【贈書】【好書分享：《活在大漢》&《活在大宋》套書】​
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「穿越到大漢，體驗世井風情遊方趣；轉生至大宋，盡享豪門貴冑買笑去」​
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提及「漢朝」，聯想到什麼關鍵字？大腦依稀浮現國、高中課本的模糊記憶：漢高祖劉邦、漢武帝、文景之治，喜歡稗官野史的朋友可能會憶及善妒的呂后與被做成人彘的戚夫人悽悽慘慘戚戚。教科書上的知識離我們很遙遠，結束學生生涯，再也沾不上邊，曾經死記硬背事件、年表，一問三不知，早早還給老師。​
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老師諄諄教誨讀史應以史為鑑，考盛衰、知興替，然而多數人只為了考試，歷史有趣之處消磨於日復一日。《活在大漢》讓沉睡的死板板歷史躍然而出，以輕快流暢的文字帶領讀者駕時空機穿越回大漢，用現代價值觀瞧瞧漢朝有多「潮」？在沒有冷氣、網路與手機的古代，如何讓生活動起來。​
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穿越守則第一條切記，就算你的夜晚比白天還美麗，夜貓子請好好待在家裡，大漢有宵禁，晚間七點便無法通行，孫叔叔充滿磁性的嗓音提醒：「夜深了，趕快回家吧！」流連街頭夜不眠，官府衙役會親自在牢房留盞燈給你，不妨以此為藉口留宿美男子霍光住所，逮著機會生米煮成熟飯，順便請他哥哥霍去病簽名。​
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次者莫忘漢代禮節繁瑣，謀生求職不可小覷來而不往非禮，拜訪親友記得拎隻風乾野雞，菜過五味方能言事，陳設便餐得右手放羹湯、左手擺乾菜、燒烤置遠，醬料佐近，諸事與禮教文化脫不了關係，處處講究和諧統一，吃飯吃到胃潰瘍，下次乾脆自個兒關廁所吃便當才輕鬆愜意。​
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在漢代謀什麼出路CP值高，作者一併細說分明，誤以為錢多事少離家近想考公務員大錯特錯不要去，不懂詭譎多變政治遊戲規則，休想魚躍龍門，連鹹魚翻身也難。瞧瞧飛將軍李廣建功不易封侯難，小小史官司馬遷御前獲罪遭宮刑，外交使節蘇勿牧羊北海邊羈留十九年。尤其漢武帝在位間，宰相是高風險職業，七人被罷免、五人上黃泉，僅一人得善終，那光明燈不知點了幾百遍。​
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看了書別嚇到倒退三百步掉進井裡面，漢代宮廷流行香薰，妃嬪姬妾視珍奇香料為獲得萬千寵愛的寶貝，王公貴族追求藥效，希冀返老還童，長生不老，調香師靠一手絕活，盆缽滿盈賺個飽；漢樂府發揚光大，宮廷娛樂不能少，人人皆迷金曲K歌這小愛好，通曉音律展現才能變漢朝周杰倫，亦或擔任樂工收集樂曲任君選；再不然加入方士集團，鑽研修仙煉丹、召神劾鬼，把皇帝唬得一愣一愣，然謹記歷史發展，伴君如伴虎，巫蠱之禍前記得收拾包袱趕快逃。​
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本書自社會常識、政治制度、科技文化、娛樂生活、時尚潮流等面向切入，角度新奇、觀點全面，活靈活現呈現漢朝的舊故事、新面貌，融深度學識於幽默談笑，大幅提高可讀性及趣味性，輕鬆讀史不可少，讀後漢代風情於腦中自然展現，有如3D立體畫面，無須懸梁刺骨也能記牢。​
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在漢朝玩了一遭，現在我們穿越至宋朝～​
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宋朝在一般人印象中是國力積弱不振的朝代、匯集內憂外患的朝代，疆域狹小的朝代、重文輕武的朝代，岳飛領十二道厄運金牌而非奧運金牌的朝代。但它也是文藝復興與經濟革命的時代，文化商業教育興興向榮的時代，文人最崇尚的年代，時光穿梭機會大塞車的年代！​
