「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

今天是漢傳佛教裡的韋陀菩薩聖誕(農曆六月初三)，我本來有畫一個全身穿科技盔甲的韋陀聖像，但看起來太像鋼彈我就決定重新畫一張來送給菩薩當生日禮物。

而找了一下資料，發現韋陀菩薩有一說是當初翻譯時抄寫錯誤，本來是室建陀，寫成室違陀，最後簡稱為韋陀，另有一說是室建陀與韋陀是兩個不同的護法神，相傳韋陀菩薩是南方增長天王屬下八大神將之一，位居32員神將之首。

但我個人還是比較偏向翻譯誤寫這方面的說法，所以來說說 室建陀 Skanda 梵語स्कन्द的相關故事。

室建陀，又稱鳩摩羅（意譯童子）、迦絺吉夜（意譯六面子）、善梵、穆如干（murugan，南印度的叫法），印度教的神祇，為濕婆神與恆河女神的兒子，是智慧之神與財神象神的兄弟，形象是一名俊俏挺拔的少年，也是天兵統帥。

來說說室建陀的故事：

在很久遠以前，阿修羅王多羅伽透過虔誠的苦行，感動了梵天，得到了梵天的降福，享有非常勇猛的武力。多羅伽曾向梵天許願，希望能夠百戰百勝。

梵天技巧性地答應：「除了濕婆的兒子，你可以百戰不敗。」

多羅伽很高興，因為濕婆神的妻子娑提自殺以後，濕婆進入苦修閉關，不再娶妻，也沒有兒子。

後來，多羅伽率領部將，侵略了提婆神的天界，天界危殆，甚至連大神毗濕奴都沒法將他消滅，戰事僵持了兩萬年。

眾神向梵天祈禱，梵天卻說：「多羅伽修練苦行有成，已經得到我的祝福，要打敗他，去找到濕婆的兒子。」

雪山神女是濕婆神妻子娑提的轉世，眾神只好希望濕婆能娶雪山神女，並且生一個兒子，來拯救天國。

就請愛神伽摩出馬，濕婆神自知其道行甚高，卻莫名其妙有意亂情迷的現象，發現了這是伽摩搞鬼，於是從額上之眼發出神火，將伽摩毀滅。後來才將伽摩復活，不過從此，伽摩就失去了形體，故被稱為「無形之神」。

雪山神女為了感動濕婆神，進入苦行，濕婆神被打動，又化身為婆羅門前去試探，發現雪山神女非常堅定，終於娶了雪山神女。

兩人婚後生下了室建陀，室建陀取得了因陀羅的天兵天將部隊，擊敗了多羅伽，恢復了天界的和平，也從此成為天兵天將的大元帥。

而古印度有兩本書，一個是《摩訶波羅多》還有一個是《羅摩衍那》，這兩本書大概距今2300年到2500年，講述了一個公元前一萬年左右的戰爭，但是它描寫的內容特別不像古代石器時代的戰爭，而是像現在的核戰爭，其中書中的因陀羅箭特別像原子彈，這個因陀羅箭從天下來時就是一個特別亮的火球，就像一萬個太陽那麼亮，威力讓人瞬間蒸發，太陽都移動了，各方面的描寫都很像原子彈。(這段老高也提到過)

所以不知道當時室建陀掌握了因陀羅的天兵與武器時，有沒有包括這個因陀羅箭？

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室建陀則被稱為戰神，從一個故事裡也能得知祂的個性，祂與象神是兄弟，某日濕婆神與雪山女神叫來二子。

