「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

疫情爆發以來，藝術家能做的事不多，平常就閉關在家其實挺習慣，但是總想為社會做些事、幫上忙，想了半天安撫人心也許還行吧！於是另一本「地獄空」將趕在中元普渡八月初出版上市，由典藏出版社社長發心首肯出版，設計名家黃子欽操刀，附贈很多符咒給大家趨吉避凶。諸惡莫作，眾善奉行，疫情消退，平安喜樂。附上後記給大家解封後參訪這些宮廟，觀照自己的心所。全文如下：

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、鐘情黑白世界之單純，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、儒教鸞堂、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）乃至米開郎基羅（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糟屠殺，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

《無異之地》極樂謊園（十二）
　　
我從來都冇諗過會喺咁嘅情況下遇返無二。因為每次喺危急關頭，佢都總係瀟灑咁出現，然後從容不迫咁打低敵人，創造出大逆轉。
　
所以，我實在無辦法相信眼前呢個負傷、被綁、承認失敗嘅人就係無二。
　
「你唔係真嘅無二……嗯，肯定係咁。」我難以置信咁退後兩步，撞落牆一刻先意識到背後通返去鏡面走廊嗰道門已經消失咗。
　
但其實我呢個想法絕對係有道理……既然樂園有能力喺短時間之內複製我所認識嘅人，就算複製埋無二都唔應該感到意外。
　
「真係慘，已經打輸咗……仲要俾你當係假人。」無二無奈咁嘆咗口氣，呢種口吻確實係好似佢本人。
　
「我係唔會俾你呃到。」感覺今日已經講過好多次相同嘅說話。
　
但今次我係下定決心無視佢。稍微冷靜落嚟後，我開始望下帳篷周圍有冇其他出口。
　
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「啱啦，唔使理我、更加唔使救我，你專注搵出口就得。」無二笑住講：「係嘞，點解只係得你……Cheryl呢？」
　
我冇理到佢，好快就望到左面兩排觀眾席之間有一個出口。雖然驟眼睇落另一邊燈光暗淡，感覺似係通去後台而唔係帳篷外面，但都總好過繼續留喺呢度。
　
「我明喇，你哋失散咗。」無二繼續講落去：「阿聰，你而家肯定係覺得我個計劃根本係亂嚟，對我非常失望……」
　
「夠喇，我係唔會俾你影響到。」
　
「點敢影響你呢？我而家只係衷心希望你出去之後可以好好生活，唔使掛住我，記住得閒幫我清潔下辦公室……」
　
我趁住自己意志仲堅定嘅時候加快步伐，但就喺我行到距離出口剩四五米嘅時候，出口嘅另一邊突然傳嚟一聲猛烈嘅碰撞聲，嚇到我即刻停低腳步。
　
「啊……睇嚟你想走都唔係咁易。」無二講。
　
「你！」我轉身望返過去，然而最先吸引我注意嘅唔係無二，而係突然就出現喺佢下方嘅極樂園園長。
　
「小兄弟，我哋嘅旅程仲未結束。」園長攤開雙手微笑住講。
　
唔知點解，今次我一聽完即刻有種強烈感覺──眼前呢個園長並唔係幻象，而係佢本人。
　
「呢度係最後一個VIP區，你將會喺度完成自己嘅『蛻變』。」
　
「蛻變？」我不解。
　
「聽落咁變態，絕對唔係乜嘢好事。」無二接住講，然後又吐出一口鮮血。
　
「你知唔知有幾多人夢寐以求想嚟到呢度？因為佢哋討厭本來嘅自己，想要徹底改變，變得更加好……」
　
「好明顯我唔係呢類人……」我腦海浮起如初嘅臉孔，「我從來都冇討厭過自己。」
　
