「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

【男人四十】「三高」越趨年輕化

⭐長期飲食不節的後果
⭐容易誘發冠心病腦中風等致命病症
#星期三CheckCheckMail

飲食不節慎防三高
朱先生：「最近做身體檢查，醫生說我在『三高』邊緣，如何解決這個中年危機？」

CheckCheckCin：「三高」即高血壓、高血糖及高血脂，可說是都市人的富貴病，長期飲食不節，經常進食高脂肪、高糖份、高鹽份食物，再加上缺乏運動、壓力大、作息不正常等因素，令各種身體指數超標。西醫會以各種藥物來降低血壓、血糖及血脂，而從中醫角度來看需要改善體質，必須改變生活習慣，才能從根源上緩解「三高」症狀。一般來說痰濕、血瘀及陰虛體質人士比較容易患上「三高」，因為痰濕體質人士脾氣虛弱，水液運化失調；血瘀體質人士則血脈不通；陰虛體質人士作息顛倒容易令血壓上升。
想改善「三高」情況，宜諮詢註冊中醫師對症下藥調理體質，飲食上宜清淡，多菜少肉，減少外食或加工食品，避免進食高脂肪、高糖份、高鹽份的食物；養成定期做運動的習慣，一星期最少三次，每次最少30分鐘，強度以輕微出汗為宜；避免晚睡熬夜；尋找合適的減壓方法，因為焦慮不安等負面情緒也會導致血壓上升。

山楂黑木耳茶
功效：活血涼血，紓緩肥胖、高血脂等症狀。
材料：山楂15克、黑木耳15克
做法：材料切絲，洗淨放保溫瓶，以熱開水沖洗一遍，再注入熱開水焗10分鐘即可。此茶可反覆沖泡至味淡，建議一星期飲用2-3次，連續兩星期為一個療程。
注意：孕婦不宜飲用。

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Unhealthy diets and ‘the three highs’

“I just completed a body check-up recently, and the doctor told me I’m at risk of getting the three highs. What can I do to solve this mid-life crisis?”

CheckCheckCin: The three highs refer to high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol, and urban dwellers tend to have these problems. Poor dietary habits such as consuming foods that are high in cholesterol, sugar, and sodium, and the lack of exercise, inability to cope with stress, and unhealthy lifestyle would cause a spike in the readings.

According to Chinese Medicine, aside from using medication, an individual should improve the body constitution and lead a healthier lifestyle if he or she wishes to get these conditions under control.

In general, individuals with the damp heat, blood stasis, and yin-deficient body constitutions would develop the three highs more easily. Individuals with a damp heat body constitution have asthenic qi and spleen, and the fluid would stagnate easily in the body. Those with the blood stasis constitution may experience the stagnation of the blood and the vein. People with a yin-deficient constitution will experience a spike in their blood pressure if they constantly mess with their biological clock.

To improve the condition of the three highs, consult registered and licensed Chinese physicians, so they can prescribe you the right medicine and customize treatment for you.Eat lighter food, take more vegetables and cut down on meat, reduce eating out and processed food, and avoid eating foods that are high in cholesterol, sugar, and sodium.

Cultivate the habit of exercising regularly. Make it a point to exercise and sweat three times a week, and each session should last at least 30 minutes. Avoid sleeping late and find the most appropriate way to relieve your stress, as negative emotions can also trigger a surge in the blood pressure.

Chinese hawthorn tea with Black fungus
Effects: Activates and cools blood, relieves obesity and hyperlipidemia.
Ingredients: 15g dried Chinese hawthorn, 15g black fungus
Preparation: Cut the ingredients into slices and place into the thermos. Rinse with hot water once. Then add in hot water again and steep for 10 minutes. This tea can be rebrewed until its flavor weakens. For best results, drink consecutively for 2-3 days a week. Two weeks for a treatment.
Note: Not suitable for pregnant women.

