「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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【今日小姐服務競賽】 #今日百貨
今日小姐服務競賽於1969年由今日百貨公司開辦,主要目的為鼓勵在校女學生利用暑假增進就業經驗,除提供簡單的培訓、量身訂製的服裝及差勤津貼外,表現優良者更可獲得高額獎金與優先錄用的機會。
由於獎勵頗豐,每次舉辦都吸引數百人報名參加,不僅有身高及學業成績的限制,更須經初、複試的層層篩選,最後挑出數十位佳麗代表各家廠商進行服務。
在競賽期間,顧客可透過消費滿額獲得的評選劵來進行投票,為心目中最滿意的人選爭取奪魁,買越多就可以投越多,不僅衝人氣也拚銷售,還可藉機儲備人才,可說是一舉數得。
#選美徵才兼行銷
#超前的商業頭腦
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來源:聯合報
日期:1970/8/16
攝影:龍啟文
圖說:第二屆今日小姐頒獎典禮,(圖前排右起)第一名的皇帝龍李蘊芳、第二名味全食品公司曹秀津、第三名蜜絲佛陀沈蘋、第四名獅王牙膏江朝鳳、第五名否司脫襯衫晏穗君合影。
歷史新聞
【1969-06-19/經濟日報/06版/】
今日百貨公司 舉辦「今日小姐」服務競賽
【本報訊】一項以在學女青年為對象,使她們利用暑期增進現代企業經驗,並可獲得就業機會,以及獎學金的活動,將於明(二十)日起展開。
這項定名為「今日小姐服務競賽」的活動,係今日百貨公司主辦,本報協辦。凡公私立中學或大專院校在學女生,本學期學業成績平均在七十分以上,身家清白,年滿十七足歲,身高一六○公分以上者,即日起均可報名參加。報名地點在今日公司地下樓人事室。
競賽辦法規定:在服務競賽期間每日下午三時至五時,八時至十時在指定櫃台工作,並向顧客作自我介紹,全部待遇新台幣一千元,另加交通津貼五百元,共計一千五百元。
競賽日期自七月十二日起至二十七日止,前後十六天,競賽項目包括有禮貌、服務態度、推銷技能、健美等,評選方式觀眾自由投票,評選券由今日公司印製,凡在此期間購貨滿一百元者贈送評選券一張,多購多贈,每晚九時在該公司一樓公開獲選票數。
評選結果以得票最多的前十名為今日小姐,第一名獨得獎學金一萬元、第二名六千元、第三名四千元、第四名三千元、第五名二千元、第六名至第十名各得一千元,十名以外依等次酌贈獎品,將於八月三日贈獎。凡參加競賽成績優良,如願於課餘時間參加今日公司服務,優先錄用為半勤員工,待遇另定。
【1970-08-17/經濟日報/08版/】
今姐昨獲頒獎
【本報訊】第二屆今日小姐頒獎典禮,昨(十六)日下午二時,在今日百貨公司舉行,由上屆的前五名今日小姐主持。
上屆的今日小姐張穗鳳、樂靜華、柯儀鳳、金麗娟、晏台華分別將今年的獎金、證書頒給第一名的皇帝龍李蘊芳、第二名味全食品公司曹秀津、第三名蜜絲佛陀沈蘋、第四名獅王牙膏江朝鳳、第五名否司脫襯衫晏穗君等。
全體參加服務競賽的四十四位今日小姐,昨天都參加了頒獎典禮,除前十名外,並有十名最佳小姐,該公司總經理徐之豐說,小姐們雖有名次先後的分別,但服務的熱忱都令人感動,除以千元獎學金致意外,並每人致贈紀念品一份。
昨天下午的今日公司,因觀看頒獎典禮,二樓擠滿了顧客,非常熱鬧。
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台南古榕 ◎楊牧
那裡我去過,中斷的劫數
在地理板塊遷移,產生
擠壓現象以前,曾經趺坐
久久體驗鉅大的孤獨
風雲在山區和草原飛
海水銜接處浮波洶湧似血
因心魔造次尋不到出路:
累積的憂鬱世紀曆法上重疊
烈日曝曬中止的意志
閃爍金光喧嘩,勢必──
身後將如山稜線游移
唯我自在空白無邊際
──且被多次造訪,隔著
著火的柵欄呼喚,使用臨時的
名字,一些有聲符號,和手語
叫我分心墜落如生澀的菩提
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小編哲佑賞析:
在台南成功大學校園內,有一著名老榕,為1923年昭和天皇親手種下,已近百年,是台南的代表形象之一。此詩寫於2001年,而2000年底楊牧曾前往台南成功大學駐校數日,或許即是這首詩的靈感來源。此詩表面書寫榕樹,實則以榕樹為起點,擴散到對台灣的歷史與生命關懷。
