人生話題舊作選
畢加索和安裝工的故事
（本文刊載於新出的《見微知著》一書。寫於多年前的一個故事，在出版《見微知著》之前，又看到了有新發展。事情如羅生門，難知真相。故事前半篇的人性美好，到後續發展，卻發現在爭財爭權爭情慾的人類社會，美好人性似難有容身之地。）
讀到一段畢加索的晚年軼事，讓我感慨不已，也似乎從這故事才看懂了畢加索的畫。
畢加索說過：「我的每一幅畫，都裝有我的血，這就是我畫的含義。」
畢加索在世時，他的畫就賣得很貴。他身邊總有許多人渴望從他那裏得到一兩張畫，那怕是他隨手塗鴉，也夠自己一輩子吃喝不愁了。
晚年的畢加索非常孤獨，儘管他身邊不乏親戚朋友，但他很清楚，那些人都是衝着他的畫來的。為了那些畫，親人們爭吵不斷，甚至大打出手。畢加索很苦惱，他身邊一個能說說話聊聊天的人也沒有。儘管他很有錢，但是買不到親情和友情。即使是愛護他和欣賞他的畫的人，他也無法分辨是真正愛他還是愛他的畫價。
為保護畫作，年逾九十的畢加索請來一個安裝工，給自己門窗安裝防盜網。就這樣，安裝工蓋內克（Pierre Le Guennec）出現在畢加索的生活中。蓋內克憨厚，坦率，沒有文化，看不懂畢加索的畫，在他眼裏那些畫一文不值。畢加索常常將眼瞪得大大看蓋內克，蓋內克給了他豁然開朗的美好。蓋內克雖不懂畫，但他喜歡跟畢加索聊天，覺得老人很慈祥，就像自己的祖父。
陽光從窗外照進來，畢加索看着眼前的蓋內克，就像一尊雕塑，有一種令他暈眩的美。他情不自禁拿起畫筆，給蓋內克畫了一幅肖像。他把畫遞給蓋內克說：朋友，把它收藏好，或許將來你會用得着。蓋內克接過畫，沒看懂，他說：這畫我不想要，要不，你把廚房那把大扳手（港稱士巴拿，spanner）給我吧，我覺得那扳手對我更有用。畢加索不可思議地對他說：「朋友，這幅畫不知能換回多少你要的扳手。」蓋內克將信將疑地收起畫，可心裏還想着那扳手。
蓋內克的到來，一掃畢加索淤積心中的苦悶，他找到傾訴對象。在蓋內克面前，他丟掉了自己的面紗，像孩子一樣跟蓋內克天南地北地交談，高興時還手舞足蹈。
為了跟蓋內克聊天，畢加索一再將工期推遲。與蓋內克說說笑笑是他最大快樂。其間，畢加索又送了許多畫給蓋內克，包括他自己珍愛的作品。他說：「雖然你不懂畫，但你是我真正的朋友，是最應該得到這些畫的人，拿去吧，希望有一天它們能改變你的生活。」
防盜網工程蓋內克竟幹了近兩年。和蓋內克一起，畢加索變得精神奕奕。他又創作出許多作品，是創作的另一高峰期。
工程終於完了，蓋內克告別畢加索又到處打工去了。
一九七三年四月八日，九十三歲的畢加索逝世。他的畫價創出天價。
蓋內克日子過得艱難，他得知畢加索去世，非常悲痛。他回家翻出舊皮箱，把畢加索那些畫拿出來清點，發現共有二百七十一張。蓋內克驚呆了，他知道只要拿出任何一張畫，就可以徹底改變他的生活。看着這些畫，畢加索的音容笑貌浮現，「你才是我真正的朋友！」這句話一遍遍響起。他的眼睛濕潤了。他將畫又仔細地放回皮箱。他沒有對任何人說起這些畫，包括自己家人，他像往常一樣外出幹活。
二○一○年十二月，一個石破天驚的新聞：年逾古稀的安裝工蓋內克將畢加索贈送給他的二百七十一幅畫。全部捐給法國文物部門，價值一億多歐元。有人感到困惑不解，老人擁有這麼多畢加索的畫，為甚麼自己不改善一下生活，要全部捐出來？
蓋內克在回答記者時說：畢加索對我說，你才是我真正的朋友。是朋友我就不能佔有，只能保管。捐出來就是為了讓它們得到更好的保管。
在天堂的畢加索一定為他能有這樣的朋友感到無比驕傲。
自以為懂得畢加索的畫的許多人，其實只是懂得畢加索的畫價。說自己不懂的蓋內克，其實最懂得那些如畢加索所說「都裝有我的血」的畫。
物質的價值，比不上一句「你才是我真正的朋友」。

