每次一不留神,新的書就一直疊上來不及消化的書堆裡,大概是之前被七月選書《樹冠上》消耗過多精氣神(https://bit.ly/3j22BJr),而這排約莫落在七月中到八月中入手的書籍,先稍微做個紀錄,因為下個月的書單相當豪華,類型遍及電影、音樂、系列小說等等,大概需要先把額度留下來,九月真的非常值得期待。
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這個月的選書並沒有特別獨立出來分享,因為是新版重出,這本在我多年前首度讀到的時候就頗為喜愛,為蕭麗紅的代表作《#千江有水千江月》,而此次恰好是四十周年紀念版本,希望能好好地為這本書寫篇文章。故事以布袋的蕭姓大家族為中心,敘述傳統大家庭的習俗和人情瑣碎,並探討生死、親情、愛情的衝突與矛盾。生於世代養殖漁業維生的大家庭,主角貞觀巧遇表哥大信,開始了一場若有似無的愛戀。這段戀情直到貞觀上臺北工作,大信到金門當兵,兩人間的情愫也因誤解而產生令人唏噓的變化。在蕭麗紅的內容敘述中,充滿了臺灣民俗的瑰麗與趣味,而貞觀與大信古典又含蓄的戀情,為臺灣逐漸失去的純然戀歌,悠悠地低吟了一遍。
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接下來是掛名推薦的兩本,一本為早已提過多次,正在進行贈書活動的馬修麥康納回憶錄《#綠燈》,50 歲的他,花了 42 年的時間釐清自己生命中的謎題,35 年的時間記錄下解答的線索,他想要知道如何當個好人,如何得到想要的東西。如何使生命得到意義,如何更成就自我。他寫下日記,記錄他的成功與悲傷,理解與回憶。他說他書寫,是為了遺忘。敘述該如何在充斥「不」的世界中得到更多「好」,以及如何認出可能是「不」的「好」,關於抓住綠燈、並理解人生中的黃燈與紅燈遲早會轉綠的書。
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再者,也已提前分享過的電影《#火口的二人》白石一文原著小說,故事敘述十天後將舉行婚禮的直子回到家鄉福岡,來到昔日戀人賢治面前。多年後再重逢,沒有一聲問候,也沒有一句質問,只是如昨日才剛分別一般,平淡中透著一股熟悉地拉開序幕。在二人熟悉的老家中,直子翻起一本舊相簿,裡頭盡是她與賢治一絲不掛的黑白性愛照。一頁一頁,往事的物證翩然眼前,那張如回憶之鑰的富士山火山口海報也隨之乍現,直子不禁脫口說出:「我最喜歡這張照片了。」二人之間曾不顧一切燃燒的火焰,在即將被宣判死刑的愛情面前再度復甦。等待直子未婚夫歸來的倒數五天,二人似末日到來般無法無天的徹夜歡合,如乾柴烈火覆水難收。肉體的歡愉、禁忌的血緣、沒有未來的放肆,在愛情與生命都將終結之前,二人最後看見的風景,名叫 —— 活著。
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另一本為曾寶儀《#一期一會的生命禮物》,透過她真實經歷的四段旅程,在阿姆斯特丹,見到第一位合法執行安樂死的醫生,他說死亡為什麼不能是一場盛宴?在瑞士,和 104 歲的人瑞擁抱,她開始不斷與七年前的自己對話在洛杉磯,見到「Hamony」,世界第一具 AI 人工智能性愛機器人。在美墨邊界,很多人看見了暴力,分離,界線,隔離,但對這裡也有愛,勇氣和希望。在聖地牙哥,一場「長生不老大會」激情展開,那是令人完全無法想像的未來世界。這本書希望是一趟思考的旅程,更靠近真實自我的旅程,直視生命的旅程,以及全然自由的旅程,當旅程結束,你也有了一份屬於自己一期一會的生命禮物。
