《燒書》

♂：早晨

♀：早晨，尋晚學成點啊？

♂：我發現除左French Kiss之外，仲有好多用國家而命名既Kiss

♀：得，我知你想講乜，一朝早麻煩比我靜靜享受我既奶茶

♂：你知唔知你最吸引既地方係咩

♀：一朝早就想讚我，歡迎至極

♂：你係少數係呢種笑話入面會不置可否，識得留白既人，唔會太認真，又唔會太無知，又唔會太低俗，呢樣係我從來未見過既類型

♀：情侶之間，情趣好緊要，用你既語言，要保鮮

♂：咁你係一個好好既花王，係呢，你信唔信鬼

♀：你見過？

♂：無，我陽氣重，從來都未見過

♀：我覺得鬼只存在係人心入面，心中有鬼就會見鬼

♂：星期六晚，我會去燒書

♀：買唔晒都唔駛去燒書既，最多我幫你買喇

♂：唔係，我只燒一本，每年七月我都會燒

♀：比你心中既鬼？

♂：我老豆

♀：你絕少提到你家人，但你會為你老豆燒書，睇黎成家你同佢關係最好

♂：佢係唯一一個支持我寫野既人，我第一篇比雜誌刊登既文就係為佢而寫，亦係我第一篇真真正正為一個人真心而寫既文

♀：要懷念一個人，有好多方法，燒書又好，燒衣又好，燒野食都好，都可以係，最緊要係有心

♂：笑左……燒野食都唔錯，又可以懷念，又可以食野

♀：我唔相信有鬼，人死左如果有靈魂就應該有佢地應該去既地方，如果有輪迴，佢地應該去迎接佢地既新生命

♂：佢係自殺，無論係東方或者西方都好，自殺既人都唔會有好下場，係天主教入面，自殺既人唔可以上天堂；係佛教入面，自殺係大罪，會墜落到三惡道，下世不能為人；係道教入面，陽壽未盡而自殺，呢個罪孽需要用好多功德去彌補；伊斯蘭教中，自殺都係被視為不敬主，人係無權自殺

♀：自殺既人，認為死亡比活著更好

♂：的確……佢無必要受呢種苦，我見過佢係深夜入面偷偷係廚房喊

♀：但佢至少有一個理解佢同支持佢，仲會一直想念佢既仔

♂：我的確好掛住佢，其中一點我返黎既，都係因為想拜下佢

♀：如果你需要人陪既，我星期日可以陪你去

♂：算唔算見家長？

♀：你話係既，咪係，咁我都帶少少野燒比世伯

♂：有心，我諗佢知道我有人係身邊都已經好開心

♀：你有冇聽過人點解會有咁多苦難？

♂：請繼續

♀：我聽過一個好有趣既講法，其實人生就好似遊戲咁，我地曾經玩過簡單模式，輕易通關；然後挑戰困難模式，花左少少心思就通關，最後我地選擇地獄模式，可能就係我地依家經歷緊既人生，係我地自己選擇，亦係我地希望挑戰既