「而且佢全家都過得好幸福。」無二補充道。
　
「小兄弟，既然你主意已決，咁我就唯有用更加強硬嘅手法。」園長嘆咗口氣，「因為『極樂園』嘅秘密，係絕對唔可以俾『外人』公開出去。」
　
「阿聰，今次我係真心呼籲你走先喇。」雖然我斷定呢個無二係假人，但呢句說話確實係有幾分道理。
　
所以，我轉身向住出口嗰邊，但只係啱啱起步，出口另一邊就傳嚟金屬劃過地板嘅尖銳聲音。幾秒後，有一個熟悉嘅身影喺嗰邊行出嚟──係「我」，一模一樣嘅樣貌、一模一樣嘅衣著……唯一嘅分別，就係佢右手握住一把半米長嘅鋸齒刀。
　
「哈囉，另一個我。」『我』笑住講。
　
老實講，呢刻我並唔算係非常驚訝。話晒見識過無二嘅分身，又經歷過尾東樓事件，對分身呢回事已經見慣見熟。但即使唔驚訝，眼前嘅情況亦都係不容樂觀……因為對方係拎住把真刀。
　
「你明明話過唔會傷害人……」我退後一步，回望咗園長一眼，「咁呢個係咩情況？」
　
睇嚟，佢已經唔打算偽裝落去，正式撕開佢一直戴住嘅謊言面具。
　
「你仲未明？」園長笑住講：「只要佢（複製人）取代咗你成為真人。咁喺佢眼中，我哋當然係冇傷害到任何人。」
　
就喺佢講完一刻，另一個「我」即刻一個箭步直奔埋嚟，同時高舉起鋸齒刀。我從眼神睇得出佢係認真的，佢係真心想殺死我……！
　
下一瞬間，佢已經跑到我面前，一刀由上而下斬落嚟。雖然我早有預備一個側身避開，但對方馬上就搵到破綻，右腳一伸踢中我左下腹。雖然唔算好痛，但足夠令我失平衡向後跌低。
　
「可惡……」我即刻用力撐返起身，然後退後幾步拉返開距離。
　
其實頭先我跌低嗰下絕對係一個乘勝追擊嘅好機會，但對方並冇落手解決我。
　
「我知道你諗緊咩。」另一個『我』一臉自信咁講：「我之所以唔即刻解決你，係因為我想畀機會你反抗……但就算你點樣反抗，我都一定可以打低軟弱無力嘅你！」
　
換轉係以前，呢刻我肯定會覺得萬事皆休，但今日唔同……好唔同。
　
只要敵人係我自己，而唔係其他更厲害嘅人嘅話，我絕對係有勝算的……
　
「喂！」上方突然傳嚟無二嘅咆哮，「我知道你有帶喺身㗎！今次千祈唔好衰俾我睇！」
　
無二嘅呢番說話，不禁令我改變想法，開始覺得佢係真人。但唔重要，呢刻我要專注係另一件事……諗到呢度，我喺褲袋裡面拎出某樣嘢。
　
「你放心喇，取代你之後……我一定會好好照顧如初。」語畢，『我』再一次衝過嚟，眼神充滿住殺意。
　
今次呢一刀我肯定係避唔開，所以只可以博盡佢……
　
……而機會，就只有一次。
　
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記得七月頭嘅某一日，因為冇需要外出工作嘅緣故，所以我同無二全日都留咗喺辦公室裡面。就喺我上網搵緊香港近期有冇怪事發生嘅時候，無二突然開聲講：
　
「係喎，話時話你已經喺度做嘢三個月，一般嚟講都算過咗試用期。」
　
「正常嚟講係……但呢度原來會有試用期？」我語帶疑惑咁反問。
　
「冇。」無二行埋去工作台打開其中一個櫃，「只係覺得都三個月，應該係時候俾你學下嘢。」
　
聽完嗰刻我當然係好難以置信，內心又不禁有幾分期待。幾秒後，無二隨手拋咗件嘢過嚟。我順利接實然後望咗眼，有一瞬間仲以為係迷你記事本。但再睇真啲，呢本嘢同我堂哥阿熊平時捲煙用開嘅捲煙紙非常相似。
　
意識過嚟，不禁有一種被潑冷水嘅感覺。
　
「對唔住，」我慢慢放返低本嘢，「我對煙真係冇興趣，何況應承過如初絕對唔會食……」
　
「你諗多咗喇。」無二打斷我，「雖然呢疊嘢係好似煙紙，但其實只係偽裝嚟，用嚟掩飾佢嘅真實用途。」
　
「偽裝？」我不解。
　
「我哋一般叫佢做『萬變紙』。」無二喺櫃裡面拎起另一本，然後好乾脆咁拎出其中一張，再握喺掌心裡面，「萬變紙可以作為一種媒介，變出控制者想要嘅嘢。」
　