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此次先介紹三本華文作品,若要選一部個人最喜愛的本土劇集,無疑是現在正在播出第二季的《俗女養成記》,而原作者江鵝也推出了另一本散文集《#俗女日常》,有別於上一本以在傳統中藥店家庭養成的台南女兒故事為主軸,最新文集不改幽默詼諧本色,卻更多聚焦於成長後在台北打拚的都會熟女人生。江鵝曾在訪談中表示,她跟「陳嘉玲」最大的共同點,是中年對生活各面向的反思,還有勇敢離開職場,做一個普通女人。這本《俗女日常》,也可說是這位勇敢的「普通女人」醒悟後學著做自己的第一手實驗記錄。回到俗女的日常,說普通也不普通,玲瓏通透的智慧和文采,清爽的文字挾帶著不可言說的魔力,既療癒又提點,不只讓同世代的六年級女生心有戚戚,五至七年級的都會女子讀來應該也都會覺得毫不高深,卻又如獲天啟。
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其次為,胡晴舫主編的《#我臺北我街道》,集合不同世代、不同背景的二十位作家的全新創作,他們各自以詩、散文、小說書寫記憶中的台北街道。小說與詩提煉出意象,散文貼近個人記憶與生活,不同文體、長度產生不同的閱讀效果,就像散步每一條街道感受到各自獨特的氛圍。焦元溥寫消失的羅斯福路唱片行,馬世芳寫來不及參與的麥田咖啡館,張亦絢寫她的木柵路,崔舜華寫她的潮州街,吳鈞堯寫他的重慶南路,何致和寫永遠在他心底流動的西藏路,馬欣寫敦化南路的前世今生,王盛弘、羅毓嘉在這座城市私藏了他們的男孩記憶,郝譽翔在椰林大道度過了她的憂傷青春,以曲折方式學會在台北安置自己的馬翊航、王聰威,更有陸穎魚在台北街頭思念香港,顏訥在往生者帶領下探索她不知道的台北,陳雨航在文章不斷叩問,自己是否是台北人?而被言淑夏形容為春天繼母的台北街道,也有楊佳嫻的 236 公車呼嘯而過,裡頭住有陳宛茜認識的清朝耆老、陳又津描寫的公娼,以及駱以軍眼中身懷內力的各路高人。除了作家視角,更有來自法國的攝影師余白,用鏡頭拍攝他安身立命這麼久了的第二個家。閱讀他們的台北,讓我們更深刻了解這座城市。
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第三本是兼具編劇與作家身分的劉梓潔新書《#希望你也在這裡》,她以這部小說,揭開路上的迷人和迷惘,熱鬧和寂寞。對生命的種種疑問,也許那些錯身而過的風景就是解答。有些人是天生的流浪者,有些人在飽嘗人的來去後才終於能夠出發,也有的人不知道前方有什麼,卻越走越寬廣。生命際遇各自不同的四個靈魂,在人生這張地圖上交錯前行,彼此纏繞又轉瞬消逝。面對旅途中的每個岔路,他們會做出什麼選擇?當漫遊變成探索,漂浪轉為追尋,旅程的盡頭,會有他們想要找的那個人,或者答案嗎?旅人歸來回首一望,種種混亂都已經過去了,一切才剛開始而已。
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此次翻譯小說特別想讀的,有《林肯在中陰》作者喬治桑德斯小巧精美的《#狐狸小八》,他回歸短篇小說場域,加上喬西卡迪諾的插畫,有著喬治歐威爾式荒謬的情節設定,狐狸寫給人類的一封信,卻真實地切中人與自然日益惡化的衝突。不過,桑德斯始終相信本質上是道德的,可以引導我們更好地去愛。只要記得,整個故事的敘事者是隻小狐狸,他嘗試學習語言與「人累」溝通,我們生而為人可以更溫柔地對待自然嗎?人類該如何回覆狐狸小八?闔起書本看著書封,不難發現作者虔心期許眾生的良善、平等與和諧。
