關於 淨車咒語 ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

我剛開的《唸咒改運學習群》內，我是坦然告訴大家兩樣東西：一，我這裡不是講佛理的地方，要學佛的去找外面很多的佛教大師就對了。二，我是嚴重質疑佛教的業障可以消除的思想。

群友也開始跟我們分享他們過去如何被業障思想捆綁。我這裡節錄兩個網友的反饋：

Yun Tat說：

其實 我有類似的經歷，以前很相信業障，然後很努力修消除業障，修到很入迷。

之後有一年 在1個月內，變得一無所有：店倒閉、投資虧到幹幹淨淨、本身經濟能力幾乎變成0、發生車禍、女朋友跑掉。。。

在往後3個月裏，我把所有barang抛開，不再念經，不拜神，不做儀式，遠離廟宇，收藏水晶法器丟到幹幹淨淨。

後來的一年內，漸漸好轉，現在生活還算不錯。

Huang Fu Lin說：

多年前，還沒接觸江魔的放下業障思想時。
有一年，一直覺得自己業障深重，所以只有懺悔業障可救度。
我開始，每天修懺悔。
不是修百字明，而是拜八十八佛懺悔文，一佛一拜。
一年中，我發生了2次車禍，雖然都是小車禍，但是都有破財。
那年，也是我最不順的一年。
我15歲接觸佛教，到後期的藏傳佛教，20幾年收入夠用，沒有存款。
接觸江魔，用了5，6年放掉業障跟佛教的思想。
現在收入是以前的三倍，有存款。

江魔有話說：

我放下業障可以消除的思想，不是突然間決定，也不是突然間頓悟，而是一段很長的時間，逐步的放下。當中影響我做這決定，比較深的原因有幾個。

第一，如果業障可以消除，就好像殺了人後，本來你是要接受法律制裁，但因為你認識掌權的人，他違反公義的不捉你。我就要問那些相信業障可以消除的佛教徒：「如果你認為宇宙有因果業報，你前世殺人後，這一世消除業障而不用受因果的懲罰，這個宇宙觀是有沒有問題？」

第二，雖然只是我個人觀察，那些勤修消除業障的佛教徒，十之八九是越消越麻煩，令我懷疑到底是真的消除了業障，還是製造了問題給自己？

這是真的排毒？還是藥物敏感？

不少的佛教徒喜歡說消除業障的過程，生命會出現排毒現象。但這也可能是過敏，你別把人家吃藥後會過敏的現象，說成是排毒。

你繼續服用過敏的東西，一些人生會有生命危險的。

就假設你吃到身體已經適應了過敏，但你也要問自己有甚麼意義？例如，我不喜歡吃螃蟹，而且吃了會過敏，我為何還要不斷吃會讓我眼嘴腫脹的螃蟹，吃到我身體適應了為止？

我本來就不喜歡吃螃蟹啊，訓練到吃了不過敏，也沒有任何意義。

第三，最原始的南傳佛教教義裡面，雖然承認業障的存在，但不認為業障是可以消除的。只有大乘和密乘佛教是認為可以透過一些經咒，消除自己的業障。

第四，修消除業障的人，會有可能消到上癮的，會自哀自憐的成為宇宙中的烈士。

一些佛教徒看到我這樣放下了業障思想，就會很機械式的說「不相信業障因果的人，會亂來，甚麼都敢做。」實際上，在美國的監獄裡面，極大部份都是屬於有宗教信仰的。

沒有業障思想的人不代表沒有道德，我反而更相信那些放下了業障思想而又不殺、盜、強姦的人，才是真正的有道德，因為他的道德不是基於他怕做了壞事會有報應。

（註：我等一下4點鐘後，會在《唸咒改運學習群》內直播分享一些與保身護命防疫治病相關的咒語，有興趣的朋友可以等一下到這個群去看。）

戴資穎在東京住小飯店的照片被媒體拿出來說事（那個房間拿著一枚銅板對空氣刮一刮似乎都可以刮出尼古丁來），朝鮮經貿文化情報 網站ＰＯ出平壤西山飯店的照片，稱國際選手參加國際競賽或國內競賽，一律都住在西山飯店。『西山飯店鄰近青春大街與各體育場館，近年才重新翻修，設備一流舒適，是朝鮮目前三間特一級酒店的其中一間。任何一位為國爭光的體育選手，都該受到國家最好的照顧與對待。』
此時ＰＯ出這樣的照片，不免有補刀的意味，但那飯店看著看著很眼熟，然後突然在心裡啊了一聲，那個飯店我住過，還寫過飯店開箱文！！！