♂：你呢個想法同我一直以來聽到既完全係兩個概念，人要積功德，做好事，咁下世先會有好人生，按你咁講，即係我地想爭取係，係更困難既人生？

♀：因為挑戰，愈難得到既，就愈有價值，依家我地怨，只不過係我地飲既孟婆湯令我地完全忘記左呢個初衷

♂：我都聽過一個講法，每個人出世就已經有晒成個劇本，而我地係睇完個劇本滿意先會選擇呢一個生命

♀：係，我可以肯定，你選擇呢個生命既原因，係因為有我

♂：如果你知道我既人生係點既，你應該會知道如果我真係因為你而揀，你既價值可以話係無價

♀：因為人選擇一個困難模式，除左得到更大既挑戰性之外，更係因為困難模式入面會有更珍貴既寶物

♂：好似聽到心靈雞湯咁，咁我老豆呢？佢呢個模式之中又得到咩？

♀：我唔知，但佢一定得到應該珍惜既野，例如三胞胎？一個會為佢燒書既仔？

♂：佢……我知道佢既野太多太多……而我覺得暫時未係時候同你講

♀：咁到你想講既時候，我隨時都願意聽

♂：我好似想將所有事都同你講咁，即使我近乎對你一無所知……

♀：星期日，你將會開始知道我既野，到時我都希望你會一直聽我講我既野

♂：你曾經講過，比人知道自己既一切，就好似將衣服一件一件既脫去，然後變得赤裸，當赤裸之後，呢種赤裸就算你著返衫，都返唔到轉頭

♀：你想講，如果兩個人都變得赤裸之後，會唔會睇清大家之後，就去到盡頭？

♂：係，你既意思係咁，好明顯，但明顯依家我地每日都除緊衫，你明知結果係點，你都照做，咁就一定有原因

♀：係，原因係咩？

♂：呢個答案，我會係大家一絲不掛既時候，再親口同你講

♀：當大家一絲不掛既時候，最唔應該做既，就係出聲

♂：咁係你想聽既時候，我再同你講

♀：咁希望你可以比我想像中遲講

♂：今晚，我想要更多今晚

♀：咁我地都要好努力先得，用力好簡單，用腦唔簡單

♂：同你傾計，真係好攰，但同時好滿足

♀：可能唔止係傾計會咁，今晚講得太多，晚安

♂：我都需要回下氣，晚安

♀：地獄模式之下，最重要既係搵到一個好隊友，二人模式點都輕鬆過一人模式

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《「拴馬索」——念珠之功德與作用之六 》
　
有關於念珠所聽聞過的種種功德利益，無論是在道教或是佛教中，實在是太多！關於這類說法，最終我還是會回歸於佛陀所開示的經典。佛曾經在一部經典中有講述到佛珠的因緣，這部經文叫做《佛說木槵子經》。當時是因為有一位國王，他的名字叫做波流離，他所屬的國家並不是大國，又碰到不好的年歲，所以國中有許許多多的流寇、盜匪橫行，傳染病也跟著流行傳播，民生極為困苦，因為這般，他經常無法安眠，因此他就請教佛陀：「有什麼妙法可以讓我解除憂煩？讓我可以精進地修行？希望佛陀能特別地垂示、傳授我可以解脫痛苦和煩惱的大法，讓我在獲得法寶時，可以得大安心，在未來際也可以脫離一切輪迴痛苦⋯⋯」
　
這是當時佛見到波流離王時，波流離王因為長時間承受了太多壓力，所以使得身心疲憊和缺乏精進心，弄得十分苦惱，既消瘦又不知如何是好，於是佛就對他解說了《佛說木槵子經》，希望可以消除他心中的介然沮喪以及淒寒無施。佛在這部經是怎麼說的呢？
　
「善男子，如果要消除一切的煩惱和障礙，或因為業報所成熟的障礙，首先要先準備一百零八顆的念珠不離身，不管是在行、住、坐、臥之中，不要讓自己的心有所散亂，專一持誦佛、法、僧名號，每當唸誦一句，就過珠一粒，如此類推，從第一聲持唸三寶名，直至第二十聲，心中不要有散亂，再逐次地到百聲、千聲，甚至於千萬聲，依此累計持唸到二十萬聲，這期間若能一直身、口、意清淨，一心不亂，毫無諂曲之心，此人往生之後可以直接升至第三天，到此天時，天人之樂衣食不求自來，假使可以更精進地唸滿一百萬遍，那便可以斷除八十八種的結使以及一切業障，超越一切輪迴，直至涅槃，煩惱永斷⋯⋯。
　
當初剛開始讀誦到這一部經文中的內容，竊喜異常，並且也希望可以介紹有緣信解之人，依法持誦，即便是往生後投生到欲界天之中的第三天當天人，對於一般人而言，也是極具鼓勵的。焰摩天的世界充滿了無限的光明，當然就沒有像人世間的日夜困擾，住在這裡的天人無時無刻都享受著人間無法體會得到的歡愉，此天是空居天中的第一層，這地方距離人類所居住的地方有十六萬由旬之遠，距離上方的忉利天大約有八萬由旬，此處的環境光是山，它的高度便有一萬由旬之高，天界中有四大山為主，到處都遍滿了虛空中自然飄零的花蔓，隨處可見明澈如鏡般水池，數不盡的成千上百水木清華、殊勝的園林環繞著，此番此景無法言喻的享樂，連忉利天都無法可比，居住在此的天人可以享有的天壽共為兩千歲，要知道，這處天界所過的一日一夜等同我們娑婆世界就是兩百年，此天天人因為尚屬於欲界天的緣故，所以也有女嫁男娶等事，但不似如娑婆世界人世間諸多麻煩，天人之間只要彼此擁抱，就等同和合一般，不可思議的是，此天的天人若是有生兒育女之想，馬上就會隨其願望，會從自己的膝蓋上面出生，小孩一出生就有世間三四歲孩童一般之身形⋯⋯這天的天王也是閻魔王，也就是地獄之主，掌管人世間往生後決定人之生死大事⋯⋯。

