眾卿許久不見，本宮近日身體不適，一直躺著。昨天決定起床幹點活，倒不是我突然覺醒變勤勞。而是 ... 21 號是我爹的生日。

娘扭傷腰、我不舒服、紐約颶風來臨，在這樣的情況下，爹依然對生日充滿期待。換上一直捨不得穿的新皮鞋，跑大老遠去剪頭髮，繞路買了烏冬麵（上海人過生日習慣吃長壽麵）。

他攙扶著我娘，來我家過生日。在家簡單吃，卻也是我撐著身體煮的飯。一個月前，我在網上買了一批台灣空運急凍海鮮，有白蝦、有石斑魚、有牡蠣。我爹和我一樣都是海鮮控，在台北吃過一次海產後他念念不忘。今晚讓他吃個夠。

爹問：食材應該很貴，讓妳破費。
我答：我的菜金漲了，您別客氣。

「妳爹對生日好執著。我很少見到他會執著一件事，他平日挺隨和的。」班長困惑。

這就是獅子座。一年 364 天都可以隨意過日子，唯獨生日是最特別的存在。

我今天還做了滷肉飯，被全家人稱讚，用的是塔塔的食譜。我長期靠這滷肉飯，籠絡了很多次人心。建議每個容易得罪人的孩子，都學起來。吃人嘴軟，我娘今天沒罵過我一句。這在我家十年才能遇到一回。

爹，生日快樂。未來會越來越好的！想想，紐約市長快卸任了。

PS. 爹的新皮鞋是六年前在台北參加我婚禮時在百貨公司一見鍾情買下的，一直捨不得穿。他喜歡台灣的鞋子、台灣的海鮮、台灣的水果，我看他應該也能適應台灣的薪水。要是他能出生在台灣，會擁有平安喜樂的人生。

【百年修得同船渡，千年修得共枕眠 - 用心的太太與努力的先生】

週六線上講座後，收到很多家長的回饋。在這邊分享一則我很有感的回覆，這位媽媽說：

親愛的羅老師您好，

首先要謝謝老師您昨天精彩的講座，因為老師的專業，再次成功引領我先生走進他冰山下的世界，讓他再次貼近自己，鬆開了觀點，也讓我們家的家庭氣氛再次獲得改變。

昨天，我在會議上有提問孩子經常在被規範時，和爸爸有衝突的問題，其實這個問題最近一直困擾著我（不知道是不是因為疫情停課的關係，親子相處時間變長，父子間因管教產生的衝突也因此增加）。

當時老師問我「爸爸有罵他嗎？」，爸爸回答說「沒有」，此時我那還沒睡著的四歲兒子一聽到，立刻抗議的說「有」。

其實有時爸爸真的沒有罵孩子，但語句可能帶有命令、恐嚇、或威脅，所以孩子聽在耳裡就覺得被否定或不舒服，本能的覺得爸爸罵他。當孩子心裡覺得委屈，他第一個會跑來找我安慰，當我安定時，我可以接住他的情緒，但有時我內心不安定時，心中就會跑出埋怨，覺得先生為什麼不能先放下道理和管教，先同理孩子的感受，不要總向我抱怨兒子找我告狀，在此同時先生也覺得自己很委屈，因為他覺得犯錯的又不是他，為什麼要一直被攻擊。多數時候我不想介入他們的衝突，我不想當仲裁者，因為那很容易讓我陷入選邊站的困境。

前一晚，我又趁著兒子睡著時候，想和他溝通這件事，可是沒談幾句，就談不下去。到最後，先生這麼對我說，他說「我做這麼多努力，都得不到妳的鼓勵，如果生一個小孩會讓人這麼不開心，我情願不要」，我聽到他這麼說，其實覺得很挫折、難過，因為我的想法聽在他耳裡全變成指責和批評，即便我只是想告訴他，當我們用指責、命令的說話方式時，孩子很容易放錯重點，不是去反省自己錯在哪裏，而是在意自己不被愛和肯定。

接著他又告訴我「有時候妳做不好時，我也沒說什麼」，我說「你可以告訴我啊，我很樂意聽到你的發現，因為有時候旁觀者清，而且我也還在學習」，他接著回我說「我覺得這沒什麼好說的」我可以感覺到他的委屈，可是同時我也覺得無力。直到昨晚，聽到老師說「我們沒辦法幫助覺得自己沒有問題的人」時，我才覺得比較釋懷，因為看不見問題，怎麼改變，也許時機成熟，才會出現改變的契機。

而這個改變的契機在昨天晚上真實發生了。後來孩子睡著後，我們一起躺在床上聽完老師的講座，聽完後，他告訴我他覺得心情好多了，也明白一些事，我聽到忍不住笑了，打趣的說「明明老師說的話很多我也有說」，他說第三人講就是不一樣，但我覺得那是因為老師您有深厚的功力，所以才能帶領他看見自己的慣性，同時溫暖他內心那個受傷的小孩（雖然他可能沒發現其實自己的內在小孩有受傷）。

