「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

就在今天！ 【觀世音菩薩千秋】好運贈言
今天3/12是農曆二月十九「觀世音菩薩佛誕」，是拜觀音的隆重佛節。這天可一心觀想「觀世音菩薩」，口念七字名號『南無觀世音菩薩』，為自己消災解厄。老師特地到廟里為各位艾粉祈福、還願，祝愿大家平安健康。也向菩薩求了幾個贈言詩。現在我們就一起來看，觀世音菩薩要為你帶來什麼好運吧。

Q：請依你的直覺，在下圖中選一個你最喜歡的幸運物。
A、招財貓
B、如意結
C、幸運餅
D、紅燈籠
E、紅紙扇
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A、招財貓
第96籤【上上】錢入口袋
巍巍寶塔不尋常，八面玲瓏盡放光
勸汝志心勤頂禮，天龍擁護降千祥
詩詞寓意：你最近看起來特別不一樣，容光煥發，像是有什麼好事即將發生。趕緊參拜神佛，為你加持，好讓你心想的事都能夠順利成真。
近期因為疫情影響，讓你工作不順利、口袋無進財，觀音要跟你說，不要慌張，你的財運要來了。因為近期都待在家裡，所以你沒事就關心股市、投資理財信息；或是正為了想要轉換跑道，而收集了一些近期比較炙手可熱的項目，準備著手去辦。你就放膽去做吧！近期財神爺一定會找你。
在這樣特別的日子裡，收到這則詩籤，更讓人充滿希望，願你與家人丶朋友財源滾滾！

B、如意結
第22籤【上吉】珍貴友誼
四郊田畝皆枯竭，久旱俄然三日霖
花果草芽具潤澤，始知一雨值千金
詩詞寓意：這陣子困擾你許久的問題，終於渴望得到答案。就如同一場及時雨，灌溉了大地萬物，所有事物都得到了珍貴的滋養。
近期因為防疫的關係，你有多久沒有沒有見到好朋友了呢？近期是一個適合跟親友、閨蜜聯繫的時刻，不管你們的距離有多遠，無論你們多久沒有見面，只要一通電話、一封簡訊，就能讓對方感到窩心，也能重新連接你們心的距離。你也能透過這個聯繫知道對方過的順利平安，讓你很是放心。
在這樣特別的日子裡，收到這則詩籤，更讓人充滿希望，願你與朋友平安順心！

C、幸運餅
第01籤【大吉】否極泰來
天開地闢結良緣，日吉時良萬事全
若得此簽非小可，人行中正帝王宣
詩詞寓意：目前正是一個千載難逢的好機會，天時地利人和，所有對你有利的條件你都具備了。這支簽就是萬中選一，貴人正等著幫扶你。
最近新聞每天都播報著一些聽了讓人難過、生氣的事情，連帶的影響你的心情與情緒，你也很擔心自己未來可能會受到影響而產生變化。但是不要灰心，近期你所煩惱的事，都會否極泰來了，事情似乎漸漸都有好的跡像出現。把握時運，想做的事情可以試著踏出去看看，會有貴人來提攜。
在這樣特別的日子裡，收到這則詩籤，更讓人充滿希望，願你與朋友互相成為彼此生命中的貴人！

D、紅燈籠
第04籤【上吉】健康平安
菱花鏡破復重圓，女再求夫男再婚
自此門閭重改換，更添福祿與兒孫
詩詞寓意：搞砸了的事能回復原貌，遇到不好的事能再次和諧。當你決定改頭換面之後，一切又是新的開始，失而復得，東山再起。
近期因為一直悶在家裡，就算身體沒病痛，心裡也覺得鬱悶了起來。但是不要太過擔心，近期健康運勢將會有大大的改善，心靈上的煩躁積鬱，都將消除，最主要是因為你自己的心態改變了，因為你變的正向、積極，開始懂得順其自然，不再糾結過去、苛責自己，因此身體自然也就跟著健康起來。
在這樣特別的日子裡，收到這則詩籤，更讓人充滿希望，願你與家人丶朋友，都能健康平安丶煩惱消除！

E、紅紙扇
第42籤【上上】貴人相助
君垂恩澤潤無邊，覆禱祈禳沒黨偏
一切有情皆受用，均霑樂利得周全
詩詞寓意：由於你的無私奉獻，對待每一個人沒有絲毫的偏頗，使得身邊的朋友都能得到受益，現在佛祖將保佑你，心中所想的事，都有所成。
近期有些企業、學校，都漸漸復工、復學，你將會迎來滿滿的貴人好運，利於你往後的人脈發展，人際關係大旺，並且能夠化解小人來惡意攪局。無論是還在求學的學生或是已經出社會在職場上的小白領，都可以得到身旁同學、朋友丶同事的幫扶，做事丶做決定容易得到大家的認可與賞識。
在這樣特別的日子裡，收到這則詩籤，更讓人充滿希望，願你與家人丶同事否極泰來！