於是國王心裡生起了殊勝的信解，朝著佛陀的方向頂禮，接著說：「這些實在是太殊勝了！我一定如法奉行，接著我會頒布命令，要國中所有的眾生都準備請得木槵子念珠一千份，先給予貴族每人一份。」國王不間斷地持誦三寶的名諱，如此即便是在軍旅之中也未曾荒廢過唸誦三寶的名號。
　
至於整串念珠的長度與數目，以品位來說，若能擁有一千零八十顆，串在一串之上持誦，這便是最上品的念珠。但實際上這麼一大串念珠，平常是很少看到的，有些念珠或提珠也有人使用五十四粒或者是二十七粒等等。為什麼會有一千零八十粒數珠的由來？主要是因為包含了十法界中一百零八個數字，一百零八的部分只是表示一百零八種的煩惱，或者也可以說證得一百零八種不可言喻的三昧，也有一些經文說到五十四粒的念珠，是證得五十四位階的意思。其餘的四十二顆、二十七顆，或者二十一顆念珠，其實都代表著菩薩祂的位階以及聲聞、緣覺各自不同的階位⋯⋯（未完待續）
　
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「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

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呢條影片會講下吳孟達達哥喪禮將於 聽日3月7號設靈嘅資料畀大家聽下，亦都分享一下喪禮前後嘅冷知識。

田雞表示，設靈當日下午5~6時給傳媒採訪, 跟住晚上六至七時為公祭時段，開放給公眾人士及影迷前來致敬；隨後的安息禮拜祈禱儀式，屬私人儀式進行，只限親屬好友參與,不作公開安排；3月8日告別儀式及火化禮同樣是私人儀式進行。

另外，田雞又特意為達哥家人澄清說︰「因應近日謠傳四起，現家屬謹此聲明，沒有授權或同意任何人士、機構，以任何方式、渠道代收帛金或舉辦任何追思會事宜。」以免撞中有人混水摸魚 ，謀取私利 。

訃(附)告表示為表對亡者的敬重及尊重家屬意願，任何時段於靈堂範圍內嚴禁攝錄， 違者將逐出靈堂。因應疫情持續，進場人士必須遵守衛生署現行有關場地人數限制、佩戴口罩及遵守治喪處防疫安排，不能作長時間逗留，以策安全。

而家我又同大家分享一下有關出殯前後嘅冷知識。

香港的殯儀程序一般包括：

設靈〔於先人出殯前一晚進行，同時進行宗教儀式，傳統上親人會在當晚於靈堂過夜，稱為守夜
入殮〔把先人遺體安放入棺木〕
大殮〔包括瞻仰遺容、封棺、辭靈等，同時進行宗教儀式〕
出殯（靈柩前往下葬）
下葬（通常為土葬或火葬，同時進行宗教儀式）
從殮房直接出殯則只可簡單儀式。