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以及另一本同樣短小精悍的作品,西班牙作家胡利歐亞馬薩雷斯寫於 1988 年的《#黃雨》,被譽為是歐洲二十世紀文學的顛峰之作。在庇里牛斯山區一座荒廢的小村艾涅爾,1970 年代,那裡完全廢村。但屋舍仍矗立原地,在靜謐中、遺忘中,在冬雪中緩慢腐朽。老人安德烈斯是廢村僅存的最後一位居民。在寂靜和冬雪的包圍下,在悲涼和屋舍的廢墟之間。嚴冬漫長的十二月夜裡,只剩他孤零零一個人在艾涅爾度過黑夜。他喃喃念起逝者的眼眸、盤根錯節的回憶,那些死寂佔據破落凋殞裡的清醒與夢囈。這座村莊是真實存在的。瀰漫全書的孤獨、絕望、夢境與回憶,難以抵抗的時間年輪,深入存在的虛無,內心的孤絕、無力,理智和瘋狂。訴說時代如何遺棄鄉村,留予靜謐大地深沉的平靜。黃雨洗去一切,沒有人被銘記。
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還有等待許久的《魔戒》托爾金中土三大傳奇最終章《#剛多林的陷落》,繼《貝倫與露西恩》、《胡林的子女》之後,見證了第一紀元走向終結。這三大傳說既是《魔戒》那宏大背景的組成元素,更是《精靈寶鑽》必不可少的基石。講述人類圖奧在剛多林的旅居,包括他與精靈伊綴爾的結合、兒子埃雅仁迪爾的出生、部臣邁格林的背叛、隱匿之城的陷落和諾多族倖存者逃亡的經過。這個故事在托爾金想像的中土世界觀第一紀元中占舉足輕重之意義。遺憾的是,托爾金平生寫出的完整版本便僅止於那創作於青年時期的文稿,他雖曾著手重寫,但並未完成全稿。透過其子克里斯多福托爾金的整理,此書得以面世。
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當然,克蘇魯的話題還繼續延燒,《#夢尋祕境卡達斯:H.P. Lovecraft 幻夢境小說傑作選》仍不容錯過。《幻夢境小說傑作選》,是由一連串異次元空間幻夢境的相關故事所組成,收錄的十篇故事,以藍道夫.卡特的冒險事蹟作為主軸,再加上幻夢傳奇的重要篇章《奈亞拉索特普》、《烏撒之貓》與《末日降臨薩納斯》,和劇情看似獨立、卻對後續故事有重要連結的恐怖短篇經典《皮克曼的模特兒》,以及將上述元素串聯在一起的長篇故事《夢尋祕境卡達斯》。幻夢傳奇與克蘇魯神話最大的不同,就在於它偏向帶有微妙恐怖的奇幻故事,而非完全傾向克蘇魯神話深淵般的太空恐怖劇情。此外,洛夫克拉夫特在其他故事偶爾提及的諸多神祕地名(像是《死靈之書》中經常提及的冷之高原),也會在本書中完整呈現在讀者眼前,讓這個系列,與《克蘇魯的呼喚》相關故事息息相關,卻又展現出自己獨特的生命力。有趣的是,在這裡,作者本人的化身藍道夫卡特,會如同神話故事中的英雄,循序漸進,帶領讀者深入幻夢境,首尾相連,將各個段篇故事拼湊為一個完整的冒險歷程,打造出一個如同《魔戒》般,精彩刺激的傳奇故事。
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同樣帶有奇幻色彩的療癒小說是《#歡迎光臨夢境百貨:您所訂購的夢已銷售一空》,這個百貨公司是睡著後才能入場,客人們入睡後,進入最受歡迎的「達樂古特夢境百貨」,挑選陳列在眼前的各色夢境:想再次相見的人、期待前往的地方、害怕又想突破的事物,以及超乎想像、上天下海的瑰麗夢境等等,每一層樓都提供別出心裁的夢。這棟五層樓的百貨門庭若市,有睡長覺的客人,也有短暫睡個午覺的人類和動物。新人佩妮通過了與達樂古特本人進行的一對一面試,來到夢境百貨上班,準備好好推銷各個傳奇製夢師所設計的夢。然而,當她好不容易稍稍搞懂測量睡意的「眼皮秤」、從「夢境滿意度」轉換的支付系統等細節後,竟然惹下大禍,最貴的夢境費用從她手上被偷走了。眼看工作即將不保,她該如何化解困境?在這神祕的夢境百貨,在清醒與睡夢的邊界,她又將遇見什麼樣的人,以及他們心中渴求已久的夢?