說罷，佢慢慢攤返開隻手。就好似變魔術一樣，張煙紙居然喺短短一瞬間就變成一把打火機。
　
「你……」見狀我當然驚訝，「既然可以直接變打火機出嚟，點解仲成日叫我落街買？」
　
「估唔到你係驚訝喺呢個地方。」無二無奈咁講：「我會叫你買，係因為用萬變紙變出嚟嘅嘢係唔會永久存在。長則大半日，短則幾秒鐘就會消失。」
　
可能係佢預先安排好，打火機喺佢講完瞬間就消失咗，亦都冇變返做張紙。
　
「一般嚟講，萬變紙係俾我哋呢行嘅初學者訓練，同埋用嚟評估能力……但只要運用得好，佢絕對可以喺緊急情況派上用場，甚至作為武器咁用。」
　
「作為武器……」我突然回想起第一次見到無二嘅一幕，「唔通，嗰陣你喺無人小巴上面嘅分身就係用萬變紙變出嚟？」
　
「冇錯。」無二點點頭。
　
聽到呢度，我開始有種蠢蠢欲試嘅感覺，好想撕一張出嚟睇下可以變到啲咩。
　
「但講就好似好容易，實際用當然唔係咁簡單，要變出穩定嘅分身更加需要非常高端嘅技巧。」無二彷彿睇穿咗我一樣，「作為初學者嘅訓練工具，萬變紙除咗考驗控制者嘅想像力、臨場反應，同時都好睇自身嘅能力……即係『異能等級』。」
　
「異能等級？」
　
「係一個根據『個人能力』、『潛力』同『影響力』計算出嚟嘅綜合等級──由０到１０級，０最低、１０最高……等我慢慢解釋下。」無二行返去大班椅坐低，「呢個地球差唔多九成以上嘅人都係屬於０至１級，佢哋本身冇任何特殊嘅異能，同奇異或者靈異事件都唔會有任何直接關係，最多都係不幸咁扯上關係……可以話係名乎其實嘅一般人。」
　
雖然無二冇講到，但我估阿熊應該就係屬於呢個等級吧？
　
「之後係２至３級，呢個等級主要分為兩類人，一類人開始會察覺到自己有特別嘅能力──譬如話陰陽眼、靈魂出竅，又或者唔明顯嘅超能力甚至魔法；至於另一類人，就係自身體質較容易遇上各類唔同嘅奇異事件。你嘅前同事阿Fred同華哥，就係分別屬於等級２同３嘅人。」
　
「咁我都係？」我問。
　
「畀啲信心自己，你係再上一階段──4至5級。」無二點著一枝煙，「呢類人多數都識得運用自己嘅特殊能力，對『影子世界』亦都有進一步嘅認識。」
　
影子世界──即係無二平時所接觸嘅，嗰個不為人知，又充滿住神秘同怪異事件嘅世界，亦有人會稱之為「裡世界」或者「地下世界」。
　
「聽落……我好似同呢兩樣嘢都冇緣？」
　
我除咗冇任何特殊能力，對「影子世界」更加係一知半解。
　
「你嘅緣份……係同惡魔有關。」無二吸一口煙之後再講：「阿聰，你要明白一樣嘢，呢個世界受到惡魔詛咒嘅人唔多，喺詛咒下已經屢次生還嘅人更加係少之有少……」
　
「咁都係因為你……」
　
「就算有冇我，你都係注定同扭曲惡魔有密不可分嘅關係……而呢個『因』所帶嚟嘅『果』，就係你嘅『異能等級』無意中咁不斷俾佢拉高緊……以我估計，你而家應該係屬於等級４，只要肯訓練下……話唔埋仲可以再升多１至２級。」
　
「你咁講……係咪即係話我嘅能力都係隻惡魔賦予畀我？」
　
我再一次望向萬變紙，本來嗰種「想試」嘅感覺已經漸漸褪去，換嚟係難以言喻嘅疏離感。
　
「我個人傾向覺得呢個係自然嘅『進化』過程──為咗等你可以繼續生還落去，甚至有對抗惡魔嘅本錢，所以先會出現咁嘅情況。」無二意味深長咁望咗我眼。
　
「聽落……好似突然變到好科學咁。」
　
「跟住係６至７級，呢兩個等級嘅人幾乎都有獨當一面嘅能力，或者係各種領域嘅資深份子……阿杏就係屬於6級，算係業界相當知名嘅結界師。至於你嗰位叫小Ｉ嘅朋友，就應該係屬於第７級。」
　
「而由第７級開始，每上升一級所代表嘅能力、影響力同破壞力幾乎係以幾何級數咁提升。然後每個等級之間幾乎都有個難以跨越嘅障壁……而作為『人類』礙於體質限制基本上最多都係去到第７級。當然，有唔少惡魔同怪異都係身處喺呢兩個等級。」
　
「包括狄陀？」我問。
　