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《活在大宋》以各式各樣鮮活之歷史專題，深入介紹這個富饒美麗的文明，從食、衣、住、行至文藝娛樂，無一不品，讀者可將自身代入時空旅人，一窺宮闈華麗生活下之秘辛，或假想轉生成平民百姓，全方位地觀察、體會活在當代一流大都市之樂趣。​
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例如宋朝戶籍制度流通開放，即便投胎在雞不生蛋的鄉下，亦能透過經商、應試、出差、求職等方式，至輕歌漫舞幾時休的汴梁居住工作，一年期滿，即在當地落戶，化身天龍國人，當然有戶在蛋黃區無貸款的高門大戶帝寶更好，屆時騎寶馬、乘坐轎，風頭一時無兩，比開藍寶堅尼更風光。​
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在經濟昌盛的宋代就業法子多，賺錢機會也不少，首先歡迎你報名大宋公職補習班，宋朝公務員選考限制少，百歲人瑞能報考；社會地位高、一朝中舉人人稱羨；工資福利好，不僅有糧食、衣料各類額外收入和補助，還有大大小小的節日和帶薪假，足夠你一年出國兩次遊，玩樂不忘上工，才能拒絕賄絡引誘，專心為朝廷工作。即日起街頭巷尾揪團報，最高折扣可抵三貫錢，現在報名便送金廢帝完顏亮畫像一禎，鼓勵考生臨陣磨槍不亮也光。​
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不擅讀書，有一技傍身也能闖天下，宋代商業繁榮興盛，瓷器、冶煉、釀酒、造紙、印刷，百業興興向榮，汴梁日夜車水馬龍，餐飲服務業可投入東京城七十二家五星級大酒店，專營官酒販賣，夜夜笙歌不知醉。攢夠了資本，便加盟最著名的白礬樓酒店，全盛時期共有三千家加盟腳店，比五十嵐還多駐點，不妨試著激發創意開發品項，推出酒家新招牌─酒麴加粉圓（結果馬上倒店）。​
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錢賺多不怕沒處花，出遊可逛山水、觀園林、參寺廟，穿有羅裙、百褶裙，趕上裙，頭戴金銀掐絲珍珠冠，身圍紋理如玉通天犀角帶，渴了淺酌蒲中酒、蘇合香，薔薇露，餓了細嚐軟羊麵、私雞麵、炒鱔麵，飯後再來些梨圈、李子旋、林檎乾甜甜嘴。​
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哎喲客官白銀萬兩，要求食精膾細，小店還不先端出只取羊頭兩腮嫩肉的羊頭簽，再上盤肉慾橫流吃珍稀的雙下駝峰角子和雪天牛尾狸，收尾吃風雅則來碗農曆十月割下初綻梅花，在蜜罐中細細封存，隔年夏天才取熱湯泡製的湯綻梅，舌尖上的大宋是五感交織的狂歡饗宴。若仍嘴饞，請至書中一覽，玉盤珍饈、雕欄畫棟、歌舞百戲盡在此書，為你濃縮整整三百年，繁華璀璨的驚喜。​
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【抽獎辦法】如下：​
1、這裡有『三套』《活在大漢》&《活在大宋》套書，要送給網友，有興趣的朋友請在本則動態下『按讚』+『留言』索取。​
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2、留言請告訴我，你穿越至漢朝或宋朝時，最想從事的職業？例如：​
「《活在大漢&活在大宋》：憑我傾國傾城的姿色，看來只能當名妓賣藝不賣身惹～（其實在街頭要飯）」​
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3、活動時間：即日起，至2021/9/19(日)晚上十二點截止，屆時將於粉絲團公布名單。​
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4、請正取得獎者於2021/9/20(一)晚上十二點前，回覆寄件資訊，超過領獎期限未認領者由備取遞補，寄送僅限台澎金馬。​
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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