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若注重推理閱讀樂趣的人,應該不容錯過這本暢銷小說《#喜鵲謀殺案》,當編輯蘇珊拿到艾倫康威最新作品的書稿時,她怎麼也不會想到這本小說即將改變她往後的一生。和這位暢銷推理作家合作多年,蘇珊對他筆下的偵探艾提克思彭德瞭若指掌。而艾提克思彭德系列是蘇珊任職的三葉草圖書出版最暢銷的書。為了工作蘇珊別無選擇,只能忍受艾倫種種惱人的行為舉止。在艾倫的新作中,艾提克思彭德來到派伊府邸,一座鄉村內的莊園調查一樁謀殺案。是的,其中有死屍和許多各懷鬼胎的嫌犯。然而隨著情節的推演,蘇珊不禁越來越懷疑,在這份書稿字裡行間隱藏著另一個故事:一個充斥著嫉妒、貪婪、冷酷的野心,以及謀殺的真實故事。
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接下來兩本是與女性議題有關,首先是關於一場性侵案與一封陳述書,打動上千萬人,也改變了美國司法的花漾女子故事《#這是我的名字》。2015 年 1 月 17 日,香奈兒米勒遭到史丹佛大學生布羅克特納酒後性侵。隔天,香奈兒在醫院醒來,才得知自己成了被害人。她不再只是香奈兒,在法律上,她被賦予了一個新的匿名身分:無名艾蜜莉 Emily Doe。香奈兒與艾蜜莉各自過著不同的生活。香奈兒繼續上班、社交、過日子,但她開始失眠,還會在沒人看見的地方獨自流淚、崩潰。艾蜜莉活在一個封閉的世界,她活在法院、警局,活在證詞與質問當中。沒人知道艾蜜莉是誰。而布羅克,這位有望代表美國參加奧運泳賽的明日之星,在被捕後不到二十四小時,就以十五萬美金交保,重獲自由。2016 年 6 月,歷經將近一年半,審判結果終於出爐,布羅克僅遭判監禁六個月。數日後,網路媒體 BuzzFeed 刊登了無名艾蜜莉的法庭陳述書,四天內點閱率破 1100 萬,引爆全美輿論。無數人民站上街頭聲援艾蜜莉,時任美國副總統拜登也公開支持。2018 年 8 月,加州針對性侵罪修法,該案法官遭罷免,布羅克的上訴被駁回,史丹佛也將他退學。艾蜜莉獲得了遲來的正義。2019 年,艾蜜莉以本名出版此部自傳《這是我的名字》。
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後者是被稱作少女版《使女的故事》的南韓作家尹異形《#兩封合格通知書》。女孩收到卵子評鑑合格通知書,根據最新生育法案,她必須在卵子迅速老化之前短短三個月內,進入生物資料庫尋找「準爸爸」,準備懷孕。如能順利生下小孩,將會獲得不愁吃穿的財富,簡直比進入理想大學更令人嚮往。自身亦是人母的韓國文壇怪物級新銳小說家尹異形,自道內心的女性主義者於江南站隨機殺人案之後被喚醒,對於女性遭輕視物化的現狀無比憤怒。本書虛構的駭人法案左右著青年的生涯抉擇,「生育」赤裸裸地淪為階級晉升的工具。擁有生育能力,難道就非得拯救人口危機不可?小說直指當今社會制度弊病,讀者驚嘆字字句句引人痛切共鳴。作者多次強烈表示,「不要繼承這個世界,不要繼承我們現在的生活。」無論是對自己生育的孩子,或是對這個世界的年輕世代,她都傳達了不得不把如斯醜陋世界交給下一代的歉疚感。她說自己的名字意思是「奇異的形狀」,特立獨行,敢於說出人所不能言。自從江南站隨機殺人案發生後,尹異形才真正意識到,自己所處的世界是多麼輕視女性、多麼獨尊父權意識。在數年後迅速席捲全球的 #MeToo 浪潮之下,她仍持續以書寫探索女性在和平狀態與受迫處境之下的各種不公體驗。