濕婆神跟兩子說道：「我年紀也大了，想把我掌管的世界傳給你們其中一個...我想了半天，不如就讓你們兩人來比賽，誰贏我就傳給誰！」

「比什麼？比什麼？」擅戰武勇的室建陀興奮的問著，甚至開始暖身起來了。

「就比...誰能最快的繞世界一圈，誰就能統治這個世界！」濕婆神指著自己掌管的世界說道。

室建陀聽完，刷的一聲狂奔而去，
祂如電一般飛快，很快就看不見他的車尾燈。

而象神則緩緩的起身，緩緩的小碎步，
邊跳舞邊繞著濕婆與雪山女神一圈。

「你在幹嘛？？你哥都快跑一半了...」
濕婆對象神此舉很疑惑。

「拔～麻～你們就是我的世界呀！」
象神微笑瞇起眼。

於是，象神獲得世界！

也成為印度最受愛戴的迎的智慧之神。

我們也能從這個故事看出室建陀的個性就是非常直、行動派、充滿野心，我猜有可能是火象星座？

而後來佛陀與室建陀相遇，在金光明最勝王經第八卷，大辯才天女第十五之二裡面有一段寫著：

「南謨佛陀也！南謨達摩也！南謨僧伽也！南謨諸菩薩眾、獨覺、聲聞一切賢聖！過去現在十方諸佛，悉皆已習真實之語，能隨順說當機實語，無虛誑語，已於無量俱胝大劫常說實語，有實語者悉皆隨喜；以不妄語故，出廣長舌能覆於面，覆贍部洲及四天下，能覆一千、二千、三千世界，普覆十方世界，圓滿周遍，不可思議，能除一切煩惱炎熱。敬禮敬禮一切諸佛如是舌相，願我某甲皆得成就微妙辯才，至心歸命。

「敬禮諸佛妙辯才，　　諸大菩薩妙辯才，
　獨覺聖者妙辯才，　　四向四果妙辯才，
　四聖諦語妙辯才，　　正行正見妙辯才，
　梵眾諸仙妙辯才，　　大天烏摩妙辯才，
　#塞建陀天妙辯才，　　摩那斯王妙辯才，
　聰明夜天妙辯才，　　四大天王妙辯才，
　善住天子妙辯才，　　金剛密主妙辯才，
　吠率怒天妙辯才，　　毘摩天女妙辯才，
　侍數天神妙辯才，　　室唎天女妙辯才，
　室唎末多妙辯才，　　醯哩言詞妙辯才，
　諸母大母妙辯才，　　訶哩底母妙辯才，
　諸藥叉神妙辯才，　　十方諸王妙辯才，
　所有勝業資助我，　　令得無窮妙辯才。」

上面提到的塞建陀天就是室建陀唷！

而至於室建陀是如何跟佛陀結緣，為何變成佛陀大護法的呢？有一段記載是這樣描述的。

室建陀天信仰最早起源於南印度和斯里蘭卡的泰米爾人，後來傳到整個印度。

斯里蘭卡自古奉祂為守護神，釋迦牟尼佛曾三次到斯里蘭卡，室建陀天在這時皈依了釋迦牟尼佛，成了佛教的護法。

另相傳釋迦牟尼佛涅槃後，有羅剎將釋迦牟尼佛的舍利子搶回去供奉，多虧善於行走的室建陀天奮力追奪回來。

在唐密的胎藏界曼荼羅中，祂是外金剛部院205天之一，名為鳩摩羅天。藏密《聖妙吉祥真實名經》則說六面童子是文殊菩薩的忿怒化身。

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在漢傳佛寺門口，幾乎都會有一尊韋陀菩薩聖像，這尊聖像不同的姿勢也暗藏不同的暗號唷，分別如下。

據《鑄鼎余聞》記載：「合掌捧杵者，為接待寺，凡遊方釋子到寺，皆蒙供養。按其杵據地者則否，可一望而知也。」

意思是，若門口韋陀聖像的降魔杵是扛在肩上，表示大寺廟，可以招待掛單的僧人免費吃住三天；如果降魔杵平端於手，表示中等規模的寺廟，可以招待僧人免費吃住一天；如果降魔杵指向地面，則表示小寺廟，無法招待雲遊到此的僧人免費吃住。

而民間則流傳一則韋馱與花神的一段愛情故事，故事如下：

話說曇花原是一位花神，她每天都開花，四季都燦爛。她還愛上了每天給她澆水除草的年輕人。後來，此事給玉帝得知。

於是，玉帝大發雷霆，要拆散鴛鴦。他將花神抓了起來，把她貶為每年只能開一瞬間的曇花，不讓她再和情郎相見，還把那年輕人送去靈鷲山出家，賜名韋陀，讓他忘記前塵，忘記花神。

多年過去了，韋陀果真忘了花神，潛心習佛，漸有所成。而花神卻怎麼也忘不了那個曾經照顧她的小夥子。她知道每年暮春時分，韋陀總要下山來為佛祖採集朝露煎茶。

所以，曇花就選擇在那個時候開放。她把集聚了整整一年的精氣綻放在那一瞬間，希望韋陀能回頭看她一眼，能記起她。

可是，千百年間過去了，韋陀一年年的下山來採集朝露，曇花一年年的默默綻放，韋陀始終沒有記起她。直到有一天，一名枯瘦的男子從曇花身邊走過，看到花神憂鬱孤苦之情，便停下腳步問花神：「你為什麼哀傷？」。