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本文延續前一篇文章，作者探討十五種 Kubernetes 不該使用的部署與維運模式，總共三篇，每篇五種。

Misusing Health probes
Kubernetes 內有設定三種不同的 Probe，分別是 Readiness, Liveness 以及 Startup，前兩者 Probe 比較常被提到而且會不停的執行，而 Startup 則是會被運行一次的 Probe。
作者認為所有開發者都要去研究這三種的差異並且小心使用。
文章中列舉一些常見的錯誤用法
1. 用相同的 endpoint 同時處理 liveness 以及 readiness
2. 繼續沿用過往針對 VM 所設計的 health endpoint，應該要針對容器環境重新設計
3. Health 的檢查過於複雜，導致需要花費一個不可預測的時間
..
等

Not using the Helm package manager
作者認為目前 Kubernetes 生態系中只有一個 Package Manager，也就是 Helm，就像是常見的 apt/rpm 等套件般去管理不同的應用程式。
然而 Helm 卻很容易被誤解並拿去跟其他工具比較，譬如 Kustomize, Jsonnet.. 等。
從本質上來看 Helm， Helm 本身有 Package 的管理能力，同時也透過 Template 的方式來產生適合於不同環境的 YAML 檔案。 而上述其他的比較解決方案基本上都只能完成後者，透過如 overlay (kustomize) 等不同的方式來產生不同的 YAML，但是本身卻沒有去管理這些安裝好的應用程式。

如何產生 YAML 這些是部署前的流程，而上述的那些工具對於檔案部署到 Kubernetes 後就無能為力了，譬如想要刪除任何安裝到 Kubernetes 資源的應用程式，必須要找到原始的 YAML 檔案。而 Helm 則不一樣，本身會於 Cluster 內去記錄這些這些資訊，讓你可以透過 helm 的指令去刪除這些安裝好的應用程式。

作者認為除非團隊很明確的瞭解與設計其工作流程，確保 Helm 帶來的部署與管理流程不需要，否則推薦任何團隊都可以採用 Helm，特別是之前因為 Helm2 Tiller 而厭惡的人必須要來試試看 Helm3

Not having a strategy for secrets
如同先前探討的 Configuration 不應該直接嵌入 Contaienr Image 一樣，Secret 這類型的物件也一樣，作者看到團隊常有下列錯誤
1. 使用各種不同的方式來管理 Secret 物件
2. 沒有區分好運行期需要的 Secret 與建制時期需要的 Secret
3. 過於複雜的處理方式導致本地測試與開發過於困難

相反的，團隊應該要
1. 選擇一個策略
2. 所有團隊使用該策略來處理 Secret
3. 所有的 Secret 應該都要用相同的方式處理
4. 這樣的機制使得 secret 的管理與追蹤更為容易

Attempting to solve all problems with Kubernetes
永遠不要認為 Kubernetes 能夠解決所有問題，團隊必須要理解到 Kubernetes 帶來的優點與缺點，團隊本身的部署與工作流程是否適合使用 Kubernetes。
也不要想說要把所有服務都搬到 Kubernetes 內，譬如 databases, caching 等，這些本來就存在的解決方案依然可以使用本來的方式繼續部署，不要一相情願地覺得這些東西放到 Kubernetes 內就一定會更好。

詳細原文可以參考下列連結。

https://medium.com/containers-101/kubernetes-deployment-antipatterns-part-3-dfbdd2fd3292

這次要來跟 @旅行YJ @諾斯Nox @後撤步 一起來玩密室逃脫桌遊《大搜查》! 真的是被這個遊戲搞到腦細胞死一堆啦!