六月份台北大型問事座談會（現場可問事）
🌈台北場🌈
6月16日(日)下午1:30 - 下午4:30
地點：台北劍潭青年活動中心 集賢廳

台南場：6/22台南勞工育樂中心
台中場：6/23救國團 力行路上

🌹特別活動🌹
凡於活動現場購書兩本，即可以得到普陀山祈願卡一張，您當場將祈願卡書寫完畢之後，交給工作人員，我們會請菩薩加持大家的普陀山祈願卡，於6/17帶回到普陀山去
在普陀山蓋上大悲念力金光
做祈願回向法會。
祈願卡數量有限

🎪特別提醒🎪
別忘了來領取端午節菩薩加持的香包喔！排隊領取即可

❤️特別活動❤️
於大型座談現場購買新書兩本，
就可以獲得「觀音心咒平安琉璃」一個（四選一）
「觀音心咒平安琉璃」
菩薩將根據個人生辰加持專屬的「觀音心咒平安琉璃」
正面有觀音心咒六字箴言，
背面有念轉運就轉，還有普陀山南海觀音法輪
轉動法輪，能量無窮盡
「觀音心咒平安琉璃」有四種，各有不同作用與使用方法
大家可以參考下列文章與圖片介紹，選擇自己最需要的
1工作事業貴人運旺（棕黃藍）：
保佑工作事業順利，增加業績，貴人多，防小人，
放或掛在辦公室，亦可放在辦公桌抽屜內，
或是隨身攜帶，有利於工作順利職場得意，
增強工作運，減少挫折阻礙。
2鎮宅家運財源廣進（棕黃綠）：
此「觀音心咒平安琉璃」可以鎮宅擋煞氣，
可放於家中煞氣處，或是有路沖其他沖煞的地方，
可擋煞氣，改變家中磁場，提升家運
放在家中客廳或房間，可鎮宅，提升財運
3身體健康穩定磁場 元氣滿滿充電器（藍黃綠）：
穩定個人磁場，不被沖煞，阻擋冤親債主干擾
保佑身體健康，「觀音心咒平安琉璃」可以成為元氣滿滿充電器
當你遇到挫折或是心中難過受苦
需要正向能量時，恭請菩薩九句，
可以元氣滿滿提升自己的好能量，
就像是跟菩薩連接了充電器一般
（常常有負面能量憂鬱與鑽牛角尖者最適合）
4消災除厄保平安（綠黃藍）
消除災厄，去除不好的穢氣，導正磁場
保佑行車安全，保平安，
可掛於車上、鑰匙上保佑行車安全
也可隨身攜帶保平安

購書之後，領取紅包袋，寫上個人生辰姓名連絡電話
我們會將你的「觀音心咒平安琉璃」帶至普陀山請菩薩加持
進行祈福法會之後
再帶回台灣給大家，專屬加持，活動現場數量有限，送完為止
（網路購書也有此活動，不過數量較少，另外公布）
光采文化網站
www.loveclass520.com.tw

🌈活動內容：🌈
心靈成長 菩薩上課 每月功課
恭請菩薩
現場問事

🎉活動ㄧ🎉
現場購買新書「菩薩心語4」+任一本書，即為新書套書
即可以選擇下列一個選項，一套選擇一個，兩套選擇兩個，以此類推
開運結緣物如下：
1開運納財進福掃帚
2豬年開運紅包（限量）數量已剩不多，
依現場為主
3黃金萬兩發財寶盒
4觀世音菩薩無量光隨身庫錢
（不存入銀行，只能隨身攜帶）
5 菩薩平安福籤（限量）菩薩新春給你的籤文，鼓勵或一句話
6小金福袋（內有黃色祈願卡）
7發財金算盤
8菩薩玉佩
9菩薩水晶
10登記line問事
11收驚
12財神爺招財卡
13前世今生座談會
14現場問事
15 菩薩給你的一段話：菩薩會根據你最近發生的事情，給你一段話，鼓勵你，或給你建議，把握機會，名額有限！
16 菩薩靈籤
17藥師佛御守（身體健康）
18問事座談會
19下半年注意事項與運勢

🌹🌹🌹購書三本，可以選擇「普陀山觀音菩薩項鍊、寶瓶菩薩項鍊、彌勒菩薩項鍊」（三選一）

🎉活動二🎉
凡於活動當天，於現場購買光采文化任何書籍一本，即可選擇下列開運物結緣
1.菩薩眼淚💧琉璃珠
2.平安玉扣
3. 菩薩錦囊
4.財神爺發財錢袋（記得錢袋外面寫上自己的名字）
5. 豬年開運轉運隨身寶物（內有新春隱藏版）
6. 福滿財
7.平安小玉扣兩個

