關於 高雄彌陀寺 ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【佛光山早課】

夜宿高雄佛光山舒適的「麻竹園賓館」, 夜晚山上十分寧靜， 九點我就上床了，在萬萬籟俱寂的佛光山睡得很沉。

我曾在日本、韓國投宿過寺廟，前者叫「宿坊」，後者叫「Temple Stay」，麻竹園的水準完全可以與之媲美。一進房門, 洗手間分開兩邊，乾濕分離，兩個雙人床像是商務飯店標準。

一大早五點起床，天還是濛濛光，早起的鳥兒已經嘰嘰喳喳。走去大雄寶殿，滿禎法師已經在門口等候我們了，然後列隊在大殿外。前面就是廣闊空曠的「成佛大道」，我在廿多年前就被這裡的氣勢磅礴而震撼。

仔細欣賞「大雄寶殿」四個大字雄渾有力，看上去熟口熟面，似曾相識，原來是張大千的親筆墨寶。慈悲的星雲法師早已開放了版權，任由天下寺院免費借用，山寨A貨這個金字招牌, 無任歡迎。左右的對聯已經預告了殿內供奉的是三寶佛。

上聯為「兜率娑婆去來不動金剛座」，「兜率娑婆」，說明釋迦牟尼佛從兜率內院降誕到娑婆世界來，「去來不動金剛座」，法身如如不動地坐到中間的金剛座上。　

下聯為「琉璃安養左右同尊大法王」, 「琉璃安養」，琉璃世界的藥師佛、安養淨土的阿彌陀佛，「左右同尊大法王」就是兩旁就是藥師佛和阿彌陀佛。

大雄寶殿正中央端坐釋迦牟尼佛，左右端坐著藥師佛和阿彌陀佛，四週牆上共有14800小洞，各奉佛像一尊，光明燈一盞，莊嚴肅穆。

到了五點半，法師們、佛學院學生們及佛子們排隊，魚貫而入大殿,，男女眾分開席地而座。先誦《爐香讚》三遍，再誦讀《地藏菩薩本願經》。唱誦完畢，就步行去可以容納二千多人的齋堂過堂吃早餐。早餐十分豐富，菜乾粥以及紅豆、菠菜、蘿蔔乾等。

早餐後滿禎法師帶我們去散步逛曼陀羅園，這裡還有一條美食街，當時尚早還未開門。曼陀羅園種滿了各色漂亮的玫瑰花、充滿童趣的十二生肖小沙彌石雕，令人忍俊不禁。佛光山真的很大，還有一個「草食動物園」，這裡還有一隻漂亮的孔雀開屏歡迎我們!

