陈寅恪《王觀堂先生挽詞 并序》
——導言:1927年6月2日,清華國學院導師王國維先生以自沉昆明湖的方式結束了自己的生命。好友陳寅恪寫下《王觀堂先生挽詞並序》,稱得上韻體文字的大著述,寫法很像王國維《頤和園詞》。《挽詞》長一百一十二句,可謂觀堂(王國維)其人學問與政治命運的哀歌。其主旨在於書寫王國維的學問歷程與高才隆遇,多述掌故,既深惋王國維之死,也藉此自抒懷抱,以清詞麗句編織結構而成絕唱。
此詩陳氏應初撰於1927年王國維自沉後兩三月間,後復撰一序及一挽聯,暢發其旨。挽詞、序言與輓挽聯乃是一個整體。陳氏曾將此詩奉贈羅振玉等師友指教,也下發清華國學研究院學生研讀,並通過《國學月刊》《學衡》等雜誌發表。
當代著名學者劉夢溪先生在《王國維、陳寅恪與吳宓》一文中認為,陳所撰《挽詞》的長序,闡述了作者的文化觀點及王之死因,不僅對王之選擇赴死給以文化意義上的正解,同時也是解開二十世紀中國文化與社會變遷謎團的一把鑰匙。「中國文化」這個概念,實際上是晚清和近代知識分子自我反省其檢討傳統的用語,對中國文化本身而言,是「他」者的概括。所以上一個百年,這個概念雖被過旋轉不停地給以討論和解說,而終無結果。以至於晚年的錢鍾書先生,與來訪的學人開玩笑,說誰再是講東西方文化,我「槍斃」他(說的時候他拿起一支筆)。
陳《輓詞》序的過人之處,是指出以綱紀之說為表徵的中國主流文化的意義,具有「抽象理想的之通性」,也就是柏拉圖的所謂理念。實際生活中是否能夠完全做到是另一回事,但它是傳統士子倫理上的人生規範。晚清以降的劇烈變動,既是社會結構的變遷,又是文化思想的變遷。簡而言之,傳統文化的核心從此崩塌了。因此為傳統文化所化之人的失落與痛苦,可想而知。王國維就是這樣的人。但失落與痛苦可以有不同的走向。由痛苦而新生,為更多的知識人士所選擇。既是未趨步新潮,也不必即死。但陳寅恪先生認為,像王國維是以文化託命之人,「此文化精神所凝聚之人,安得不與之共命而同盡」。因此,王國維之死,不是殉清,而是殉為其所化的那種文化、那種文化理想、那種文化精神。
「吾儕所學關天意」,王國維先生曾說:「國家與學術為存亡,天而未厭中國也,必不亡其學術。天不欲亡中國之學術,則於學術所寄之人,必因而篤之。」九十年後再讀斯文,我輩學人,當知王國維先生之死對於文化中國的深刻影響,陳寅恪先生和血痛書的所切所籲。——2017/06/03 來源:鳳凰網)
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王觀堂先生挽詞序
——陳寅恪
或問觀堂先生所以死之故。應之曰:近人有東西文化之說,其區域分劃之當否,固不必論,即所謂異同優劣,亦姑不具言;然而可得一假定之義焉。其義曰:凡一種文化值衰落之時,爲此文化所化之人,必感苦痛,其表現此文化之程量愈宏,則其所受之苦痛亦愈甚;迨既達極深之度,殆非出於自殺無以求一己之心安而義盡也。吾中國文化之定義,具于白虎通三綱六紀之說,其意義爲抽象理想最高之境,猶希臘柏拉圖所謂Idea者。若以君臣之綱言之,君爲李煜亦期之以劉秀;以朋友之紀言之,友爲酈寄亦待之以鮑叔。其所殉之道,與所成之仁,均爲抽象理想之通性,而非具體之一人一事。夫綱紀本理想抽象之物,然不能不有所依託,以爲具體表現之用;其所依託以表現者,實爲有形之社會制度,而經濟制度尤其最要者。故所依託者不變易,則依託者亦得因以保存。吾國古來亦嘗有悖三綱違六紀無父無君之說,如釋迦牟尼外來之教者矣,然佛教流傳播衍盛昌於中土,而中土歷世遺留綱紀之說,曾不因之以動搖者,其說所依託之社會經濟制度未嘗根本變遷,故猶能藉之以爲寄命之地也。近數十年來,自道光之季,迄乎今日,社會經濟之制度,以外族之侵迫,致劇疾之變遷;綱紀之說,無所憑依,不待外來學說之掊擊,而已銷沈淪喪於不知覺之間;雖有人焉,強聒而力持,亦終歸於不可救療之局。蓋今日之赤縣神州值數千年未有之鉅劫奇變;劫盡變窮,則此文化精神所凝聚之人,安得不與之共命而同盡,此觀堂先生所以不得不死,遂爲天下後世所極哀而深惜者也。至於流俗恩怨榮辱委瑣齷齪之說,皆不足置辯,故亦不之及云。