《樂園》

飯店是荒山裡唯一的建築。入夜後，三十層樓高的氣派大樓於暗地裡綻放金色光輝，鬼魅得如一則《聊齋》。而飯店也真的叫做西山，《西山一窟鬼》的西山，當然，那與馮夢龍的鬼故事無關，純粹只是它坐落西山山頭，因而得名。西山飯店建於1989年，當年乃為世界青年與學生聯歡節參與者提供食宿而建，五百個房間的建築乍看方正，然而內部動線曲折而蜿蜒，2010、2011、2013、2014，沿途數來連號房間，拐彎，又跳回2001。走廊不開燈，得摸黑找到牆上面板，打開照明，一盞燈點亮一盞燈，找到回房間的路。

要說西山飯店不文明也太武斷，房間裡除朝鮮電視台，也可收看央視和鳳凰台，打開電視，溫瑞凡雨中抱著小姨子，通姦者喃喃自語，像咒語又像催眠：「精神出軌不算真正的出軌，精神出軌不算真正的出軌，精神出軌不算真正的出軌……」今時今日電視可以看《犀利人妻》，攜帶手機和筆電入境也可以，唯獨裡頭不能裝載南韓影視節目。手機上網，可以，但行前說明會聽聞領隊說五天1G流量需三百塊美金，只得嚥下口水，心想五天不上網，當網路勒戒算了。然而洗澡時動念尋思：「手機沒有訊號如廢鐵，加上護照、台胞證都扣在導遊手上，萬一出了事，我在這個城市不就徹底消失了？」正這樣想，頭上日光燈光閃了一下，刷一聲停電，黑暗追上來了。

我在平壤的第三夜。

事情是這樣的：年假期間，參加六天五夜的北朝鮮旅行團，團員加領隊僅僅十一個人的迷你旅行團，卻配置了兩個導遊，普通話說得極好的金小姐和申先生。男女搭配，當然不可能是為了幹活不累，而是相互監督，嚴防對方說出不利於國家的言論。兩人連日帶我們參觀凱旋門、萬壽台銅像、南浦水壩、人民大學習堂、祖國解放戰爭勝利紀念館、國際友誼展覽館、妙香山等景點，一棟又一棟花崗岩建築，全是彎彎曲曲的動線，到後來看了什麼都搞混在一塊了。

參觀少年宮是下午發生的事，趁著記憶還新鮮，在手機上寫下種種見聞：源自蘇聯，共產國家兒童課後才藝中心，號稱三萬坪空間，一千個房間，至多可以容納五千名孩子在這裡跳舞唱歌和畫畫。自妙香山回到平壤，抵達少年宮已是傍晚，金小姐催促著得抓緊時間參觀，天黑了，外面這麼冷，該讓小朋友回家啦。簡直是房仲帶著看屋似的，這個房間打開，一群打著紅領巾的小朋友圍著石膏像素描；下一個房間打開，兒童交響樂團大鳴大放演奏著華格納《女武神》；再一個房間打開，如同打開音樂盒，十來名芭蕾舞者歡快地跳起舞，小舞者甩頭踢腿，咧嘴笑容，動作複製著動作，笑容複製著笑容，舞者也複製著舞者。沒有個別的我，只有我們。

房間，房間，始終是房間。這個房間打開，有孩子唱歌跳舞，那個房間打開，是萬邦朝貢的禮物，中國國家領導人送來象牙、俄羅斯總統送來黑熊標本，非洲某小國國王送來的刺繡……國際上被孤立的國家需要這樣一棟友誼展覽館證明他們有多受歡迎。房間複製著房間，導覽複製著導覽，解說像咒語又像催眠：「這個少年宮（圖書館、禮品館），原定三年（五年、十年）完成，但軍民感念金日成主席（金正日將軍，金正恩元帥），軍民上下一心，不眠不休地趕工，不到一年時間就完成了。建築裡有一千個房間（三千、五千），可以展示三千萬本書（十萬種武器、一百萬種禮物），全部看完要十天（一個月，一年）」，括弧可以填上任何的景點，觀光客只需要走進房間，把自己放進括弧裡，拍照，填空，然後離開。括弧的房間是花崗岩打造，冰寒如冰箱，打開是明亮豐饒的幸福生活，關起門則是永恆的黑暗。