@溫暖人間 576期

「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

《奇妙的鳳眼菩提》

最早接觸到唸珠約莫是在我十三四歲左右吧！那時是隔壁鄰居一位年長的老太太去高雄一座寺廟禮佛，請回來一串十四顆的手珠，雖然是塑膠加上螢光劑的材質，但也煞是好看，因為晚上睡覺時它還會有晶瑩剔透、黃藍顏色的光芒，這串唸珠也伴隨了我不少年的時光。生命中的第二串唸珠印象非常深刻，是我初次皈依的師父所贈與一百零八顆的星月菩提子，這種菩提子比較多是從印度以及中國的南方所產，它是屬於熱帶地區的產物，其中屬中國的星月菩提是所有世界上品質最完美的。
　
師父所給的那串星月菩提，起初剛請來的時候有著淡鵝黃色的底色，每一顆珠子上面密密麻麻布滿了點狀如芝麻的黑點，樣子真的像煞了夜晚湛藍色天空中閃閃發亮的星星，師父只叫我用這串唸珠好好地唸佛。比較特別的是，每一顆珠子裡邊似乎還存在著另外一顆小豆子，因為有時候輕輕搖晃時，還會聽到沙沙沙的撞擊聲，這種老的星月菩提子唸珠在往後我接觸念珠的過程中，似乎極難再碰見，這條唸珠至今還保留在我的佛堂，從淡黃色到如今整串變成深咖啡色，並且也已經包漿，我非常重視這串唸珠，畢竟它有它特殊的意義存在。如今我還請製錦盒的師父特別用上好的錦緞量身定做，讓這串唸珠功成身退地安置在佛堂的清靜處。
　
幾十年持咒唸佛的過程中，也接觸過無數的星月菩提，我喜歡星月菩提透過唸佛人一心專注，把全部的身、口、意灌注在佛珠的那種感覺，再經過歲月的摩搓盤唸，色澤不斷在轉化過程中，心中所生起的歡喜心和成就感是旁人無法了解的，多年以來在我手裡由白轉深的星月菩提無法枚舉。初時是因為喜歡，也用心地盤唸過，漸漸地一有機會為了與道友結緣，或讓新蓮友方便唸佛，我一段時間甚至一次請上百條與人結緣⋯⋯。
　
隨著菩提子因緣的緣故，再加上時光不斷地代謝荏苒，有不少的文玩古董商手中也收藏不少的老菩提子唸珠，一方面從結識老道友處日濡月染，也見識到不少的典藏版唸珠，其中最令我刊心鐫骨的是我從一位老藏人胸前所佩掛的一串鳳眼菩提子，整串唸珠已經被這位修行人持誦到透發著紫紅色的光芒，隔珠上還點綴著藏人鍾愛的老綠松石圓珠，更是窮極形誇美妙，我目不轉睛地盯看著，友善的藏人會意地從脖子上大方地遞到我眼前，我不好意思地說道欣賞就好，因為這對修行者來說是一種尊重，唸珠不輕易過手他人，一般人堅信會破壞自己本身的加持力，在那時期我對鳳眼菩提的曼妙尊貴身影，在心中烙下了深刻的痕跡，往後也因為有著善緣，可以請得極上品的鳳眼菩提⋯⋯。
　
在古董文玩雜項界中，其實也不乏收藏菩提子的藏家，大數都會以收藏鳳眼菩提為大宗，原因在於它盤久了，溫潤包漿的外表是一般人的鍾愛，每一顆珠子都會有細細長長如同鳳眼一般的菩提眼，更令人有種吉祥、貴重之感，難怪如今鳳眼菩提已經被炒作到一串要價至少台幣十萬塊起跳，我還曾經詢問到一串叫價五十萬台幣，甚至也有要價近百的鳳眼菩提。它的身軀愈小巧卻愈值錢，幾年前無意間託人從尼泊爾帶了幾串六公釐和七公釐的鳳眼菩提，那時價錢很一般，一串不會超過千元台幣，相去懸絕的天價差距，令人咋舌。
　
上等的鳳眼菩提從古至今都屬尼泊爾的小鳳眼，它生長的區域都會是在海拔一千公尺以上的山區，氣候的好壞也會影響到它的品質，根據我多年持誦鳳眼菩提的觀察，雖然每一顆菩提子都長有鳳眼，但其中的形象卻千差萬別，有些屬於細長形，如京劇中青衣描繪之鳳眼一般細長而美，有些卻頗似花瓣，不連貫，但可以辨識得出它的眼型，也有些長得像龍眼菩提，中間呈現三角狀⋯⋯這些我都曾經擁有持誦過。總而言之，觀察何為上等鳳眼，當然是以挑選圓密度愈高的愈好，再來就是肉身要感覺肥厚，紋路清晰如刻劃般，肉眼上觀察時顯得光滑不粗糙，放在手掌時要有一定的分量，愈沉甸愈屬極品，如果可以吻合優良外相的鳳眼菩提，只要用心盤唸，最後都會變成猶如紅寶石般吸引人目光的紅棗色⋯⋯。