花神驚異，因為凡人是看不到花神的真身。如果是大羅金仙頭上有金光、如果是妖魔頭上有黑氣、如果而凡人頭上是無任何靈光。

剛剛從身邊走過的明明是一個凡人，如何看得見自己的真身。花神猶豫片刻，只是答到：「你幫不了我」。又默默等待韋陀，不再回答那個男子的話。

40年後，那個枯瘦男子又從曇花身邊走過，重複問了40年前的那句話：「你為什麼哀傷？」

花神再次猶豫片刻，只是答道“你也許幫不了我”。枯瘦的男子笑了笑離開。

再40年後，一個枯瘦的老人再次出現在花神那裡，原本枯瘦的老人看起來更是奄奄一息。當年的男子已經變成老人，但是他依舊問了和80年前一樣的話：「你為什麼哀傷？」。

曇花答道：「謝謝你這個凡人，在你一生問過我3次，但是你畢竟是凡人，而且已經奄奄一息，還怎麼幫我，我是因愛而被天罰的花神。」

老人笑了笑，說：「我是聿明氏，我只是來了斷80年前沒有結果的那段緣分。花神，我只送你一句‘緣起緣滅緣終盡、花開花落花歸塵。」

說完老人閉目坐下。時間漸漸過去，夕陽的最後一縷光線開始從老人的頭髮向眼睛劃去。老人笑道：
「
曇花一現為韋陀，這般情緣何有錯，
天罰地誅我來受，蒼天無眼我來開。」

說罷，老人一把抓住花神。

此時的夕陽正好滑到了老人的眼睛，老人隨即圓寂，抓著花神一同去往佛國去。

花神在佛國見到了韋陀，韋陀也終於想起來前世因緣。佛祖知道後准韋陀下凡了斷未了的因緣。

曇花一現，只為韋陀。所以，曇花又名韋陀花。也因為曇花是在夕陽後見到韋陀，所以曇花都是夜間開放。

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以上單純是一段故事，所以就當個浪漫故事看看，真的可以拍成電影呢！

好了，說了這麼多，就是想跟室建陀、韋馱護法菩薩說聲：「生日快樂！希望您一切大願都能實現！謝謝您！」

你呢？你喜歡上面那一段故事呢？

(我自己很愛象神那段XD)

#亞特蘭提斯 #透明人 #天使和惡魔

各位大家好，歡迎來到HenHenTV的奇異世界，我是Tommy
如果大家有看完亞特蘭提斯的影片，就會知道裡面所提到的透明人，那究竟是誰創造出透明人呢？那創造出蜥蜴人的原因又是什麼呢？這裡謝謝HenHenTV的觀眾，志光所提供的資料，如果你是第一次看我的影片，我影片的主題主要是一些稀奇古怪，靈異，外星人UFO或是一些科學無法解釋的事件，如果你也喜歡這些題材，歡迎你訂閱HenHenTV。

好！我們開始吧！

這集。。。。就當是亞特蘭提斯的前傳吧！大家先以一個開明和非主觀的態度去觀看這個影片，或你也可以當作科幻小說來看待。在很久以前，我們的宇宙起初只有最高次元九次元上帝（大梵天王）一人，但是祂也希望有子民來愛戴和陪伴，於是祂就創造出最初的一群生命體，就是八次元的梵輔天神：分別是階級最高的七大天使：

Uriel烏列爾，Raphael（拉斐爾），Raguel（拉貴爾），Michael（米迦勒），沙利葉（Sariel），Gabriel加百列和Remiel（雷米爾），

以及階級第二高的熾天使（火紅色的六翼天使），

祂們負責天地的種種事物，當人手不夠，上帝又用念力製造了在七大天使之下的九品天使，那其中一個熾（Chi）天使（熾天使的君主）叫路西法Lucifer，因為祂覺得自己和上帝擁有一樣的智慧和力量，可以取代神，加上種種心理面黑暗處令祂叛變，成為了墮落天使，牠帶領三分之一叛變的天使，一起向上帝宣戰，從此天界一分為二，黑暗和光明，產生了天界和魔界兩個世界。在創世紀裡面，就兩句話就帶過來：神說：要有光，就有光，神看光是好的，就把光暗分開了，神稱光為晝，稱暗為夜，有晚上，有早晨，這是第一天。黑暗和光明永遠都是相輔相成的東西，這是宇宙一開始的法則。而墮落天使路西法，在魔界稱王，在魔界裡面佛教稱之為阿修羅界，而牠路西法就是阿修羅王。那這些宗教故事和蜥蜴人有什麼關聯呢？