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王觀堂先生挽聯
十七年家國久魂銷,猶餘賸水(昆明湖)殘山(萬壽山),留與纍臣供一死;五千卷牙籖新手觸,待檢玄文奇字,謬承遺命倍傷神。
觀堂先生靈鑒 後學陳寅恪拜挽
說明/1927年6月2日,王國維自沉於頤和園魚藻軒。其遺書云:「五十之年,只欠一死,當此事變,義無再辱。」清祚告終於宣統三年(西元1911年),距離王國維之死17年,「十七年家國久魂銷」即指此。「牙籖」指書籖,「謬承遺命」指遺書中委託陳整理書籍之事。此聯一出,時人紛紛贊之,被譽為挽聯中最佳之作,無論在思想和藝術上都有深刻價值的作品。
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【郵票、東奧、父親】
《遙遠的興趣 ,記憶的沉箱》
今天是父親節,東奧也將在今晚8:00舉行閉幕典禮,賽事在全球疫情肆虐中,史無前例沒有觀眾下舉行,希望是空前也是絕後。
這段時間國人一方面擔心疫情、疫苗,一方面聚焦我國選手的表現,這種共同緊張又興奮複雜的心情,相信是永遠的國民感情。
「感謝」我國所有選手優越的表現,拿到奧運史上最好的成績、獎牌,讓國人無比歡欣驕傲,我們都知道每位選手背後都有勵志感人的故事,值得肯定學習。體育賽事也成就了全民運動,未來也期待他們更佳的表現。
所幸疫情也同時降到最低,確診數、死亡數今天都降到個位數,10萬劑莫德納疫苗下午也抵達,未來挑戰還需國人團結走下去。
父親節的此時,加上奧運的閉幕,對我來說卻勾起一個《遙遠的興趣》,打開《記憶的沉箱及父親的淚水》。
《故事是這樣的》
自小體弱多病,小學三年級時肺結核確診,在那個時期簡直如得癌症般的噩耗,印象中很長一段期間,父親帶我到處看醫生,有次父子兩人在樓梯口對看,在父親的眼珠中我看到他的淚水,自忖可能來日無多,所幸到六年級時痊癒,但這一段病史也影響我一生深遠,從小看透很多事情,養成不會計較的個性,悲天憫人,樂於助人,喜歡文史,也立志學醫,從政算是一個偶然。
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今開箱找出1964年東京奧運的日本郵票,印製精美的彩色郵票,印象深刻,那一年我是初中一年級(新竹一中),加上之前1960年亞洲鐵人楊傳廣於羅馬奧運十項全能奪得銀牌,是我國奧運史上第一次奪牌,轟動全國,1964年再戰東京奧運,當年吳阿明掌旗,紀政亦入列,國旗飄揚,牌舉「Taiwan中華民國」進場,全國矚目卻飲恨第五名沒能奪牌。
今日東奧閉幕典禮,57年後同為東奧,成績不可同日而語,史上最佳,國人之榮。
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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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查良鏞死了,藍潔瑛也死了,今年戊戌,離世的名人很多,但這兩人是不同的。他兩人的命造,常出現在我們的八字紫微課堂上。
查良鏞擁有一個近乎完美的八字,凶星生旺吉星,金木水火土,任何五行對他都有不同作用。
動盪的時代,流離的歲月,貧困的日子,造就了他創作不朽的作品。名滿天下,金錢來了,女人來了。財生官旺,社會地位,權勢影響力,什麼都來了。鄧小平親自接見,視為香港國師,他也自視如此,建議香港九七後的政治模式,推出「雙查方案」。
藍潔瑛是另一個極端,她拿的,是一個糟糕透頂的八字組合。
什麼才是最差的命?