　
深入佛典愈久，更進一步了解到修行人所使用的唸珠在經典中也有清楚地講述到，其中《較量數珠功德經》裡面有提到文殊師利菩薩曾經開示過不同的唸珠，原來還有它不可思議的功德，例如所用的材質如果是菩提子的唸珠，他所唸誦的佛號和咒語功德是可以用億萬倍來計算，菩提子所使用持咒的力量竟然是用俱胝倍功德來計算，可見好的菩提唸珠，它有著不可思義的功德和利益。我印象很深刻的是這部經中有一段說到，行者若有菩提子唸珠，就算無法如理如數地持誦，佩戴持有所獲得的功德跟利益卻是和所唸誦的咒語無二無別。
　
大家都知道，在密宗修持不一樣的法門，所使用的法器和規矩也都略有不同，例如修持寂靜尊，多半都是使用水晶或白顏色的；如果是修持阿彌陀佛，因為是屬於蓮花部懷愛尊，所以有些會使用珊瑚唸珠或紅顏色的數珠；如果是修財神法，則可以使用蜜蠟、琥珀等唸珠；如果是修持忿怒尊的本尊，有些都會使用人骨唸珠或獸骨、虎骨、羚羊等骨頭為主的唸珠。但是如果要使用這類唸珠，沒有俱足深厚的菩提心做基礎，有時會給持有者帶來無盡的後患。我碰過一位道友，一位喇嘛贈給他一串頭蓋骨的唸珠，自從他帶回家中以後，小孩無緣無故夜晚啼哭不停，老婆性情突變，閨房不和，他自己在事業上也極為不順⋯⋯好的唸珠也需要個人的福報俱足，否則擁有不見得是件好事。其實很多人應該要了解，修忿怒尊不是讓自己愈修脾氣愈不好，忿怒代表超越慈悲，反而是俱足四無量心的行者才可以修持此類密法，一般人儘量不要使用骨類唸珠，如有必要可以用黑曜岩水晶或綠松石、青金石這類唸珠，尤其綠松石在古代不修也有護身的功德，只是真正的綠松石不復多見，多數都數贗品居多，不宜輕購。
　
有許多人問及唸珠的數目，這在不同的經典中也有說明，我曾看過有修行人身上配戴過長及腰間的唸珠，多達一千零八十顆，但大多數都是一百零八顆，也曾看過一位專修懷愛法的行者，他的珊瑚唸珠卻只有五十顆，這其中各有密意。由於個人的因緣，接觸密法也已數十年，唸珠用在身上其實也各有不同的加持效應，一般上對下的加持都會使用自己唸過的唸珠，放置在弟子的頭頂，表示對他的加持，或者目前有重疾鬼病纏身，一般上師會用他修持本尊的唸珠，置於弟子的頭頂、雙肩、背部、胸前⋯⋯等處做加持，也有很慈悲的上師因為弟子有重大災難，需要度脫，甚至把自己持誦多年的唸珠要弟子日夜佩戴胸前，領受加持⋯⋯總之，唸珠的功德、妙處無法言喻。
　
唸珠的種類無法繁舉，但若要舉說有無一串唸珠可修一切法，如摩尼寶般，那經典中很清楚地明示，唯有鳳眼菩提有此功德，因此一生當中只要有一串和自己有緣的鳳眼菩提子唸珠，則修一切法都是如理如法。
　
王薀老師所使用的鳳眼菩提子唸珠
　
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參贊法會功德主，就是在供養三寶：佛、法、僧，舉凡法會的地方所用到的佛像、唐卡、八瑞供、八吉祥、法器、桌椅、包含地毯、一切鮮花水果、吉祥物等等都是在供養壇城，而供養壇城等於莊嚴了佛淨土，『人生在世，這樣的大布施、大護持、正法的機會殊勝難得』，邀請您和我們一起用善的力量，弘揚佛法，發心請願護持參贊，成為新年法會功德主～利益更多的眾生，同時也為在世的朋友消災納福！