以下介紹來自https://kknews.cc/zh-tw/news/oane6rp.html

謎題，從人類文明誕生之際開始一直延續至今。比如經典的斯芬克斯之謎：「什麼動物早晨用四條腿走路，中午用兩條腿走路，晚上用三條腿走路？腿最多的時候，也正是他走路最慢，體力最弱的時候。」從公元前400年左右被創作出來至今依然為人們所津津樂道。而到了21世紀，這個人類最為傳統的興趣愛好也與時俱進的以遊戲的姿態再次出現在我們的眼前。在當代，解謎遊戲一直是遊戲中的一個重要分類。從網際網路萌芽時代的《逃離紅色房間》，到剛推出不久的《銹湖》系列遊戲，雖然表現的形式稍有改變，但一直占有自己的角落，靜靜的發出璀璨的光輝。

在桌遊的世界當然也不會缺少解謎遊戲的身影。比如最近在摩點大熱並籌得了超過兩千萬人民幣的話題作品《迷宮·如意琳琅圖籍》就是一個圖書的形式將謎題呈獻到玩家眼前的桌遊。不過他並不是今天筆者要介紹的遊戲（畢竟還沒正式發貨並沒有辦法介紹）。今天真正要介紹的桌遊是另一個頗受推崇的解謎遊戲，也就是近期剛剛推出中文版的《大搜查（Unlock）》

《大搜查》是一個推出於2017年的系列作品，遊戲由一系列的卡牌組成。玩家在遊戲中的最終目標是在一個小時的時間內得出一個四位數的密碼逃離「密室」。在不同的劇本中密室所代表的意義也有所不同可能是個封閉住的房間也可能是一個荒島。這根據劇本的不同而不同——每一個劇本都是一個獨立的小故事。目前推出了中文版的是大搜查的第一季。打開遊戲外盒就可以看到作為劇本象徵的整整齊齊的三刀牌，但這其實還並不全部的遊戲配件。

《大搜查》在實際的遊戲進行中，除了需要這些卡牌之外，還有一個不在遊戲盒子中，但地位舉足輕重的額外配件,也就是APP，大搜查的遊戲無法脫離這個APP來完成。APP在這個遊戲中扮演的角色遠遠大於一個單純的計時器，他除了用於記錄一個小時的時間經過了多少之外，還負責驗證密碼正確與否，機關的破解方法是否正確，玩家錯誤嘗試扣除時間以及玩家提示。

這個提醒的作用要比想像中大很多，解謎遊戲中出現卡關再正常不過了，如果只是需要時間還好，但很多時候玩家卡關的原因是與設計師的腦迴路對不上，或者說沒有理解到設計師的用意，因為這種原因而造成的卡關往往無法通過時間來解決。比如《時間守望》基礎劇本的最終謎題筆者就因為這層原因卡了一個多小時，如果不是看了網上大神的攻略恐怕就要強行開門了。但在《大搜查》遊戲中，因為有了這個提示功能，雖然失去了些許懸念，但至少遊戲能順利的進行下去。

遊戲規則

遊戲中的主要卡牌分為四類：地點，物品，機關，密碼。

地點即是遊戲中的我們所處在的密室，在遊戲中起始卡背面必然是地點卡，地點卡上會有許多數字和字母代表著在遊戲中我們可以調查的事物（當然有些會隱藏起來，如果不仔細觀察是找不到的）。物品卡就很直接的是遊戲中我們獲得的物品了。物品的頂端通常會分為紅藍兩種，如果你覺得兩件物品組合在一起可能會發生奇妙的效果時，可以將這兩張卡的編號相加並打開對應的卡牌。機關卡意味著一個機關，我們需要在APP中輸入對應的號碼來開始挑戰機關，機關的正確解法可能就在機關自身之中，但也可能是需要在其他卡牌上尋找線索。密碼卡的意義就簡單了，它代表了這個地方有一道鎖，當玩家獲得了正確的密碼之後輸入APP，就會得到相對應的內容，如果這就是最終要打開的門的話，玩家也就通關了，遊戲會根據玩家在遊戲中的表現（耗時，錯誤嘗試，尋求提示次數等）給玩家得出一個最終得分，當然對於筆者這樣的體驗向玩家來說，只要能通關就好了（笑）