「以我上次嘅觀察，佢應該係屬於第８級。」無二語氣輕鬆咁講。
　
「咁無二你呢？」
　
「我……」佢考慮咗幾秒再繼續講落去：「……同狄陀差唔多。」
　
我聽完有少少愕然。由幾分鐘之前初次認識「異能等級」嘅時候，我仲以為無二肯定係屬於最高嘅一兩級。
　
「如果連你都只係8級……咁上再兩級又會係幾犀利法？」
　
「我會答你，一世都唔知會比較好。」無二冷冷咁講：「我活咗三十幾年人……包括開始接觸怪異到而家十幾年間，剩係遇過兩個屬於9級嘅人，其中一個已經唔喺呢個世上。而另一個人，只要佢願意，係絕對有足夠能力徹底改變呢個世界。」
　
我聽完不禁吞咗啖口水。
　
「至於10級嘅人或者怪異……我好慶幸到而家都未見識過。」
　
之後，係短暫嘅沉默。其實當時嘅我，因為只係單純聽無二講解，所以仲未係好明白到天外有天、人外有人嘅道理。
　
「好……講返萬變紙。」良久，無二重新開口講：「阿聰，我要你而家撕一張出嚟，然後好似我頭先咁樣做……握喺掌心，想像一件想變出嚟嘅嘢。」
　
「吓？」我當然冇諗過話題會變得咁快，所以顯得有啲不知所措。
　
但最後都係照佢說話做，撕走其中一張紙握喺掌心……但到底變乜好？因為太突然，所以腦海裡面同時浮現咗幾種想法──有我好想要但買唔起嘅鏡頭、新初無耐嘅電腦遊戲、一把真正嘅星戰光劍、最後係如初話過想睇嘅……
　
「嘩！？」諗到一半，掌心突然傳嚟灼熱感，我反射性就攤返開手，赫然發現萬變紙居然好似燒過一樣化成灰燼。
　
「你好明顯係有太多選擇，諗得唔夠堅定。」無二一眼就睇穿咗我。
　
「咁係因為太過突然……」
　
「阿聰，你遲早都會遇上突發情況，而嗰個情況隨時係可以攞你命。」無二用銳利嘅眼神望住我，「記住，萬變紙嘅竅門有三個，一係目標要清晰、二係運用想像力、三係對成功嘅渴望……由今日開始，我要你廿四小時都將佢帶喺身上，就好似『赤染』一樣，然後每星期都要練一本……記住有信心先練。呢本嘢睇落雖然細，但絕對係唔平。」
　
「嗯。」我點點頭，「咁我而家係咪可以改叫你師父？」
　
「咪搞。」無二舉起手強烈反對，「一來我受唔起、二來電影都有教……做得徒弟嘅人多數都係會慘死。」
　
「講起上嚟又好似係……」
　
「然後，我會建議你搵如初練習下。」無二不懷好意咁一笑，「因為所有男人都會想喺自己嘅女人面前表現下……當然，你都要小心唔可以穿煲。」
　
「明白。」將萬變紙收埋之後，我突然醒起一樣嘢想問：「係嘞，咁如初係屬於邊個等級？」
　
「0。」無二今次回答得好乾脆，對住窗外呼出灰煙，「無容置疑。」
　
乾脆得令人吃驚。
　
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時間回到現在。
　
「你……」另一個『我』一臉驚訝，係佢根本唔知我有呢著，定冇諗過我會成功？
　
簡單解釋返，我喺關鍵嘅一瞬間，利用萬變紙變出同複製人一模一樣嘅鋸齒刀，成功擋咗佢嘅致命一擊。而且，仲趁住佢驚訝嘅瞬間一腳將佢踢低，令到立場形勢完全顛倒過嚟。
　
其實當時喺「迴想」區第一次見到園長嘅時候，我已經猶豫緊應唔應用呢件秘密武器……好彩最後冇用到，唔係對方可能就會做好應對嘅準備。
　
但講到底，我之所以成功都係多得如初……因為，我同佢之間嘅「經歷」，就算呢個複製人係有記憶，都唔會真真正正嘅明白。
　
「你既然係我嘅複製人，就唔好諗住可以超越我。」呢刻，我彷彿可以體會到無二一直以嚟所做嘅嘢──從容不迫咁面對敵人。
　
無力感、蛻變區、真假無二……呢刻通通都唔再重要。
　
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查良鏞死了，藍潔瑛也死了，今年戊戌，離世的名人很多，但這兩人是不同的。他兩人的命造，常出現在我們的八字紫微課堂上。