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隨著玄一道長高超的道法,兄長附身的事件也跟著落幕,總算又是幾年的歲月靜好,我也在有仙佛聖誕的時日,伴隨著父親前往道院參拜,每回也都會拿到老道長所贈與的平安符及壽桃、麵線……等等。
「記得是有一年的仲秋八月十五日,我們家鄉管叫做『月夕』,因為一年之中,只有八月十五日的月亮比其他月份的來得皎潔、明亮,因此又稱做月夕。小輩也都喜歡一年一度的供兔爺的盛事,雖然老道長的道院沒有這些民俗的活動,但八月十五日我的父親每年都習慣會上道院去看看老道長,因為這天恰好也是老道長的壽誕,於是那年的八月十五日,父親便帶著我及妹妹、兄長一同去給老道長祝壽。這天老道長特別地興致高昂,隨著來訪的賓客漸漸散去以後,道長要父親稍作停留……。
「三年前你和我商討的事,今天應該是適合敲定時間的日子,依我看,就幫小三挑個吉日入道吧……!」小三是我在家中依照排行,小時候的小名。老道長這麼跟父親說。「原來我自出生後,便落下了前世業障帶來的痼疾,也就是現在所說的狹心症和嚴重的黃疸,原本是養不活的,也是老道長殊行絕倫的道行,才可以換厄去濁,神通廣大地硬是把我從鬼門關拉回來。當時老道長說或許這小孩命中和仙佛有緣,不適合世俗的營生、喝世俗的米水,看他頗有仙骨、慧根,若要長命安養,就挑個三合吉日進住到宮廟來吧!可暫時避厄延年……」老和尚邊敘述著邊回憶孩提時期,自己所經歷過的一段往事,也是老和尚總角聚沙之年難以忘懷的塵封。
「我十一歲入道,進入道院,按照規矩都要有三年的觀察期,一般道觀三年蓄髮是規矩,有的教派要先拜小師,根據早期在內地的老道觀,規矩上會先找資格比較老的道長隨侍學習,這個階段道教的文化中叫做拜小師,但我的年紀在規矩上來講還是稍嫌小了一些。本來玄一道長是可以指定道院中較年輕的道長教導我一切道院生活的行儀及規矩,玄一道長直接就要我從早到晚隨侍在側,隨著幾位比我當時年紀稍長的小道士一同生活,一同學習,這在當時偌大的傳統道觀裡是違反習俗的,可見玄一道長雖然是道門中極有威望的老高功,但也可以看得出他的魄力與開通,否則如果沒有到滿師及相當的資歷,是無法親近如玄一老道長這般的遐齡道長。若要比較正式地經由拜度師過渡時期及學習一切的科儀、唱腔、戒律……等,這總得要一段漫長的歲月學習。
