香港幫末日
習近平打恒大只是冰山一角。幾乎所有江系集團成員遭到清算。禁止虛擬貨幣交易是封死洗黑錢和資金出逃渠道。打垮恒大是打倒香港幫。
習近平掌權之後，香港不在習派勢力範圍之內。江系在香港的經濟影響力極大，因為香港是中共高幹挾贜外逃的主要門路。本來香港地霸以為香港山高皇帝遠，習近平管不到香港。再說，香港是中共對外唯一窗口。中共失去香港特殊地位就失去對外經濟和金融實力。江系人馬和香港地霸有恃無恐，完全否定習近平的統治地位。香港除了有望海樓和反習陣營，還有一眾販民搞局。要是習近平對付江系，江系和香港地霸會攬著中港經濟同歸於盡。
誰知道美國取消香港特殊地位，習近平完全沒有妥協，沒有讓步。由此可見，他真的要放棄香港。這麼一搞，江系和地霸陣腳大亂。習近平緊握軍權和政權全面對付江系，滿城腥風血雨。江系要負上中國經濟大災難。因為江系打持中國經濟。經濟垮了，江系也會垮下來。
習近平的政治鬥爭策略完全脫離江系經濟思維，打牌完全沒有章法。恒大倒下會拖死一大群江系金融和商業巨頭。現在跳船已經來不及。江系和香港幫末日將至，很多人為求保命變節投向習派。這次江系大清洗會誅連慘烈。不要以為人在海外就安全，只要有貪污罪證，西方國家會將犯人和贜物全數送還中國，任由習近平處置。這是拜登與習近平談好的安排。可不是嗎，美國甩掉這些中共貪污罪犯，當然是好事。江系人馬和香港地霸壞事做盡，將他們全部拿下，大快人心。
請看看，拜登和習近平通話之後，華為公主獲釋; 煤炭、天然氣、石油等能源價格爆升，完全沒有爆升理由。中國由南至北突然禁煤限電也是疑點重重。恒大爆煲，其他江系大企業也爆出危機。
全球政治局勢越來越離奇，中國經濟越來越古怪，全球氣候絕對反常。現在的投資策略不能跟過去一樣。形勢變了，投資策略也要改變。看通形勢就知道拜登和習近平想做甚麼。
中港樓市投資是找死，中港股市必遭浩劫。港元聯匯會有改變。但是，全球經濟不會跟著中國經濟垮下來。美國經濟因為資金大量流入而變得強勁。用美元或者未脫匯港元炒黃金外匯是死路一條。
美國國會搞債務上限危機是不想美股升得太多，不想美國債息再下跌。美國通脹上升是好事，對美國經濟有利。債息連通脹一半都沒有，美匯還上升。要是美國國會立即通過債務上限和三萬億基建法案，美國股市和美匯當然爆升。美國資產升勢太急會令資金流入中港。這是拜登和習近平不想看見的事情。
長線來說，美國股市發展會好過中國和香港很多。樓市就更加不用說。中國和香港樓市崩潰已無懸念。中共的樓價限跌令擺到明是要推倒中國樓價。香港特區政府向四大地霸宣佈可能收回農地是要香港樓市崩盤。這麼明顯的事情，各位應該看到。

中國網絡文革的風氣真的很沒救，這次趙薇莫名其妙被封殺下架，甚至不給一個原因，不知道原因的罪更可怕，大家都來猜猜趙薇犯了什麼錯，看誰說得對。於是全網把趙薇出道以來所有事情點名一遍，莫須有的罪名比什麼罪都更可怕，因為你什麼都是罪，全身上下都是罪，任人填寫罪名。

林心如和霍建華早就默默在退出，霍建華多年前被逼在南海仲裁案上表態，拍了丟臉的「一點都不能少」海報，後來霍建華默默把微博關閉，社群帳號一概不碰，很明顯南海事件是他不情願。之後霍關閉工作室搬回台灣，繼而這次小燕子出事紫薇關閉工作室，也是遲早而已，就是在還珠格格裡，兩人也是一併受罰不是嗎。林心如早將重心轉回台灣，計程車上都是鳳凰電波廣告。

先前鬧出在美國找代理孕母，懷了兩個孩子卻又棄養的驚天狗血劇，90後女星鄭爽因為和男友分手，竟要孕母將孩子打掉（沒打成請放心），今天成為范冰冰之後因陰陽合同被罰鉅款的又一人，總共被罰2.99億人民幣，她的電視劇被禁播，影視製作單位也禁止再邀鄭爽參加節目，范冰冰至今未能復出，男友微博分手，鄭爽的演藝事業恐怕五年內都將凍結。

