使用。
令人欽羨的外在之餘，功能性也扎實完全不馬乎。

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🔷< 2 >. 弧形水管架

製造：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
尺寸：高32公分，寬22公分，深12公分
重量：約0.5公斤(KG)

顏色：1. 礦石灰 2. 粉色 3. 尤加利綠 4. 紫雨

簡單經典的設計，搭配上ㄧ樣精心的用色無論掛上水管或是沒有水管時，都一樣的好看。
架上兩個孔可以輕易地掛上牆面

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🔷< 3 >. 經典水管噴頭

製造：法國(Made in France)
顏色：1. 礦石灰 2. 粉色 3. 尤加利綠 4. 紫雨
水管噴頭打開 盒子上都有明確標示規格

＊詳細的規格尺寸使用 分享文裡有主婦有不專業的圖文說明（其實很簡單用啦）

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鑽形澆水桶--有4L和8L兩個尺寸

🔷< 4 >. 鑽形澆水桶 - 4L (珍珠白/尤加利綠 ）

製造：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
高度：32公分
長度：42公分(包含水管)
容量：4公升(L)

顏色：1. 珍珠白 2. 尤加利綠

來自北歐的獨特風格，會有如此經典造型。
美到讓人每次看到，仍感驚艷的設計，
寬大的底部，縮緊的開口，俐落的側身切面，尤如鑽石。
不只可使用於澆花，當做花瓶花器，擺放花草植物別有一番風味（文章後半段有分享, 擺放植物竟然也很美）
儼然GardenGlory最具有知名度的產品之一

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🔷< 4>. 鑽形澆水桶 ( 8L)

製造：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
高度：40公分
長度：52公分(包含水管)
容量：8公升(L)

顏色：1. 粉色 2. 礦石灰

只有來自北歐的獨特風格，會有此經典造型。
美到讓人每次看到，仍感驚艷的設計，

寬大的底部，縮緊的開口，
俐落的側身切面，尤如鑽石。

不只可使用於澆花，當做花瓶花器，
擺放花草植物別有一番風味，
儼然GardenGlory最具有知名度的產品之一

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🔷5. 華麗園藝手套

園藝手套有分尺寸喔！

尺寸對照：(大家可以先量ㄧ下手長喔）
Small(S)：手長16cm， 手寬8cm
Medium(M)：手長17cm， 手寬9cm
Large(L)：手長18cm， 手寬10cm
X-Large(L)：手長19-20cm， 手寬11-12cm (只有金色和銀色有）

顏色：1. 金(金色圓釦) 2. 銀(銀色圓釦) 3. 粉(心型釦) 4. 黑(虎頭釦)

材質：人造合成皮革 (PU Synthetic) 具伸縮性、防塵土、防潑水。

除了一般園藝手套的耐用性，還兼具伸縮性、防塵土、防潑水性。

優異的功能面，獨特出眾的造型設計面也完全不馬乎，

我自己還很喜歡這園藝手套用心的設計,
不同顏色細節上有不同的搭配性：

＃金色 和 ＃銀色：
因為顏色已經很華麗 所以搭配的是小圓釦

＃粉色 和 ＃黑色：
相較金色和銀色低調些, 但是卻藏著小細節

＃粉色園藝手套 搭配的是愛心, 雙手合起來變成ㄧ個完整的愛心 也把LOVE組合起來了, 愛心的邊緣還是微微的bling bling

＃黑色園藝手套, 搭配的是又酷又帥又霸氣的虎頭, ....應該是又華麗的虎頭 也是微微的bling bling虎頭

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🔷6. 金色年代小鏟子

製造：瑞典(Made in Sweden)
材質：銅製幾何鏟面，特選壓模塑製把手(比木質耐用，比金屬溫暖)
顏色：(把手部分) 1. 粉色 2. 珍珠白 3. 黑色 4. 黑 5. 尤加利綠 6.礦石灰

極具瑞典北歐風格的一個作品，
鏟面採用幾何切線造型，紮實剛硬，

另外，顏色選用亮金色，剛強兼具耀眼華麗
對比於鏟面的線條稜角，把手的部分採用一體成型、圓弧造型，相互對比襯映
把手材質特別選用壓模塑膠 ,以木頭耐用又不會有金屬冰冷感
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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

紅寶石除了好看一無是處？
紅寶石好看吧？喜歡嗎？有人喜歡就一定有人酸，說他除了裝飾外一無是處，我今天就遇到了一個這麼說的人，所以我開始找了相關資料研究一下，從1704年開始機械錶就開始用紅寶石了，注意！這一次就不是為了裝飾了，由於紅寶石的高硬度已經達到模式硬度表的9了，由於紅寶的高硬度，可以減少齒輪軸跟夾板之間的磨差損耗，進而兒保證時間的準確，這非常重要，在剛開始的那段時間，當時使用的寶石並不局限於紅寶石，而是有鑽石、藍寶石、石榴石等。不過，使用天然紅寶石軸承的時計都非常昂貴，一方面當然是天然寶石本身價格昂貴，二是因為在天然紅寶石軸眼製造過程中，高達90%的天然紅寶石因為瑕疵或者加工中的問題被捨棄，三是該技術的人工成本也不低，因此當時僅有高檔鐘錶才會使用該技術。
因為天然紅寶石的先天限制，而且天然寶石的大小無法確定，因此聰明的匠人發明了黃金套筒，天然紅寶石軸承的裝配和更換變得更加便捷。而紅寶石和它的黃金寶座交相輝映，把機芯的美感又提升了一個層次。如今我們能在朗格等一些德國高級製錶中看到這項華麗的裝置，其美學價值遠遠大於技術價值。
成本過高一直是寶石軸承面臨的一大問題，直到18世紀末，法國化學家發明了火焰熔融法，終於人造紅寶石可取代天然紅寶石。
人造紅寶石在外觀、成分以及硬度方面都與天然的紅寶石相同，甚至由於不含有任何雜質，人造紅寶石比普通的天然紅寶石還要更加耐磨。從1940年開始，人造紅寶石開始在鐘錶界普及開來。
這樣大家都知道紅寶石不光只是美觀漂亮了吧，還為鐘錶業帶來了非常大的貢獻