「玄一道長雖然已經屆屬鶴齡,但是無論是在身體上或意志上,卻比一般年輕的道長來得充沛許多。那幾年當中,是我成長過程中刊心刻骨、不敢或忘,很重要的一段韶華月夕。在數年當中,我不但熟讀《上清經》,並且因為兩度於夢境中親謁到茅山宗祖師昇玄先生,親傳口訣及符籙……,玄一道長認為我和茅山有宿世之緣,他更是護甚於前,殷殷教誨,並且數度把祖師司馬承禎的《坐忘論》清楚解說,傳以論外之玄,令我可以在稚齡之時,便可以體會大道之真諦以及如何在平常的生活中去約律自己,切莫率性而為,同時教導如何可以獲得心靈方面虛靜空明的境界……玄一道長為了在我年輕的靈魂注入不動的真理,在某一次和我講解〈大道篇〉時,忽然間很嚴肅地對著我說:『修道基本上要先修到形神合一,方可以到達久視長生之境,這是至玄至虛的,很抽象,但歷代祖師已經有不少仙真得此境界。道力了得的人,最終可以色身不滅,稍差者,也可以精神不亡……』玄一道長邊說著這些話時,很奇妙的是突然之間我剎那間看不到他的身軀,只聽聞到他講話的音聲,說實話,當時因為年輕,過去也從沒碰過這般情境,著實有些被震嚇住,不知如何是好。
「老道長在這次的示現中講了一段話,卻令我終身無法忘懷:『任何境界裡頭,切記六根永遠要和大道融合為一,如果自己的身體和大道從未分離,那要尸解又有何難?換句話說,若要修到通天徹地般俱足神通,只要可以體悟到大道的真諦,也不是難事,完全要視修道者自身之悟性而有高下之別,也因為如此,《抱朴子》的見解中才會有品級高下之判定。其實總的來說,神仙也好,悟道也好,總離不開上、中、下之分別罷了。司馬仙翁也把修成仙品的修道者好好地講解分析,修道獲得解脫就只有兩種類別,一種是可以獲得仙果,一種是可以修到尸解,要修煉到此,毅力和決心是極重要的條件。因此先根據不同的成就,又劃分為天仙、地仙、水仙等……』記得當時玄一道長還特別為我講解了《坐忘論》裡面的〈得道篇〉別講,這是老道長修煉了大半生,自己的心得……」(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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Om shrim hrim klim glaum gam ganapataye vara varada sarvajanamme
Ganesh 象頭財神咒 ~每天聽,跟著念,財源廣進,大發利市~
「嗡。嘎那巴底耶。梭哈。」
「嗡。嘎那巴底耶。梭哈。」
「嗡。嘎那巴底耶。梭哈。」
Ganesha象頭神
創始之王;障礙之王;賜福之神
也稱為:Ganapati
屬地:印度
象頭的象頭神可能是現代印度教萬神殿中最受歡迎的神靈;被數百萬尊敬。他也被佛教徒,耆那教徒和新異教徒援引。他對所有人都是仁慈和慷慨的。
創始之王,在創辦任何新企業之前,都要先尋求象頭神的祝福。
象頭神也是障礙之王,儘管有時也會引起憤怒,但有時只是為了吸引更多的崇敬,因此消除障礙但也創造了障礙。 Ganesha的另一面是,必須在新的冒險活動之前將他消氣,以免他在您的道路上放置障礙。
Ganesha向奉獻者們授予成功,勝利,繁榮,物質安慰,浪漫,愛情,更好的性愛以及超自然的力量和技能;但是,他也可以阻止所有這些事情,如果它受到侮辱和激怒,. Ganesha 是一種慷慨,富有同情心的人,很快就會給予幫助。 脾氣暴躁,但也很快冷靜下來,可以得到撫慰和安撫。 (但請記住一句古老的諺語:大象永遠不會忘記!)