有什麼法事/儀式最堂見和分別?
道教
道教是香港最普遍的殯儀宗教儀式，較為人熟悉的儀式有破地獄[3]、擔幡買水, 坐蓮花等，亦會燒一些紙紮用品，以求「陰安陽樂」。
佛教
佛教是香港普遍的殯儀宗教儀式，較為人熟悉的儀式有上貢等，目的為超渡先人，儘快輪迴。
天主教
天主教是香港普遍的殯儀宗教儀式，會講道，奉香，唱詩歌，祈禱等，目的是為了紀念先人，祝福先人到了天國，享有永生。
基督教
基督教亦是香港普遍的殯儀宗教儀式，會講道，唱詩歌，祈禱等，目的與天主教一樣，是為了紀念先人，祝福先人到了天國，享有永生。

「頭七」及「回魂夜」是什麼?
「頭七」及「回魂夜」好多人都以為同一樣?其實係兩回事。
「頭七」:- 代表先人已正式「開喪」，而「開喪」則代表先人已可納受後人香火及拜祭。同時，亦代表先人已知自己死亡。
- 「七」，即是先人每七日就會經?生死一次。故此古語曰：「生人做生日，死人望做七」。
- 「頭七」係人死後第七日，如：先人1月1日死亡，1月7日就係先人「頭七」。
通常「頭七」、「三七」、「五七」、「尾七」都會道堂打齋超渡先人，或於家中為先人設祭品、香燭，拜祭一番(俗稱做七)。古時，法事過後，家屬都會招待親友飲食齋菜或自家茹素(俗稱食七)。而做七，同時亦係代表「拜閻王」。而「二七」、「四七」、「六七」稱為暗七，暗七屬外嫁女、女性身份拜，祗需簡單上香、燒金銀、溪錢拜祭。

「回魂夜」：
- 「回魂夜」又稱「回煞」，回魂夜日子、來回時間、來回方位、停留時間。而「回魂夜」則由先人生辰、死亡八字以道家計式再配合通勝而得出。
- 「回魂夜」其實係一連兩晚….
第一晚為「私歸」，即是先人自己偷偷回舍探望家人。
第二晚為「正歸」，「正歸」才是「回魂夜」日子，即是當晚會有牛頭馬面(凶神)及黑白無常(煞神)帶住先人回舍、享用祭品及離去。
「回魂夜」當晚，生人睡覺前需將較剪或其他利器放於床頭才睡覺。到第二朝早，將較剪或利器拋擲出客廳才步出睡房，此做法目的係避免仍有凶煞神停留於屋內，此舉稱為「出煞」。

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導演：裴玉華

我是剃度修行的僧人
拋開七情六慾貪痴嗔
花花世界我如此不捨
終究難成為神
我看破空門遁入紅塵
不如當個襯職的神棍
想借花獻佛騙吃騙喝
信徒供養一生

我是上帝派遣最後一個使者
神的旨意就讓我來替祂貫徹
各位信徒虔誠地來為我朝聖
在這個分分合合的耶路撒冷

佛說 色即是空
明心見性 頓悟成佛
禪宗 祖師達摩
放下屠刀 我立地成佛
佛說 色即是空
明心見性 頓悟成佛
墨說 兼愛非攻
擺脫輪迴 我萬佛朝宗

人類都應該生而平等
沒有人能死後又復生
借神的名義血流成河
別相信這鬼扯
人性本善或人性本惡
不要上帝也不需使者
我相信鬼我也相信人
就是不信真神

這是我的十字軍東征
起來吧愛家的信徒們
釋放你蟄伏的狂熱
崇拜我唯一真神

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