想不到畢加索和安裝工的故事還有後續發展，而且結局不那麼美妙。
二○一○年蓋內克看到報導說，畢加索死後由於沒有留下遺囑，遺產數目驚人且繼承人關係複雜，掀起的財產爭奪戰空前混亂和慘烈，律師、估價人和公證人幾乎組成了一支軍隊。大家耗時八年，才達成一致。而所有親戚朋友關係都毀了。畢加索的後人爭奪遺產官司提醒了老年蓋內克，他不想兩個孩子將來為這筆財產反目，所以他八月寫信給畢加索兒子克勞德．畢加索（Claude Picasso），說自己手上有大批畢加索作品，想請克勞德鑑定是真跡。
克勞德認定這些畫是真的。但他對蓋內克的解釋起疑：父親把每幅作品看成生命的一部分，不可能送出這麼多。他把蓋內克告上法庭，說他擁有的二百七十一幅畫是偷來的。
為證明蓋內克所言不實，他找了已逝哥哥保羅的子女瑪琳娜和貝爾納，他們自爭產官司後就翻臉不來往三十多年，現在面對巨大財富，幾個人又重新走到了一起。他們絞盡腦汁回憶一九七○年至一九七三年的事情，但沒有獲得一丁點線索。隨後貝爾納找到當時和蓋內克一起參加安裝設備的一個叫洛瑞的工人。洛瑞說：「那段時間，我們非常意外，雖然畢加索有妻子和情人，還有多個孩子，可真正願意和他相處的卻沒有，他看起來是那麼的孤獨，或許我們讓畢加索稀釋了鬱悶，他拿出一兩幅畫給蓋內克作回報，也是有可能的。」
但蓋內克獲贈的是二百七十一幅。他解釋說，畢加索開始時送他一兩幅。有一次，兩人談到了一個檀木箱子，畢加索看到蓋內克喜歡就贈送給了他，回家後，蓋內克發現裏面有大量的畫作，他提出歸還這些作品，畢加索說，既然送出去就不應該收回。
官司纏訟了許多年，初審判決蓋內克罪成，上訴脫罪，2019年終審罪成，維持原判。判罪成的原因，是蓋內克在法庭多次改口供，而且他說他知道自己罹患癌症後，想把這批畫作留給兩個孩子。
故事的結局，對畢加索與蓋內克的友情與人性美好的故事，無疑澆一盆冷水。審判的結果，使人對蓋內克的善良打上問號。看來，在爭財爭權爭情慾的人類社會，美好人性似難有容身之地。但審判結果是否就真的公平？我們是否還應該相信人性中有美好一面？

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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

《向時代，歷史，宇宙說話》疫情中致台灣重大傷病患者

她，She，才四十二歲，兩個小孩，一個七歲，一個五歲。去年七月醫生宣告她得了最惡的乳癌，兩個乳房全部切除，之後進行六次化療：接著一年半持續以人工血管注射標靶藥物治療。她的癌細胞走的是血液，如果轉移，直接到腦部、子宮、卵巢⋯⋯