查良鏞擁有一個近乎完美的八字，凶星生旺吉星，金木水火土，任何五行對他都有不同作用。

動盪的時代，流離的歲月，貧困的日子，造就了他創作不朽的作品。名滿天下，金錢來了，女人來了。財生官旺，社會地位，權勢影響力，什麼都來了。鄧小平親自接見，視為香港國師，他也自視如此，建議香港九七後的政治模式，推出「雙查方案」。

藍潔瑛是另一個極端，她拿的，是一個糟糕透頂的八字組合。

什麼才是最差的命？

平庸、貧困、孤零、愚蠢、多病，都只是平凡人，一生基層生活而已，你我大部份人都如此。不好，但談不上不幸。

給你貌若天仙，給你才華機會，給你舞台掌聲，給你顛倒眾生，城中公子都想一親香澤。但這些加起來，都不是幸福，而是製造痛苦。

比劫生傷食，傷食又迴剋官殺。任何上天的祝福，都變作人生的詛咒。

愈是名滿天下，愈是多人追求，她的任性、脾氣就會發作，最後傷害的，是男緣和事業。

一生人，只有十年的好運。所謂好運，也只不過是行印星，名滿天下，才華出眾，但印生比劫，比劫生傷，又迴剋官殺……成名，只是等待更大的傷害來臨。

她生前，得到的關懷友誼很少；死後，廉價的同情很多。想盡辦法一親香澤的男人多，給她倚傍，給她幸福，願和她走半生的人，根本沒有。

她不易相處，她亦飽受欺凌。

欺凌她最甚的，不是命運，不是什麼大哥，是新聞界。

對她尤甚於對蔡楓華。

生前，媒體對她用刀，刀刀見骨；死後，將她捧上天空，只是突顯她一生寂寞。

命理中，吉星生旺凶星的表表者。理論上，金木水火土，五行都不能用。

兩個極端的命造，就常常作為我們上課的例子。

一陰一陽之謂道。

宇宙間第一條法則，有陰就有陽，有陽就有陰，幸福背後必有遺憾，愈大的幸福包藏的，必是愈大的傷痛。

查生於1924年甲子年浙江，近代史上最動盪的歲月，成長於日本侵華的時候，抗戰勝利，四五年入上海大公報當翻譯。

如果是太平歲月，他一生就是報社翻譯了。

但抗戰勝利 ，國共又大戰，四九年中共建政，他要避秦香江了。

外省人在香港人浮於事，只能再入大公報，和在左派電影公司當編劇謀生。

微薄收入，他們一家只能租住簡而清的一個房間。

坎坷的歲月，在培養一支名成利就的命運。

五五年，一場比武，白鶴對太極門兩大高手，要擂台決一生死。香港政府不批准，澳門何賢主辦在澳門舉行。香港人追此新聞如癡如醉。新晚報總編見此氛圍，建議兩位同事在報寫武俠連載。

陳文統化名梁羽生，寫《龍虎鬥京華》，查良鏞化名金庸，寫《書劍恩仇錄》。

這就是凶星生旺吉星的最佳寫照。

《書劍》之後，就是《射鵰》。

1959年，單憑兩本書的版稅，他已急不及待，在灣仔和太太朱玫，創辦《明報》，開始《神鵰俠侶》的連載。

平步青雲，金庸神話開始了。

完美的八字組合，凶星生旺吉星的結構，金木水火土可用的五行，大運的配合，但仍有天干合化，不見了通關之神的流年。

四名子女，最寵愛的大兒子查傳俠，七六年在紐約自殺身亡；查遇到了細他三十年的阿May，和朱玫離婚。朱玫和查家任何人斷絕往來，一人獨居灣仔唐樓，在《明報》創業的路段拾荒，最後死於街頭。