平庸、貧困、孤零、愚蠢、多病,都只是平凡人,一生基層生活而已,你我大部份人都如此。不好,但談不上不幸。
給你貌若天仙,給你才華機會,給你舞台掌聲,給你顛倒眾生,城中公子都想一親香澤。但這些加起來,都不是幸福,而是製造痛苦。
比劫生傷食,傷食又迴剋官殺。任何上天的祝福,都變作人生的詛咒。
愈是名滿天下,愈是多人追求,她的任性、脾氣就會發作,最後傷害的,是男緣和事業。
一生人,只有十年的好運。所謂好運,也只不過是行印星,名滿天下,才華出眾,但印生比劫,比劫生傷,又迴剋官殺……成名,只是等待更大的傷害來臨。
她生前,得到的關懷友誼很少;死後,廉價的同情很多。想盡辦法一親香澤的男人多,給她倚傍,給她幸福,願和她走半生的人,根本沒有。
她不易相處,她亦飽受欺凌。
欺凌她最甚的,不是命運,不是什麼大哥,是新聞界。
對她尤甚於對蔡楓華。
生前,媒體對她用刀,刀刀見骨;死後,將她捧上天空,只是突顯她一生寂寞。
命理中,吉星生旺凶星的表表者。理論上,金木水火土,五行都不能用。
兩個極端的命造,就常常作為我們上課的例子。
一陰一陽之謂道。
宇宙間第一條法則,有陰就有陽,有陽就有陰,幸福背後必有遺憾,愈大的幸福包藏的,必是愈大的傷痛。
查生於1924年甲子年浙江,近代史上最動盪的歲月,成長於日本侵華的時候,抗戰勝利,四五年入上海大公報當翻譯。
如果是太平歲月,他一生就是報社翻譯了。
但抗戰勝利 ,國共又大戰,四九年中共建政,他要避秦香江了。
外省人在香港人浮於事,只能再入大公報,和在左派電影公司當編劇謀生。
微薄收入,他們一家只能租住簡而清的一個房間。
坎坷的歲月,在培養一支名成利就的命運。
五五年,一場比武,白鶴對太極門兩大高手,要擂台決一生死。香港政府不批准,澳門何賢主辦在澳門舉行。香港人追此新聞如癡如醉。新晚報總編見此氛圍,建議兩位同事在報寫武俠連載。
陳文統化名梁羽生,寫《龍虎鬥京華》,查良鏞化名金庸,寫《書劍恩仇錄》。
這就是凶星生旺吉星的最佳寫照。
《書劍》之後,就是《射鵰》。
1959年,單憑兩本書的版稅,他已急不及待,在灣仔和太太朱玫,創辦《明報》,開始《神鵰俠侶》的連載。
平步青雲,金庸神話開始了。
完美的八字組合,凶星生旺吉星的結構,金木水火土可用的五行,大運的配合,但仍有天干合化,不見了通關之神的流年。
四名子女,最寵愛的大兒子查傳俠,七六年在紐約自殺身亡;查遇到了細他三十年的阿May,和朱玫離婚。朱玫和查家任何人斷絕往來,一人獨居灣仔唐樓,在《明報》創業的路段拾荒,最後死於街頭。
她用這個方法對查報復,查家的幸福要帶有她朱玫的淚影。
我和大部份香港人一樣,少年時代都是看金庸小說長大,和看明報社論了解國情。離開學校後,我曾經在他的報館工作,近距離看過他的老闆威嚴和帝王權術。
明報著名人工低,稿費低。
但老闆總有他的看法:
工資,是由市場決定的,
市場價值又基於供求。
人人都想來明報上班,在明報寫稿。
我們每年暑假,都收到幾百封,來自港大中大畢業生的求職信。
我們不需要調整薪金的,
因為,來明報,不是為錢,
是光榮來的…………………
在編輯部,似乎沒有人敢和他說話,包括當時的總編輯潘粵生,都是他召見,他在說,其他人在聽。
不明白的,也不敢問。
除了字房的No.2肥佬翁枝。
每到深夜,只等查生的社論未寫好,翁枝就拿著他版檯用的那鐵尺,在查的房門拍打:
出唔出報紙呀?