楊牧雖自言對佛教、佛學沒有深入研究(注一), 但其實楊牧詩作中不時對景物所持之空靈冷清態度,與佛學的靜觀正念頗能有相通之處,這首詩開頭出現的「劫數」與結尾的「菩提」,當然也屬楊牧對佛學的轉化挪用。本詩的第一段設想板塊遷徙擠壓,令人連結到台灣的地理處境:「劫」之意為巨大的時間計量維度,開頭以「那裡我去過」起始,表示這似乎是一再更迭的輪迴,劫數只是暫時中斷,實則仍在暗中運行流轉,久久的孤獨彷彿是等待下一刻的迸發、流血與綻放。趺坐為了參禪,以佛學來說,自然是為了領略那變化之上顛簸不破的般若空性;然則做為血肉之軀,眼見歷史浪潮洶湧如血,真能如此無動於衷?這首詩寫台南之榕,台南做為台灣開墾歷史的起點,有其象徵意義,比如第二段的風雲洶湧與心魔憂鬱,便可視為現世擾動心神的簡短描述,這既是指台灣的波折歷史,也是指許多身在歷史糾纏之中的人,如同於世紀交替之間寫下這首詩的楊牧,發現種種憂鬱亦不斷在重演重疊。
當年天皇手植此樹,如今島上的政權文化已歷更迭,而在天皇之前,種種交織輪替的文化更多;但一棵樹大概不會在意這些,尤其第三段把意志隔離,又回到勘破的視角,人有限樹亦有限,山陵亦可能為無,若體認到般若空性,自在空白無邊,就像那久久巨大的孤獨,是否就意味著那美滿冷清的境地?這是我們生命所追求的真相嗎?
答案是是,也是不是。第四段的開頭極其巧妙,破折號承繼了上一段,而「且被多次造訪」則扣回了第一段的「那裡我去過」;首先當然是主客的轉換,其次是用「多次」一詞暗示永無休止。若站在制高點的一端,名相是臨時的,語言、姿態甚至摩擦火光,都是世間虛假的幻影而已。但是詩人無法不動情,在趺坐之時,正因為有人不斷地造訪、呼喊,正是那一點點的分心變化,把看似無邊遼闊的精神境界拉回,變現每一個當下的時空,讓世界衍生了種種意義解釋。
或許我們可以對照〈妙玉坐禪〉這首詩。這首詩以紅樓夢中的妙玉經歷為主題,其中重複著「結跏趺坐禪牀/妄想必須斷除/一心趨眞如」三句,但妙玉的心念卻不斷被洶湧的欲望纏繞,無法抑制。楊牧在〈抽象疏離(下)〉中,講到了幾首自己較長的敘事詩,其中包含〈妙玉坐禪〉:
揭示一表面冰清玉潔的女尼終不能壓抑內心洶湧的狂潮,為愛欲雜念所折磨,致不能安於禪修,走火入魔,我回顧那許多年的創作,竟有了這樣一種傾向厄難的著眼,不免愕然……而詩之功能就是為了起悲劇事件於虛無決裂,賦予莊嚴回生,洗滌之效,以自覺,謹慎的文字。
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我以為我至少也正面,集中的宣說了勝利的主題,在〈平達耳作誦〉這首讚美的詩裡,但隱隱約約似乎強調的反而是怎麼樣的一種遺憾,輕度的失落感。 (注二)
儘管〈妙玉坐禪〉與〈台南古榕〉都有趺坐參禪的情節,但兩詩主旨氛圍大相逕庭,〈台南古榕〉當然從容悠遠的多。但後者最後的「分心」抽離,卻也彷彿是為了現世的某些遺憾而回神感傷,相較於「久久鉅大的孤獨」,那些似乎昭然若揭的生命真相,楊牧顯然更在意廣袤時空中短暫匯聚肉身魂靈,產生的種種執著與火光。佛陀在菩提樹下悟道,如果名號是暫時的,榕樹何嘗不能是菩提(注三); 只是這次,了悟的不只是絕世離塵的空性,而是如何在自在的大清淨中,為了許多動人心神的呼喚,甘於將匯聚的心一點點地拆散,彷彿落下的是菩提,亦是眼淚,是我們存在的依憑。
注一:楊牧自言:「〈和棋〉裡頭提到金剛經,那只是一個metaphor,我對佛經或佛學並沒有深入研究過。」其實除了〈和局〉,楊牧亦寫過〈妙玉坐禪〉、〈喇嘛轉世〉等相關於佛教主題作品,即便未深入研究,很難相信楊牧對佛學沒有一定的認識。見曾珍珍:〈英雄回家──冬日在東華訪談楊牧〉,《東華人社》第一期。
注二:見楊牧:〈抽象疏離(下)〉,《奇萊後書》,頁237-238。
注三:「菩提」本為「智慧」之意,而佛教中的菩提樹,為桑科榕屬的一種植物,亦有氣根、隱花果,為台灣原生種榕樹的近親。熟識草木鳥獸之名的楊牧,可能因此將二者連結在一起。
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作曲Composer:謝和弦/王士榛
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我今年33 也想要變成飛人喬丹
Kobe走的時候寫下傳奇締造了神話
蘋果賈伯斯改變世界留下偉大
我為什麽誕生為何生在台灣
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為什麼這個世界那麼多人只會廢話
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媽的fuck you那些臉
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這是謝和弦你知道的 身上帶點江湖味
這是台灣人你知道的 最美的是人情味
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快把你的女朋友顧好 因為我正在 操你妹