以我們一起的影片來把他們鏈接在一起，天界就是位於銀河系以外的仙女座星系，而上帝就是仙女座之王，最高次元九次元的生命體，而七大天使和熾天使則是八次元的仙女座善良的生命體。而一般的天使平民，則是七次元的仙女座的生命體。那蜥蜴人就是有黑暗之王的路西法和其他邪惡的生命體，被上帝（仙女座議會的長老）逐出仙女星系，到我們銀河系當中的獵戶座星系裡面，牠們除了蜥蜴人外，還有一些邪惡的生命體，也在獵戶座星系裡面。在那個時間點，仙女座議會的長老，也就是上帝，製造了第七次元的透明生命體--透明人，用來管理第七次元以下的世界。在同個時間點，路西法因為驕傲想取代上帝，牠的黑暗能量充滿在仙女星系下的星雲之中，那時，由於不堪這種邪惡可怕的黑暗力量的透明人，只好將這些黑暗力量拋出，成為了獵戶星雲，也就是魔界的起源（開端）。

那問題來了，全能的神為何叫透明人消滅牠們呢？還讓牠們在第四次元的獵戶星系裡面出現？像之前說的一樣，當萬物創造的起源，原是有黑暗和光明，這是不變的法則，連上帝也無法改變的定律。這兩種光明和黑暗的勢力必須相輔相成，才可以讓參與終極靈性進化的人們，體會善惡，正邪的差別性，才能超越二元對立，成為具有一個平常心的人。那怎樣去解釋比較好呢？我用個最簡單的例子，假設你沒有被黑暗誘惑過，你哪裡會有更堅決正義的心？
很多人說上帝是萬能的，但我來問你們一個問題，如果上帝是萬能，那祂可以預測未來，對嗎？

如果祂能預知未來，那你現在的選擇都不是你的選擇。。。。因為無論如何，你都會像預知未來的劇情在進行。所以我說你的選擇不是你的選擇。

那如果你說祂不是預測未來，那祂就不是萬能的。我並沒有半點不敬畏神的意思，我只是想用以上的例子去解釋黑暗光明共處的道理，它的法則，天地的自然法則和定律，是上帝創造出來的，但是條件就是即使是祂也不能任意更改法則，這就是宇宙的根本。
那很多人會問，究竟路西法撒旦在哪裡呢？其實這個宇宙存在著不變的法則，善惡總有報，在他第一次帶來墮天使向天界發動戰爭時，他的靈體就被囚禁在第七次次元的天牢裡面，這個就是最初的地獄或者稱之為天界的地獄。

但是當他受完天獄裡面的種種酷刑後，他仍舊在他的潛意識裡面，隱藏著復仇，自大，憎恨，發動戰爭種種的可怕心機。
上帝是擁有大愛的神，即使是墮落天使路西法，他那麼的邪惡，他也想去拯救他，派米迦勒大天使，和路西法到第六次元的天琴星，也就是我們人類的起源星球上，兩人以雙胞胎的形式出生，希望借助第八次元的米迦勒大天使，可以感化路西法心中黑暗的能量。由於在米迦勒大天使的指引下，他在天琴星上屢屢建功，創造了天琴星文明的璀璨科技和文明。但是在那一世死後，路西法的潛意識的仇恨，黑暗又再一次爆發，成為了第二次向仙女座的戰爭。

但是邪不勝正，他再一次敗了下來，於是上帝和米迦勒就把他送去第六次元的天狼星，讓他學習愛，光明和和平的意識，但是撒旦只有越來越墮落，由於他過人的智慧和力量，讓他聯合獵戶座的爬蟲類外星人，組成獵戶帝國（光明會是它創造的），一起向第六次元的天琴星，7到9次元的仙女星系發動無數次的戰爭。雖然每一次都戰敗，但是他要取代上帝的心沒有熄滅過。

經過很多世界，他在不同的星系及星球轉世，也發動了無數次的戰爭。即使是過了那麼多年，上帝還是希望撒旦可以返璞歸真，改過向善，因為他始終還是上帝最喜歡、把他當成自己的寶貝孩子的熾天使之一，在米迦勒眼中，他是他最愛的兄弟。

宇宙的大愛不是去消滅黑暗來證明光明，因為光明和黑暗本來就是從未改變過的恆定頻率的一直永恆狀態，在這種狀態之中，無論是宇宙的任何生物，包括邪惡和善良的，都被上帝的大愛包圍，這就是上帝最偉大的內在，永恆不變的愛。