她用這個方法對查報復，查家的幸福要帶有她朱玫的淚影。

我和大部份香港人一樣，少年時代都是看金庸小說長大，和看明報社論了解國情。離開學校後，我曾經在他的報館工作，近距離看過他的老闆威嚴和帝王權術。

明報著名人工低，稿費低。

但老闆總有他的看法：

工資，是由市場決定的，
市場價值又基於供求。
人人都想來明報上班，在明報寫稿。
我們每年暑假，都收到幾百封，來自港大中大畢業生的求職信。
我們不需要調整薪金的，
因為，來明報，不是為錢，
是光榮來的…………………

在編輯部，似乎沒有人敢和他說話，包括當時的總編輯潘粵生，都是他召見，他在說，其他人在聽。

不明白的，也不敢問。

除了字房的No.2肥佬翁枝。

每到深夜，只等查生的社論未寫好，翁枝就拿著他版檯用的那鐵尺，在查的房門拍打：

出唔出報紙呀？
係咪唔出喇？
星島喺條街賣緊喇！
唔出報紙了嗎？

王司馬是明報明周的美術主任，他死的那一天，查叫了採訪主任龍國雲（筆名陳非），入他房間。阿龍出來，一言不發，拚命吸著他的煙斗。

不斷噴煙，好一會兒，喃喃自語：
（我在他對面，但他應該不是對我說）
喪禮報館負責。
老闆叫我，看著辦！
看著辦，看著辦，什麼是看著辦？
八千元是看著辦，八萬元是看著辦，十八萬也是看著辦。
其實，老闆想點搞呢？

他喜歡下條子，在編輯部同事的檯面玻璃壓下字條，寥寥幾字，看得懂的跟著執行，看不懂的，猜著執行。反正，沒有人敢問。

他享高齡過世，死後極盡榮哀，有人比擬他為中文世界的莎士比亞。事實上，我們上課時，舉例用金庸小說人物，比用《紅樓》《三國》效果好，幾乎人人都知你說的是誰。

但打過他工的人，很少對他有好感。那些早期高層，當過總編、主編的，多年後見面，像梁小中、韓中璇，說起老查，都是大罵。印象中，只有潘粵生，謹慎，說起查生，他都不搭嘴。

至於藍潔瑛，生前死後，旁人對她的說話，是截然不同的。

世間對她的關愛，諷刺地，由她死後開始。

我在TVB時，正值她艷絕五台山的開始。論古裝，電影王祖賢，電視藍潔瑛。但她不珍惜，那時，鄭裕彤的二公子鄭家成在追求她。

電視台幕後，說起她，都說難搞，無法溝通。

戲劇組的人說，她不看報紙雜誌劇本，嫌油墨骯髒；黑口黑面，遲到，唔想做。

綜藝科的人說，她無腦，叫她上婦女節目，做做宣傳，叫她帶些旅行各地買的東西入廠，說說見聞。她帶了十個八個大小不一的LV皮箱。

娛樂記者說她，好實際。屈男人入時裝店，買一堆衫，什麼尺碼都不理。翌日，車回時裝店，問老闆半價收不收回？

反正，關於她的，從沒有一句好說話。

死後的美語好說話，如果能分一半在生前對她說，那她的人生，是否沒有那麼寂寞？

金庸有一套武俠小說全集傳世，其實，藍潔瑛也不差，《大時代》的玲姐，對著鄭少秋、劉松仁、劉青雲這些高手，一分不蝕。有幾場戲，一直在我腦海中，劉松仁死了，鄭少秋歪理癡情，一堆爛泥的劉青雲，她淒苦無援，連死都好像沒有資格。《西遊記》中的春三十娘，冷艷執迷，眼神鋒利而撩人心魄。可能，這些才是真正的藍潔瑛。

她的真實人生，不懂得表達自己，要通過戲劇角色，將真正自己釋放出來。她的真我一直困在肉體內，她不懂得在俗世生存。

我眼中，藍的才華，不亞於金庸。

2018年11月6日星期二下午5:00
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