• Ganesha 是印度教儀式中首先崇拜的神靈。
• 他是所有遊行隊伍中頭一個的形象。
•他是所有印度教儀式中必不可少的組成部分,除了喪禮。
歷史證據表明,象頭神早在公元前1200年就已為人所知。然而,在公元四世紀之前,倖存的描繪很少見。大約在公元五世紀左右,他才加入印度教萬神殿。
據信,Ganesha已開始化身,成為叢林部落尊敬的亞利安前大象精神。除了他的其他禮物外,他還被要求保護免受象群侵害。他被吸收到印度教萬神殿中,成為希瓦(Shiva)和帕爾瓦蒂(Parvati)的兒子。
• Ganesha 治愈身體,精神和情感方面的疾病。
• Ganesha 有能力從前世的業力中解放出來。
• 他會被孤兒召喚
象神(梵語:गणेश,音譯葛內舍;梵文拉丁轉寫:Gaṇeśa)印度教中的智慧之神,主神濕婆與雪山神女的兒子,戰爭之神室建陀的兄弟。由於象頭神負責統領眾伽那(gaṇa,一群侍奉濕婆的、喜歡搞怪的小神),因此他又名群主(gaṇapati,意即伽那之主)。他的外形為斷去一邊象牙的象頭人身並長著四隻手臂,體色或紅或黃,坐騎是他的老友、一隻狡獪的老鼠。在各種雕繪中,他一般是盤坐著或是翹起其中一邊的膝蓋。
對象頭神的崇拜非常廣泛,不侷限於原始的印度教與更早的婆羅門教;早期在佛陀時代,印度北方已經盛行原始密教,後原始佛教結合密教,出現最早的密宗,其中更演化出各大神祇的不同於當地教派思想、與修行之法,尤其在中原隋唐左右初期,印度高僧紛紛傳法向東遠播至中原隋唐朝,以及東瀛日本,向北則是由印度高僧有第二佛陀之稱的蓮華生大士傳播至西藏。
後中原密教經過滅佛行動,如今佛教中只剩西藏與日本仍保有像頭神的祭祀與修行之法,而中國各寺廟已不復見。
在早期印度密教,和在婆羅門教不同的是,以佛教"出離"與"解脫"為主要思想主軸,但卻有各種術法,其義旨在於幫助修行人"方便"修行。象神在大藏經"佛經密乘部"記載多處,其威能與術法不可思議,其旨,以方便法幫助修行者得其所需,印度密教翻譯的佛經其名號在中文翻譯為 "大聖歡喜天"是為善神。
其起因是在久遠前象神曾向"密教祖師金剛薩埵"與"觀音菩薩"投誠皈依,發誓護持密教行者。後更與十一面觀音化身結為夫妻;其本尊法門被密宗的祖師集結,由印度早期發展而成完整的系列(後佛與密教因教義高深,不被當世接受,消失於印度史),由印度高僧傳至唐朝(唐密)再傳至東瀛(成為東密)。後來唐朝政治因素而滅佛,中國的密宗信仰湮滅,象神信仰亦然。
但從佛經佛典當中,仍然記載許多法門以及其思想,尤其是《金剛薩埵說頻那夜迦天成就儀軌經》或《大聖歡喜雙身大自在天毘那夜迦王歸依唸誦供養法》等等。可見當時的印度密教的象神和原始婆羅門教以及至今的印度教,象神的信仰已有差別。《天神乘與佛乘之別》
其身有單身(二臂、四臂甚至多臂),在平常期多以財神(單身)之姿護佑眾生,若在密教圓滿次地上,則現雙身像以教化之(另一身是觀音)。
其本尊乃王者身、善神,經典更記載:象神源始自"大日如來",經雲《此聖尊自在天。即摩訶毘廬遮那如來。為饒益無福眾生。權化示現此像》;亦提到,此神有善身與惡身之別(乃深秘義旨),本尊王身是善神,其亦化身邪神(常隨魔、障礙魔)以及驕傲的天神之姿,常被密宗金剛神(金剛薩埵、觀音菩薩、大日如來的化身)踩在腳下,象徵征服自我邪念、魔難、障礙的意思。
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農曆七月十五日是摩訶目犍連超度他母親的一個紀念日。
他母親在生時,不信三寶,殺了許多魚鱉蝦蟹,又慳吝不肯施捨,因為這些罪過,而墮餓鬼地獄。
目犍連尊者趕快送飯給他母親吃,她左手遮著飯,右手將飯放進口中;但飯一入口就馬上變為火炭,不能吞食。尊者往求於佛,佛告訴他應設齋供養十方自恣僧(自恣是在僧團結夏安居的最後一天,對眾懺悔的儀式)。
因為他們德行大,有威神力能使現在父母、七世父母和六親眷屬得出三途。
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盂蘭盆的意思“盂蘭”是梵語,意思是“解倒懸”。這就好像我們人倒掛起來一樣,是很辛苦的,所以現在給他解開。
給誰解開呢?給我們過去的父母、祖先解開這個倒懸。我們誰也不知道,過去的父母、祖先是有功,或者是有過?有功的,固然是或者生到極樂世界,或者生到天上去,或者又生到人間做總統、做皇帝,這都不一定的。
那麼要是有過呢?