吳亦凡的粉絲們放話劫囚場，「哥哥粉絲五千萬，解放軍才八百萬，救得出！」十幾歲少女擁有摧毀宇宙的力量，今天習近平親管的中央網信辦下發通知整治飯圈，吳亦凡可望成為新世代誅十族典範，方孝孺在天之靈哭笑不得。

好戲一樁接一樁，娛樂圈哪有這種編劇實力，真實世界才是劇力萬鈞，扣人心弦，這麼離奇的劇本交給導演都會被罵劇情這麼離譜誰會相信。

一個幽靈，文化大革命的幽靈，在中原大陸遊蕩，世世代代不肯放過這裡的活人。

「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

Wong Wai Man
習近平稱帝了，他的中國夢，下一步是什麼？
是追求長生不老吧！
這是千古英雄的宿命。
秦王漢武，唐宗宋祖，無人能跳出這樣的軌跡。
英雄的夢想，都是征服天下，但永遠無法克服自己。
英雄將自己的理想，建築在別人的痛苦和犧牲上，所以，一將功成往往萬骨枯。
儒家心法，教我們不慕英雄，應追求聖賢的境界。
聖賢不想得天下，只想征服自己。
不會將自己的煩惱痛苦，放在別人身上，而甘願背負起天下人的煩惱痛苦。
這是人的一生，根本追求的分別。
在大歷史的角度，中共沒有路可走。
中共領袖的路，都是從血泊中走來，他們的總書記，從來沒有一個有好下場。
如何安排他們的權力交接？
免卻晚年的恐懼？
毛澤東用指定接班人的辦法，但偏偏是林彪。
其實，無論指定的是誰，下場都只能是林彪。
江青四人幫誅殺大老功臣，老毛死前只能下條子「你辦事，我放心」給華國鋒。
沒有部署，沒有顧命大臣，便引來鄧小平宮廷政變。
鄧小平第三次復出，反共走資，走向集體權力制——八老護國。
經濟改革之後，政治改革寸步難行，犧牲了兩個總書記——胡耀邦和趙紫陽。
血洗天安門之後，地方諸侯入京，海派江澤民掌權，也是有計畫有系統的竊國分贓開始。
分贓從來不均，鄧小平訂下的兩任任期又到，勉強傳位給老鄧隔代欽點的胡錦濤，但江派在幕後操控。
胡溫既被視為家奴而已，竊國便更為猖獗。
這便引起其他兩派的不滿。
紅色血脈和被架空權力的胡溫等待時機，這時，習近平拿著習仲勛一條血脈上場。
江派以為只是庸碌二代，給他和胡錦濤聯盟，輕率的在陰溝翻了船。
習近平這樣走來，將來如何交棒？
權力離身，自身和家族都死無葬身之地了。畢竟這六年打著反貪旗號，已令百萬官僚家破人亡。
沒有全身而退的方法，唯有永遠執政下去。
所以，下一步是追求長生不老，便順理成章了。
老子《道德經》第六十六章：
江海所以能為百谷王者，以其善下之，故能為百谷王。
是以聖人欲上民，必以言下之；欲先民，必以身後之。是以聖人處上而民不重，處前而民不害，是以天下樂推而不厭。
以其不爭，故天下莫能與之爭。
老子說：
江海，基於地勢低下，所以地面上的水，莫不流向它那裡，因為善於自處低下，才能接受百川歸注。
老子以江海，喻領袖的胸襟，像江海的特性，兼容並蓄，藏污納垢。
作為政府，至公無私，無不包容。江海兼容並蓄，但不失其至虛，藏污納垢，但不失其性之至清。
所以，領袖想居萬民之上，言語顏色都要謙下；要居民眾之前，首先要處處退後。
道術與權術之別，在於無私心。道術以無機心為根，權術以機心為本。
形式相同，根本有異。
所以，成功領袖雖然處上位，但民眾不感到負擔；雖居民前，但民眾不感到有損害。所以，天下百姓都樂於推戴他，不厭棄他。
這都因為，他不和任何人相爭，所以天下沒有人能爭得過他了。
習近平揀戊戌年稱帝，自有其深意。兩甲子的戊戌，一百二十年，都是民族大劫，今日修憲，改兩屆任期之限，即準備執政下去了。
當年袁世凱欲稱帝，楊度推波助瀾，送《君憲救國論》：
「中國如不廢共和，立君主，則強國無望，富國無望，立憲無望，終歸於亡國而已……
故以專制之權，行立憲之業，乃聖君英闢建立大功大業之極好機會。」
袁世凱稱為「至理名言」。
但反對袁世凱稱帝的有其二子袁克文，有七律勸諫：
乍著吳棉強自勝，
古台荒檻一憑陵。
波飛太液心無著，
雲起摩崖夢欲騰。
偶向遠林聞怨笛，
獨留虛實轉明燈。
堪憐高處多風雨，
莫到瓊樓最上層。
楊度得意一時，袁克文遭軟禁於北海。
今日習近平身邊，都是聰明機巧的楊度，沒有袁克文。