他是一個不喜歡聽課的學生，但他參加您的每場講座總是能認真聽到最後一刻。結束後，我告訴他「你一直很努力，我從沒有懷疑，我跟你溝通並不是想指責、批評你，我只是希望我們可以一起變得更好。唯有你接納自己，才能真正貼近自己，一個總是希望贏得別人肯定的人，很容易覺得委屈。真正的豐盈只有自己能給自己。」他聽完說他明白，謝謝我報名了這場講座。

話說老師最後帶我們做的靜心練習時，我眼淚不由自主的流下來，喉嚨也覺得緊緊的，胸口痛痛的，感覺身體像在告訴我，這一切它都知道，關於我的一切，那些我可以言語，或是無法言語的。而先生他也在老師的引領下，感受到自己從來都是值得的，同時釋放了那些負面情緒。

雖然我不知道下次還會遇到什麼問題，但我相信只要我們願意，一定能繼續看見前方的曙光。（如果烏雲真的太多，就趕快參加老師的講座吧！哈！因為老師總是為我們帶來滿滿的能量，不僅帶我們照見問題，也照見自己）
末祝
闔家平安喜樂！

………….

我回饋給這位媽媽：

你好我是羅老師。

看完你的回饋，我感到很欣慰，替你有一位這麼愛你、這麼努力想讓自己成為更好爸爸的丈夫而高興。

在教養育兒的路上能與先生一起學習，是非常、非常、非常難得的。

「先生為什麼不能先放下道理和管教，先同理孩子的感受，不要總向我抱怨兒子找我告狀」- 我想是因為在絕大部分的生命歷程裡，你先生不曾被「先同理再處理」這般對待過，所以他還沒學會，還沒內化，還沒熟練。

就算跟你們倆是夫妻，我想他也鮮少被你「先同理再處理」地對待；就算你有，我猜想他也感受不到。從何得知呢？從你說『前一晚，我又趁著兒子睡著時候，想和他溝通這件事，可是沒談幾句，就談不下去。到最後，先生這麼對我說，他說「我做這麼多努力，都得不到妳的鼓勵」』中得知。

但他說：「如果生一個小孩會讓人這麼不開心，我情願不要！」這句話是讓我很感動的，因為不知道你是否曉得，這句話代表著他心裡有多在乎你、多愛你啊！這是一個男人表達自己愛妻子的方式，雖然有點隱晦，但我看到他這麼說，真的能感同身受，眼眶都紅了。

你先生真的很愛你。

緣份是很奇妙的，人與人在一起有著他固有的緣份與慣性，有時候很難改變、或許也無法改變。你和先生之間的緣份是夫妻，但並非師生或益友，可以彼此提醒、勸諫。而我跟你們的緣份比較像是老師與學生，所以我講的話你們會接受，但並不代表我們之間的感情，比你們夫妻來得深厚。

當你能體會這番話，我想你就更能對夫妻之間教養的事釋懷了。不是你先生不想聽你的、也不是你說得不夠好，而是你們的之間緣份，並不包含師生這一層關係。

很高興在昨天講座後，你先生有煥然一新、撥開雲霧見青天的感覺。你跟他說我說的話，他覺得很悶；我跟他說同樣的話，他卻覺得心開意朗。我想，這就是緣份，勉強不來。

所以，以後再遇到同樣的事情，你可以生氣他，但請不要責怪他，因為他已經很努力，希望自己做得更好了。你大可關愛他就好，不用再跟他說道理。因為如我在昨天講座上說的，其實他跟孩子一樣，很多道理都懂，只是還沒做到而已。

「百年修得同船渡，千年修得共枕眠」，希望你們能繼續珍惜彼此的美好緣份，一起努力，把孩子的教育做好，把你們的關係經營好。

深深地祝福。

......................

沒想到，我回覆後又收到這位媽媽的回饋，內容更是讓我溫暖：

親愛的羅老師：

謝謝您的用心回覆，而且還很快就給予真誠的回應（老師您要記得休息啊！辛苦了！）。晚上我把您的回覆分享給先生，他也深受感動，難怪我們夫妻倆會被您圈粉（笑），因為從您的文字和話語中，我總可以感受到老師深深的同理。即使當下我不是被您引領對話的那一方，我也會被觸動。

老師的話讓我發現自己的困境，說起來還真是慚愧，我一心想要解決親子問題，想要建立良好的親子連結，卻忽略了枕邊人的感受，也因為自己只想好好同理孩子，卻忘了好好同理先生，所以讓他覺得受委屈。想想自從有了孩子，我好像把全部的心力都放在孩子身上，所以請育嬰假全職帶孩子，不斷吸收育兒的知識，從理解孩子慢慢走上認識自己的路，卻忘了牽著先生的手一起向前走。也許因為孩子沒有帶著原生家庭的課題，所以在我心裡難免會做比較，覺得「為什麼孩子比先生好溝通」，所以我開始會埋怨先生怎麼沒一起跟上自我成長的路，為什麼沒有好好靜心覺察，改變原生家庭帶來的慣性⋯⋯。