係咪唔出喇?
星島喺條街賣緊喇!
唔出報紙了嗎?
王司馬是明報明周的美術主任,他死的那一天,查叫了採訪主任龍國雲(筆名陳非),入他房間。阿龍出來,一言不發,拚命吸著他的煙斗。
不斷噴煙,好一會兒,喃喃自語:
(我在他對面,但他應該不是對我說)
喪禮報館負責。
老闆叫我,看著辦!
看著辦,看著辦,什麼是看著辦?
八千元是看著辦,八萬元是看著辦,十八萬也是看著辦。
其實,老闆想點搞呢?
他喜歡下條子,在編輯部同事的檯面玻璃壓下字條,寥寥幾字,看得懂的跟著執行,看不懂的,猜著執行。反正,沒有人敢問。
他享高齡過世,死後極盡榮哀,有人比擬他為中文世界的莎士比亞。事實上,我們上課時,舉例用金庸小說人物,比用《紅樓》《三國》效果好,幾乎人人都知你說的是誰。
但打過他工的人,很少對他有好感。那些早期高層,當過總編、主編的,多年後見面,像梁小中、韓中璇,說起老查,都是大罵。印象中,只有潘粵生,謹慎,說起查生,他都不搭嘴。
至於藍潔瑛,生前死後,旁人對她的說話,是截然不同的。
世間對她的關愛,諷刺地,由她死後開始。
我在TVB時,正值她艷絕五台山的開始。論古裝,電影王祖賢,電視藍潔瑛。但她不珍惜,那時,鄭裕彤的二公子鄭家成在追求她。
電視台幕後,說起她,都說難搞,無法溝通。
戲劇組的人說,她不看報紙雜誌劇本,嫌油墨骯髒;黑口黑面,遲到,唔想做。
綜藝科的人說,她無腦,叫她上婦女節目,做做宣傳,叫她帶些旅行各地買的東西入廠,說說見聞。她帶了十個八個大小不一的LV皮箱。
娛樂記者說她,好實際。屈男人入時裝店,買一堆衫,什麼尺碼都不理。翌日,車回時裝店,問老闆半價收不收回?
反正,關於她的,從沒有一句好說話。
死後的美語好說話,如果能分一半在生前對她說,那她的人生,是否沒有那麼寂寞?
金庸有一套武俠小說全集傳世,其實,藍潔瑛也不差,《大時代》的玲姐,對著鄭少秋、劉松仁、劉青雲這些高手,一分不蝕。有幾場戲,一直在我腦海中,劉松仁死了,鄭少秋歪理癡情,一堆爛泥的劉青雲,她淒苦無援,連死都好像沒有資格。《西遊記》中的春三十娘,冷艷執迷,眼神鋒利而撩人心魄。可能,這些才是真正的藍潔瑛。
她的真實人生,不懂得表達自己,要通過戲劇角色,將真正自己釋放出來。她的真我一直困在肉體內,她不懂得在俗世生存。
我眼中,藍的才華,不亞於金庸。
2018年11月6日星期二下午5:00
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