就或者墮地獄,或者轉餓鬼,或者變成畜生,這也都不一定的。農曆七月十五日是摩訶目犍連超度他母親的一個紀念日。他母親在生時,不信三寶,殺了許多魚鱉蝦蟹,又慳吝不肯施捨,因為這些罪過,而墮餓鬼地獄。
目犍連尊者趕快送飯給他母親吃,她左手遮著飯,右手將飯放進口中;但飯一入口就馬上變為火炭,不能吞食。尊者往求於佛,佛告訴他應設齋供養十方自恣僧(自恣是在僧團結夏安居的最後一天,對眾懺悔的儀式)。
因為他們德行大,有威神力能使現在父母、七世父母和六親眷屬得出三途。
任何人,若覺得自己脾氣很大,無明火太重,由這就知道你的過去父母、祖先沒有離苦得樂,所以他整天幫著你發脾氣,叫你造罪業,好快一點和他在一起。那麼你有這種感覺,就應該在這一天,做功德,來超度他們。超度他們,皆離憂苦,罪障消除。
我們在這一天要能供養三寶,這功德是勝過平日好幾百萬倍!七月十五供僧的意義《贊僧功德經》雲:諸法因緣生,安住希求意念中,為彼悉作何祈願,即得如是之成果。經云:僧如大地,能長養一切善法功德。又云:殊勝妙寶大德僧,長養眾生功德種,能與人天勝果者,無過佛法僧三寶。
齋僧的功德
1.儀表端正,容顏暐麗,人人見之歡見。
2.氣力蓋世,精神滿足,承事十方諸佛,無有疲勞。3.生天人間,壽命久長,康健無惱,命終之時,自然受生,不被病苦所纏。
4.事事安樂,不逢災逆,心想事成,無有困厄。
5.音聲清雅,容動三千大千世界;口常說清淨妙法,通達無礙,聞者無不信受而行。
近代禪門宗匠虛雲老和尚云:“佛、法二寶,賴僧寶扶持,若無僧寶,佛法二寶無人流布,善根無處培植,因此齋僧功德最大。 ”目連救母佛典《盂蘭盆經》中記載這麼一個故事,釋迦牟尼的十大弟子之一目連(亦稱目鍵連)得到神通後,想報答父母的養育之恩,他用神通眼觀察,看到已逝去的母親在鬼道中受苦,瘦得皮包骨頭不成人形。
目連十分傷心,於是用缽盛飯,用自己的神力送給母親吃,但是飯剛送到他母親手中,尚未入口即化為灰燼。目連無奈,請求佛陀幫助救救他的母親。佛陀說:“你母親罪孽深重,你一人救不了,要靠十方僧眾的道力才行,你要在七月十五日眾僧結夏安居修行圓滿的日子裡,敬設盛大的盂蘭盆供,以百味飲食供養十方眾僧,依靠僧眾的力量,救出你的母親。”
目連依尊師的指點,母親真的脫離了餓鬼道。佛陀還說:“今後凡佛弟子行慈孝時,都可於七月十五日佛喜歡日,備辦百味飲食,廣設盂蘭盆供,供養眾僧,這樣做既可為在生父母添福添壽,又可為已逝的父母離開苦海,得到快樂,以報答父母的養育之恩。”
願所生父母,或今存在,或已終亡,隨其所居,遂彼生處。唯願阿彌陀佛,觀世音菩薩,大勢至菩薩,光明照公,願力攝持,三障消除,五根成立,發菩提願,修淨土因。
存者得滿極齡,終歸寶剎;亡者即捐諸趣,便托蓮胎。
伏願我等孝順之心,深入至道之法,當來諸佛會中,同作應身眷屬。南無阿彌陀佛南無大願地藏王菩薩!
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