謝謝老師，您讓我發現自己在對待先生時，就像是一個沒有耐心的媽媽，不斷比較、抱怨為什麼孩子不能走快一點，卻忘了每個人走路的速度本就不同。面對親密關係，我該做的是同理、陪伴與欣賞，而不是糾正和指導。而這一切的改變也應該先從我自己做起，如果我願意用欣賞、開放的角度看對方時，也許我們都會看見不一樣的風景。

老師說「其實他跟孩子一樣，很多道理都懂，只是還沒做到而已」，我想每個人或多或少都是如此，不過透過老師的靜心練習引領我們明白一件重要的事，就是即便沒有做到，也不代表自己不努力，我們依舊是那個完整且努力的自己。

謝謝老師讓我深切明白一件很重要的事，就是「良好的親子關係建立在安定的家庭氣氛中；良好的家庭關係建立在美好的親密關係裡」。

從今天起，我會學習好好同理與祝福我的另一半。

最後也要謝謝老師給我們的深深祝福❤️

末祝 闔家一切順心：）

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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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明報社評
深圳市近年房價飈升，炒房風潮熾熱，一個新樓盤攪珠中籤動輒也能賺幾百萬，市政府當然不敢忘記中央有關「房子是用來住的，不是用來炒的」指示，也採取過「辣招」去抑制炒樓風，但這些措施始終沒有奏效，其中有市場推動因素，也有政府懶政不起作用的原因。國務院常務副總理韓正上周四專門就房地產長效機制召開會議，指示要「落實城市主體責任」，應該是有所指的。華潤集團下屬的房地產公司在深圳開發的一個樓盤，分期出售，由於地理位置處於創新科技企業集中的南山區，十分搶手，上一期發售出現中籤後轉手即可賺幾百萬元，新一期的訂購超出預售單位的8倍，參與攪珠的要付350萬元人民幣訂金，凍結資金達到339億元。

蘋果頭條
由今年初起一直站在抗疫最前線、幾乎無間斷主持每日430記者會的衞生防護中心傳染病處主任張竹君醫生，上周六（5日）及本周日均請假缺席記者會，由傳染病首席醫生（流行病學）歐家榮代替。張竹君的丈夫、牙醫余岳鋒因患上腦癌，一直在威爾斯親王醫院留醫，有傳他周日早上因病重已在醫院離世。據悉，張竹君的丈夫同樣是醫生，去年證實患上腦癌，已在威院留醫一段時間。早前有傳他病情有點好轉，但其後情況轉差，並進入癌病末期，已未有再在深切治療病房醫治，近日更感染肺炎。上周六張醫生在430記者會召開前約1小時突然請假，臨時由歐家榮代替主持記者會，周日早上開始便傳出張醫生丈夫病逝的噩耗。

東方正論
外防輸入，內防反彈」一直是內地的控疫宗旨，亦十分成功，但隨着近期有數宗從香港輸入深圳及惠州的個案，反映本港疫情仍然處於水深火熱的階段，港府防疫無能，不僅害苦市民，更拖累內地。很可惜，港府沒有知恥近乎勇，防疫仍然半桶水，當中漁護署轄下的香港仔魚市場更被本報踢爆防疫措施形同虛設，魚販和南亞工人不戴罩開工，隨時成為播毒溫床。香港仔魚市場由魚類統營處管理，統營處處長則由漁護署署長兼任。港府宣布周五起將提高違反禁聚令的定額罰款，由2,000元倍增至5,000元，企圖寓禁於徵，還未知成效如何，魚市場卻率先犯禁。

星島社論
新冠肺炎肆虐全球近一年，近日終漸出曙光，全球多國研發疫苗紛報喜指疫苗的保護率逾九成，遠高於美國食品及藥物管理局所要求的五成。一直跟進疫苗供港的政府專家顧問、中大呼吸系統科講座教授許樹昌直言，即將年底前面世的美國莫德納（Moderna）及輝瑞兩款疫苗因研發技術關係，須分別存儲於攝氏負二十至七十度，惟香港缺乏相關大型儲存及運輸冷凍設備，應用於本港存在極大技術困難，料本港須剔除該兩款率先面世的疫苗，估計首批到港的疫苗將為牛津大學、俄羅斯「衛星V」或內地疫苗。他又預料，本港最快明年第二、三季接種首批疫苗，料二二年底完成全民接種，意味「抗疫馬拉松」目前僅跑完三分一。

經濟社評
冬至和聖誕佳節將至，不少市民正籌謀如何過節，但疫情爆發可能打亂大家的部署，有公共衞生專家更呼籲大家要過一個安靜的聖誕。愈來愈多研究指家庭聚會風險被低估，大家切勿為應節而開派對聯歡，以免成為另一個爆疫源頭，增加控疫難度，令這場抗疫馬拉松跑極也跑不完，一切應以親友安全為大前提。政府專家顧問袁國勇昨天在電台表示，市民今年要過一個安靜、心裏有喜樂的聖誕節，切勿到酒吧和食肆慶祝，因除低口罩，整群人一定會出事。袁國勇的警告並非危言聳聽。首先，根據過往經驗，疫情短時間無法受控。第二波疫情用了25天才漸受控，第3波疫情卻花上80天時間才緩和下來，一波比一波的控疫時間長。

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