種下成佛的種子，福慧圓滿，福報夠了、運氣變好了，做任何事情自然順遂多～急便遇到任何的困難，也能夠逢凶化吉，遇難呈祥！一起成就圓滿～萬僧祈福－菩提滿願新年大法會，阿彌陀佛～
雨揚老師舉辦新年大法會為最正宗圓滿，新年法會皆秉持先除障~二順緣~三招財的獨特修法，並禮請有證量之具德上師主法，修法內容豐富，儀軌如理如法；
今年雨揚老師更遠赴佛教四大聖地之一－釋迦牟尼佛成道處的菩提迦耶聖地請法，殊勝非凡。
您的一次參贊護持，名單共參加五場法會，印度聖地、台灣、馬來西亞，聖地串聯加持修法，為參贊結緣的你們祈福，祈願2020年金鼠年萬事順意，未來12年圓滿順遂。～雨揚敬邀

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(1)普巴金剛除障法
(2)聖地千僧天法二十一財神招財法
(3)聖地萬僧珍貴顯密圓滿教法
(4)黃財神水供招財法
(5)財神三主尊招財法

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點燈時間：2020/01/24~2020/02/02

🔹 聖地天馬旗（影音介紹：https://youtu.be/8JfWhFeQ3_0）
天馬旗又稱為風馬旗，隨風飄送四面八方，印在旗幟上的經咒也跟著傳送，利益眾生，功德無量。

🔸 聖地齋僧（影音介紹：https://youtu.be/ra_0ZclvHIQ）
齋僧指潔淨身心，敬設齋飯供僧之意。僧寶為無上佛田，能成為一切世間供養、布施、修福之處；能使施者因之遠離煩惱、去除心縛，得清淨心。


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庚子金鼠年，種下善的種子～展開未來12年全方位新局面！
把握年度唯一的新年黃金節氣， 庚子金鼠更是啟動全年全方位好運的最佳時機。參加法會是最快累積福報的方式，發心向善，參與殊勝法會，將得到諸佛菩薩之加持，助運一整年的吉祥好運！

參贊法會功德主，就是在供養三寶：佛、法、僧，舉凡法會的地方所用到的佛像、唐卡、八瑞供、八吉祥、法器、桌椅、包含地毯、一切鮮花水果、吉祥物等等都是在供養壇城，而供養壇城等於莊嚴了佛淨土，『人生在世，這樣的大布施、大護持、正法的機會殊勝難得』，邀請您和我們一起用善的力量，弘揚佛法，發心請願護持參贊，成為新年法會功德主～利益更多的眾生，同時也為在世的朋友消災納福！

種下成佛的種子，福慧圓滿，福報夠了、運氣變好了，做任何事情自然順遂多～急便遇到任何的困難，也能夠逢凶化吉，遇難呈祥！一起成就圓滿～萬僧祈福－菩提滿願新年大法會，阿彌陀佛～
雨揚老師舉辦新年大法會為最正宗圓滿，新年法會皆秉持先除障~二順緣~三招財的獨特修法，並禮請有證量之具德上師主法，修法內容豐富，儀軌如理如法；
今年雨揚老師更遠赴佛教四大聖地之一－釋迦牟尼佛成道處的菩提迦耶聖地請法，殊勝非凡。
您的一次參贊護持，名單共參加五場法會，印度聖地、台灣、馬來西亞，聖地串聯加持修法，為參贊結緣的你們祈福，祈願2020年金鼠年萬事順意，未來12年圓滿順遂。～雨揚敬邀

☛報名時間：即日起～2020/01/31（為完整參加所有修法內容，請盡早報名）
☛主辦單位：中華蓮花雨顯密佛學會
☛協辦單位：雨揚科技股份有限公司
☛請法內容：
(1)普巴金剛除障法
(2)聖地千僧天法二十一財神招財法
(3)聖地萬僧珍貴顯密圓滿教法
(4)黃財神水供招財法
(5)財神三主尊招財法

【聖地加請項目】
🔸 聖地點燈（影音介紹：https://youtu.be/Oo1Z8t-kT0E）
配合寧瑪巴祈願世界和平法會修法時間，將於聖地菩提迦耶南卓林寺內點燈。
點燈時間：2020/01/24~2020/02/02

🔹 聖地天馬旗（影音介紹：https://youtu.be/8JfWhFeQ3_0）
天馬旗又稱為風馬旗，隨風飄送四面八方，印在旗幟上的經咒也跟著傳送，利益眾生，功德無量。

🔸 聖地齋僧（影音介紹：https://youtu.be/ra_0ZclvHIQ）
齋僧指潔淨身心，敬設齋飯供僧之意。僧寶為無上佛田，能成為一切世間供養、布施、修福之處；能使施者因之遠離煩惱、去除心縛，得清淨心。


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高雄博愛門市：07-341-7758

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