搭船玩澎湖 澎湖 嘉義五天四夜遊

和大家疫起宅在家己經快一個月了，
三級防疫前的最後出遊就是去澎湖，
最後一遊真的很特別不是搭飛機，
而是先到嘉義入住安蘭居逛了附近
很漂亮好拍的嘉義美術館，隔天一早
再搭客運前往布袋港坐船去澎湖，
因為沒有很多時間所以多半是拍照，
不過最後一段在澎湖花火紀念館是
有和花火節互動的片段影片喔！

以下是影片中的重點介紹和相關文章：

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嘉義入住的安蘭居是一家很溫馨的旅店，
離火車站很近步行約不到十分鐘就能到，
裡面的空間很舒適還有一些復刻的設計，
詳細的內容可以看看我的文章喔！
安蘭居入住分享:
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557545039

晚餐時間吃安蘭居附近一間很網美的店家
叫做舊時光新鮮事，餐點份量足而且很好拍
從湯咖哩到冰品點心都很美味，平日還能泡腳。
舊時光新鮮事美食文章分享：
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557551717

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一早九點的船，我們到了港口過關再搭船，
澎湖這邊的海和天都美到不可思議像畫一樣。
第一站先到偉哥的家民宿
澎湖偉哥的家民宿離市區近/空間寛敞/裝潢新穎
舒服按摩椅/烤肉及烹煮樂趣文章在以下：
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557551693

接著來到知名品牌康倪生技的觀光工廠，
超萌超美而且可以拍很多網美照片，
在這裡可以試用到很多保養品以及吃到
很漂亮繽紛的網美冰沙和霜淇淋及伴手禮
還可以看到二十多種的可愛小丑魚喔！
［澎湖景點推薦］康倪海洋生技丑丑館
免門票/手作DIY課程/粉紅控/網美景點
網美飲料冰品/免費參觀小丑魚文章介紹：
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557545084

下午先至郵局蔥油餅排隊吃美食，
再步行到觀音亭去看美麗夕陽和煙火，
這次很幸運可以看到LINE的聯名煙火。

在澎湖二個晚上我們入住了檸檬草和晴海，
這是新蓋好不久而且空間大又漂亮的民宿，
不只有迎賓茶點還有超好喝的梅子茶～
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557545024

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一早就到了虎井候船室，在南海遊客中心附近，
要搭遊艇出發到很少人去的姑婆嶼及目斗嶼並且
還要出海去做海釣，真的是很有傲的體驗，
海天一色美不勝收，拍了很多很美的照片。

有興趣可以看看妙妙琳的體驗文章，
KKDAY澎湖精選行程
北海跳島一日遊｜大倉嶼、目斗嶼、吉貝
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557551750

晚餐我們回到碼頭剛好可以去吃，
是到碼頭附近吃澎島之星的燒烤，
外表是船形建築旁邊還有海可看
除了吃到飽吃完還可以打卡換冰。
澎島之星燒烤 BBQ分享文章：
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557551768

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這天同樣是安排了一整天在離島的行程，
先到客中心並寄放了行李再搭大船出遊，
去了東吉島看了藍洞並同環遊七美島。

有興趣可以看以下的KKDAY澎湖行程體驗文章
澎湖秘境一日遊-南方四島＆藍洞＆環遊七美島：
http://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/557551735

晚上回到碼頭就步行到附近的喜來登入住，
吃了很好吃的晚餐義大利燉飯和牛肉麵。

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最後一天是到篤行十村裡面，在這裡很好拍
有雨生的家還有潘安邦的家，之前妙妙琳也有
來採訪寫文可以看看喔～
張雨生紀念館
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/316670813

潘安邦紀念館
https://miumiuloveu.pixnet.net/blog/post/316642946

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有在日本生活一年多的遊學經驗。
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