遊戲劇本

遊戲的第一季里包含了四個劇本，一個教學劇本和三個正式劇本。教學劇本由十張卡組成，但包含了正式遊戲中的所有內容，它會手把手帶著玩家了解這個遊戲如何進行，實際上可以起到一個代替說明書的作用——當然正式的說明書還是存在的。

遊戲的其他三個劇本就是正式的遊戲內容了，他們分別出自三個作者之手，每個作品的風格各不相同，劇情上也沒有什麼連貫性，應該算是獨立的。因為作者不同的原因，謎題的傾向也有所不同，比如第二個劇本「香腸鼠俠」就和其他兩個劇本迥然不同，不僅畫風無厘頭，很多謎題也十分的無厘頭。不過為了保證玩家的體驗我就不多講了，此間真意就留給玩家朋友們自己去體會吧。

作為一款A社漢化的劇本類遊戲，就不得不順便聊一聊它的翻譯，畢竟A社再翻譯上有著很多不光彩的過去。不過這次A社的翻譯還是做的不錯的，至少在筆者遊玩的時候並沒有遇到什麼嚴重影響遊戲進行的BUG，大家可以安心購買。不過倒是有一個非翻譯問題帶來的BUG嚴重影響了遊戲。那就是教學任務中的67指的實際上是69，這個問題是英文一版就有的，並且在二版進行了糾正。而A社在推出中文版時是根據英文一版來的，這個錯誤並沒有糾正，而是完美的繼承了下來，讓大家可以體驗「原汁原味的錯誤冒險」。大家在進行遊戲的時候千萬要多留意一下。

小結

《大搜查》是我目前玩過的最好的劇情向遊戲之一，他在遊戲體驗上十分靠近電子遊戲的解謎遊戲和真人的密室逃脫。和電腦上的解謎遊戲相比在一些設定上還是有不同的，比如隱藏數字。在卡片上沒找到就是沒找到，可不存在靠亂點矇混過關的可能性哦（笑）。另一個不同在於可以和小夥伴們互動，小夥伴們群策群力逃出生天的感覺是電子遊戲里無法獲得的。

而且在《大搜查》的後期一些劇本中甚至還會出現一些需要兩組人通力合作才能完成的謎題，實際上已經超過了電子遊戲的能力範圍里，充分發揮了桌遊的優勢（雖然這個劇本真的很難）。而相比與真人的密室逃脫相比，《大搜查》的最大特點就在於體量，遊戲的本體只是一刀牌，攜帶方便，開局也方便。不過這三類遊戲體驗各不相同，難分伯仲，各種取捨還是要看玩家自己的傾向了。


《大搜查》比較創新的採用了APP來輔助遊戲，這個模式曾經很少見，但隨著時代的發展也漸漸變的多了起來，比如《瘋狂詭宅》第二版就也採用了APP輔助遊戲的這個模式。不過實際上最初看到這個模式筆者是不太喜歡的，畢竟桌遊的一大特點在於可以不插電的進行遊玩，用插電的設備來輔助本應不插電的桌遊讓人不由得覺得有些失去本心。但是實際體驗下來，APP的表現確實非常好，讓筆者不由得說一句真香。APP的加入能提供很多一般桌遊配件很難給予玩家的東西，比如時限步步逼近的緊張感，比如說用聲畫和遊戲的配合，不採用這種模式的話是絕難做到的。另一方面還可以封印一個玩家的手機讓他專心投入到桌遊當中，更是妙不可言（笑）。

《大搜查》的外文版目前總共推出了五個季度十五個劇本，這對於一個2017年推出的遊戲來說算是比較誇張了，不過作為一個以劇情為賣點的遊戲，擴展多意味著玩家可以體驗到的內容多，實際上也是一件好事。雖然目前中文只推出了第一季度的中文版，但是開坑的畢竟是A社，至少應該不會出現挖坑不填的現象。如果你是一個密室愛好者，又或者是一個愛好思考愛好解謎的玩家，這都是極為合適的遊戲，不妨趕快去入手吧。


原文網址：https://kknews.cc/news/oane6rp.html
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