她的頭髮已經掉光，目前正在進行標靶藥物治療。每次注射之前，她得躺下來，頭部放著冰枕，因為標靶藥物會導致她全身疼痛高燒難耐。

她每次痛苦到極點的時候，總是湧上兩個念頭。一個想死了，解脫：一個是孩子們送她出門至醫院祝福的表情。「媽媽，我愛妳！媽媽，加油！」

總是在淚眼婆娑中，她結束了一切的掙扎，身體的，心理的。

我問她害不害怕感染新冠肺炎？會不會怨怒政府把她排在台灣人口順位近五百萬人次之後？

她的回答：我沒有力氣抗爭，這是老天爺的安排吧。對於我的孩子們，我已盡力為他們活下來。

「但如果這是我的命運，我只能默默接受。」

事實上，她在今年疫情來襲時，知道自己免疫力低下及醫院內感染的風險，已經各寫四封信給孩子們。

第一封信，她若不幸染病。第二封信，她若離世，沒有機會向孩子們道別。

第三封一年後給孩子們的信：對不起，讓你們成為沒有媽媽的孩子，希望孩子永遠記得媽媽的愛，如天上的星星。在黑暗中你們認真尋找，媽媽就在那裡，永遠永遠的陪伴你們。

最後一封信，當他們三十歲時，才能看到。媽媽希望你們長大成人以後，珍惜生命的不容易，在乎身邊的人，若有了成就，媽媽替你們高興之餘，永遠不要忘記比你們困苦的人。

寫完給孩子們的信，她，開始靜靜地過日子。

隔段時間進出醫院，若遇到全身防護衣的醫療人員，向他們鞠躬感謝。她偶爾會聽一些音樂，她說在「文茜的異想世界」廣播節目中，她愛上了Loenard Cohen ，尤其他往生前的那首歌曲：「You Want it Darker」。

而他，He，不到五十歲：他的心臟主動脈三年前剝離，手術沒有完成：目前他的血管瘤已經大到5-6公分，隨時有爆裂死亡的風險。他本來準備五月底動手術，但疫情來了，醫院先是內部感染，醫生只好推遲他的手術。他，希望手術前能打一劑Moderna ，為了避免感染，加上他有血管攻擊史，但依照政府的政策，他年齡太輕，他是重大傷病患者，他必須再等一下，可能幾個月，才有「權利」注射第一劑疫苗。

幾個月的等待，賭的是他的心臟不會破裂，死亡之神會不會抓走他。

不平嗎？

他反而勸我放下。他説：這個世界本來有很多權力構成的悲劇，我們只能臣服於命運。

於是彷佛預見未來的坎坷，他用鋼琴錄下了和天堂的對話。如果有來生，如果有靈魂，他彈奏李斯特但丁神曲，他演繹蕭邦夜曲。那裡有地獄、有天堂、有人間，無論在哪裡，總有一樁又一樁不幸的故事，奏響著命運。

今夜銀河在夜裡流瀉著銀光，那是老天爺為他們流下的淚水嗎？

當我説掌權者沒有理由如此冷漠對待他們時，他們説：文茜事情已了結。 你也是一個病人，平靜吧！

或許他們是對的。或許我的不放棄，才是對的。

在這裡，愛，已撞上生命的礁石，在權力面前，日日沈沒。

所有的苦難，所有的創痛，所有的憂傷，已使社會變得愈來愈沈靜。

我們都漸漸明白了，沒有什麼好驚訝，承認我們不是先進民主人權國家吧！不要再掙扎、不必再論述。

所有的人，最後只能接受國家權力傲慢的審判。

如今審判庭上站著的，已非昔日我熟悉的政治犯，而是台灣重大傷病者，他們有抗癌的鬥志，他們卻可能是無法躲過染疫的疲病之人。

他們不是沒有活下去的渴望，而是沒有力氣再奮戰。他們抗爭的敵人是癌症、是心臟血管疾病，是生命的消亡：他們不是政治的抗爭者。

他們是生命的烈士。

知道他們的故事，我寫了一段文字送給他們：

我流著淚給你們寫信
我在樹林站立，為你們祈禱

假如我能摘下星星
一定把它送給你
假如星星變成疫苗
一定把它送給你

你愛著生命，與疾病度過沒有間隔的時光
就像在湖底裏憋氣，
在疫情蔓延時刻能憋多長就憋多長

你愛著生命，忍受所有治療的煎熬，
難以言喻的疼痛

哦，那不是煎熬，而是為愛而產生的力量

願老天垂憐
願掌權者聽你們的呼吸聲
你們一直沒有淒厲哀號
你們的力氣已經交給了疾病

在愛戀這個世間與看透生死之間，
你們焦著，你們猶豫

空氣裡些許恐懼
生命中隨時出現喪鐘

你們仍愛著，咬牙地忍受著
永不停歇
在黑暗中，渴望一絲絲的曙光。

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戴眼鏡實況的小美可是很稀有的，錯過就不知道要等多久才能看到了哈哈
浮空龍毛茸茸的好可愛，第一次看到他還想說到底是三小呢XD

VOD時間點傳送門
00:05:53 今晚的宵夜
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03:50:37 劇情時間
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⭐Twitch直播公告
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