上述選項擇一，發完即截止。
若是購書兩本可以選擇兩種，三本選擇三種，以此類推。
請大家自備購物袋。
🌈
菩薩眼淚琉璃珠
💧透明眼淚琉璃珠
不要悲傷 不要流淚
菩薩收起你的苦
化解災厄 得到快樂
💧紅色 代表增長智慧 考試運旺
開啟好運 提高升職升官機會
💧黃色 財運旺 補財庫
幫助度過經濟危機 增加業績
💧深綠 給缺乏自信、缺少好運的人
🍀增強信心 做事順利 增加貴人運

#老師的馬卡龍在現場有喔
#觀音心咒平安琉璃所剩不多
#菩薩給的一段話超感人
#想知道此刻的課題一定要來參加
#想要得到菩薩的鼓勵
#子容老師座談會
#觀音心咒平安琉璃
#六字箴言
#念轉運就轉
#提升家運鎮宅很重要
#身體健康去除災厄
#還是要吃馬卡龍

另外
已開放網路購書
光采文化網站
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大昭寺是西藏現存最輝煌的吐蕃時期的建築，也是西藏現存最古老的土木結構建築，開創了藏式平川式的寺廟布局規式。大昭寺融合了藏、唐、尼泊爾、印度的建築風格，成為藏式宗教建築的千古典範。西藏的寺院多數歸屬於某一藏傳佛教教派，而大昭寺則是各教派共尊的神聖寺院。西藏政教合一之後，「噶廈」的政府機構也設在大昭寺內。活佛轉世的「金瓶掣籤」儀式歷來在大昭寺進行，1995年，十世班禪靈童轉世的金瓶掣籤儀式也是在這裡舉行的。藏族人民有「先有大昭寺，後有拉薩城」之說，大昭寺在拉薩市具有中心地位，不僅是地理位置上的，也是社會生活層面的。環大昭寺內中心的釋迦牟尼佛殿一圈稱為「囊廓」，環大昭寺外牆一圈稱為「八廓」。以大昭寺為中心，將布達拉宮、藥王山、小昭寺包括進來的一大圈稱為「林廓」。這從內到外的三個環型，便是藏民們行轉經儀式的路線。大昭寺的布局方位與漢族寺院不同，其主殿是坐東面西的。主殿高四層，兩側列有配殿，布局結構上再現了佛教中曼陀羅（曼荼羅）壇城的宇宙理想模式。寺院內的佛殿主要有釋迦牟尼殿、宗喀巴大師殿、松贊干布殿、班旦拉姆殿（格魯派的護法神）、神羊熱姆傑姆殿、藏王殿等等。寺內各種木雕、壁畫精美絕倫，空氣中瀰漫著酥油香氣，藏民們神情虔誠地參拜轉經。大昭寺內保存有大量珍貴文物，為藏學研究提供了豐富的素材。此外，在大昭寺門前廣場上樹立的唐蕃會盟碑見證了漢藏人民的深厚友情，勸人恤出痘碑（為清朝乾隆年間駐藏大臣和琳（和珅之弟）在西藏救治天花患者及改變葬俗而立）則見證了清朝對西藏的關懷。勸人恤出痘碑旁邊的公主柳相傳為唐朝文成公主手植。
布達拉宮 （藏語：པོ་ཏ་ལ，藏語拼音：bo da la，威利：po ta la）坐落在中國西藏自治區首府拉薩市區西北的瑪布日山（紅山）上，是一座規模宏大的宮堡式建築群，最初是吐蕃王朝贊普松贊干布興建。於17世紀重建後，成為歷代達賴喇嘛的冬宮居所，為西藏政教合一的統治中心。整座宮殿具有鮮明的藏族風格，依山而建，氣勢雄偉。宮中收藏了無數的珍寶，為一座藝術殿堂。1961年納入中國國務院第一批全國重點文物保護單位。1994年，布達拉宮列入世界文化遺產。「布達拉」或譯「普陀珞珈」，為梵文「Potalaka」之音譯，意為「小白花樹」、「光明海島」等，佛教傳說中爲觀世音菩薩的常住道場，原位於印度南部，浙江舟山的普陀山之名亦源於此。公元7世紀初，松贊干布統一西藏，定都拉薩，建立起強大的吐蕃政權。641年，他與尼泊爾塔庫里王朝和中原唐王朝聯姻，迎娶尺尊公主和文成公主，在瑪布日山上修建了宮殿，但經費來自文成公主自唐長安帶至西藏拉薩的嫁粧。因為松贊干布把觀世音菩薩作為自己的本尊佛，所以就用佛經中菩薩的住地「布達拉」來給宮殿命名，稱作「布達拉宮」。當時的布達拉宮有大小房屋一千間，但是在赤松德贊統治時期遭遇雷火燒毀了一部分。