#習近平修憲 #中共政權 #道德經

2018年2月27日星期二下午5:00
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Wong Wai Man
大陸的出家人，比解放前幸福，他們除了皈依三寶，還可以皈依習近平。
習的中共十九大靈山法會今日落幕了。皆大歡喜，信受奉行。
一場造神大龍鳳，只想訴說一句話︰
習近平是繼毛澤東、鄧小平後，中共的第三位偉大領袖。
毛澤東令中國人民站起來。
鄧小平令中國人民富起來。
習近平令中國人民強起來。
站起來和富起來，是具體的，但強起來就抽象得多。
要嘛，走帝國主義路線，成立中共帝國，先稱霸亞洲，再討伐歐美。一如過去西班牙、英國、法國、德國、日本等，用戰功稱雄。
或者，令人民覺得今日中共強大便夠了︰
教育部長說，中國將成為世界人們最想留學的地方。
習說，中央對香港有全面管治權。
大陸遊客說，沒有我們香港早就完了。
建立軍事帝國難，令大陸人相信「犯我中華者，雖遠必誅」。
未來五年的大陸國情是：
國家行騙，官僚行劫，人民行乞。
其實，行騙、行劫、行乞，亦是人類基本的三種求生本能。
周易雷天大壯卦。
大壯則止。
為什麼？
自己充滿信心，感覺良好的時候，希望人人都知你勁的時候，卻要你「止」。明明自己認為是大壯時，但卻說：不要動。
這是一個躁動的處境，陽氣過盛，急於出頭，能量無處發洩，想出人頭地，想世界認同。這個時候不懂節制，就會造成傷害。對自己，對別人，對周圍環境，都無好處。
小人，一般人，最愛恃強凌人，猶如好鬥的公羊，恃住雙角堅硬，東闖西碰，撞向藩籬，卡住了，進退不得。
君子，了不起的人，就不一樣。他用罔，空的，有權，但不用，有實力，但不稱霸。他看的角度夠高，縱觀全盤，不會盛氣凌人，所以不會落得進退難堪的處境。
雖強不用，乃是智慧。

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65359979 訂購專輯，原價$120，7月15號現場限定$90

【未能接通】專輯發佈音樂會：
日期: 15/7 (Sat)
時間: 8:00pm - 10:30pm
地點: G2 鴻圖工業大廈80 Hung To Rd, Kwun Tong


【未能接通】
故名思義是電話未能接通的意思。年輕一輩在各種社交媒體或通訊工具興起後，已經甚少以打電話作為主要溝通方式。未能接通所代表的是新時代新產物新世代的生活態度。
我們，拒絕在傳統框架下被定型。

關於語言的定型

「You are my destiny 그댄」，身為一個不懂韓語的香港人在電台偶爾聽到一首韓文的副歌。聽得懂英文You are my destiny但不明白그댄的意思，好奇地立即上網搜查一番。

正正因為這次體驗，對於一種外語文化產生了好奇。念頭一閃，如果【未能接通】做一張專輯，是以英文和普通話作為媒介，又能否讓不同語系的人，對粵語產生興趣呢？

【未能接通】第一張EP，試試打破一般對「歌曲語言必需Consistent」的定型，讓不同語系的人接通

1）【暫時未能接通】
有一種人永遠沒有時間觀念，遲到，聯絡不上。這種人慢條絲理，消耗別人的生命倒數，人人得而誅之！

2）【Wednesday Night】
Wednesday Night，在外國夜場又名Ladies Night.。以第三身角度看穿夜場眾生相 - "派對看破發洩對飲亂局在排序"

3) 【Nothing to Celebrate】
拒絕節日被商品化，解救男生被莫名其妙節日騎劫荷包/心智

4）【明鏡】
香港學童自殺問題持續。予其將上一代既定價值觀強加於學莘，倒不如多一份代入，承認負面情緒的存在價值。予其拒絕情緒，不如消化情緒

5）【找藉口是失敗者的習慣】
口裡常掛著冠冕堂皇的遠大理想，卻每天替自己的懶惰找開脫，年復一年，原地踏步。將別人的成功歸功於幸運，將於自己失敗歸咎於不幸，都是失敗者的習慣。

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