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你們一個兩個三個四個五個
六個七個八個九個十個
全部一起上我很忙
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說她想要想要想睡我家
你媽偷訂了跳蛋 你馬子偷偷按我讚
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編號2203
這是新店戒治所
編號2203
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音樂製作團隊 Music Production
製作人Producer:王士榛 奇洱文創
編曲 Music Arranger:王士榛
配唱製作人 Vocal Producer:王士榛
獨奏電吉他 Solo Electric Guitar:利維庸
節奏電吉他 Rhythm Electric Guitar:王士榛
吼腔 Scream Vocals:徐浩崴
人聲錄音師 Vocal Recording Engineer:王士榛
人聲錄音室 Vocal Recording Studios:上路錄音室 T.O.P Studio
混音工程師 Mixing Engineer:徐浩崴 奇洱文創
母帶後期處理 Mastering:Wayson Hsu 奇洱文創
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影像製作團隊 Video Production
導演 Director | 邵安澤 An-Tse Shao
製片 Producer | 黃柏蒼 Po Huang
製片助理 Production Assistant |
何佳儒 Jia Ru Ho / 王正元 Cheng Yuan Wang
攝影 Director Of Photographer | 林哲旭 Hsuxxvi
攝大助 1st Assistant Cameraman | 蘇聖涵 Sheng Han Su
燈光 Gaffer | 林大洋 Ta Yang Lin
燈光助理 Lighting Assistants | 林柏傑 Po Chieh Lin
燈光助理 Lighting Assistants | 周榮竹 Jung Chu Chou
燈光助理 Lighting Assistants | 張玉璇 Yu Hsuan Chang
美術 Production Designer | Nini
美術助理 Assistant Art Designer |
張靖平 Ching Ping Chang / 錢立昕 Li Hsin Chien
剪接 Editor | 邵安澤 An-Tse Shao
調光 Colorist | 邵安澤 An-Tse Shao
特效 VFX | 邵安澤 An-Tse Shao
攝影器材 Photographic Equipment|乒乓影像器材公司 Ping Pong Film Studio
燈光器材 Light Equipment | 上京影業有限公司 Sun Ging Post Production CO., LTD
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謝和弦R-chord 馬槽音樂團隊
服裝造型Stylist:莉婭Liya
化妝師Makeup:Julia Tseng (茱茱整體造型)
髮型師Hairstyle:Isaac (H Park)
藝人助理 Assistant :潘威利Willy
藝人助理 Assistant :唐鹿 Tang
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這件事發生在今年3月23日,任性的人快閃店結束營業隔天。當時我們正在整理與盤點,突然一名黑衣男子走了進來……
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等待佛陀 (Waiting for Buddha) Official Music Video
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詞曲/編曲/製作:杜振熙
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導演:杜振熙
副睪:發炎
製片:杜振熙
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動作指導:螞蟻
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