我們在彎曲的走廊裡兜兜轉轉，迎面走來一個小小芭蕾舞者，往洗手間的方向走去。小女孩臉上沒有剛剛在房間裡看到的快樂笑容，只是低著頭，快步通過。陸續參觀了幾個房間，然而更多沒有打開的房間裡是什麼？可會是《平壤水族館》、《我們最幸福》裡脫北者對大饑荒不堪回首的回憶？北朝鮮1948年建國後，仰賴蘇聯援助的特惠糧食度日，91年蘇聯解體，老大哥自顧不暇，又逢1995年水患，天災加上人禍，等於四年饑荒。饑荒是無法直呼其名的佛地魔，官方報紙不肯面對現實，略略提到國家有狀況，號召民眾像金日成當年率領抗日遊擊隊在滿洲同日本軍隊鬥爭一樣，進行一次「苦難的行軍」。此後，「苦難的行軍」變成饑荒代名詞。由於鎖國，學者們從不同的文獻交叉比對，死亡人數從二十四萬至三百萬眾說紛紜。

彼時，百姓以松樹樹皮磨成細粉取代麵粉，從農村動物的排泄物中挑出未被消化的玉米粒果腹。當年任教於幼稚園的脫北者美蘭說，孩子沒法帶午餐上課，上課時總趴在桌上睡覺，臉頰貼緊木桌，她扶起孩子的臉，孩子腫脹的眼皮緊閉著，頭髮散落在她手上，摸起來粗糙而脆弱。孩子隔天就沒來上課，永遠地消失，也沒人有力氣問為什麼，「1990年代的北韓，為了生存下去，人們必須狠下心不跟別人分享食物。為了不讓自己發瘋，必須假裝漠不關心。」饑荒開始的時候，美蘭班上有五十個學生，三年後，只剩下十五個。

脫北者宋太太說，兒子因營養不良住院，醫生寫了一張盤尼西林處方箋，當她到市場時才發現藥價高達五十圓朝鮮幣，相當於一公斤的玉米的價格，在盤尼西林和玉米之間，宋太太選擇了玉米，她活下來了，餘生活在內疚中。災難結束了嗎？網路上讀到2013年北韓有男人殺子果腹的消息，內容農場新聞真假難辨，桌上熱騰騰的飯菜堵住了我們要說出口的疑惑。餐桌上，有人蔘雞，有平壤冷麵，有玉米煎餅，一桌人吃得眉開眼笑，說此處口味清淡，不油不辣，適合台灣人。席間有少女歌舞表演助興，唱〈阿里郎〉，牆上懸掛著金日成和金正日肖像，微笑看著這一切。

金氏父子的笑容無所不在，笑容在餐廳、地鐵、少年宮高高懸掛的肖像上，笑容在萬壽台廣場銅像臉上，銅像建於1972年，金日成主席六十大壽之際。抵達平壤第一件事即是到萬壽台獻花和鞠躬，金小姐說：「金日成主席是國家的父親，黨是媽媽，我們都是北朝鮮的孩子，遠行的男女出門或歸來都要來此秉告爸爸。曾經有一名外國記者在這裡看到一個小男孩鞠躬，就問男孩這銅像多重啊？欸，也沒人教這個小男孩，但他就說，北朝鮮全體上下把熱愛主席的心臟挖出來的總和就是銅像的重量。」金小姐說到激動處，嗓子都啞了，簡直都快哭出來了。

景點複製著景點，導覽複製著導覽，這一天，遊覽車繞過了萬壽台（每天早上都會繞到這裡來，無一天例外！！！），然後開往板門店。我們被帶去參觀共同警備區、參觀韓戰停戰談判簽字的地方，也去看了絕筆紀念碑。金小姐這次真的是哭出來了：「1994年7月8日凌晨兩點，金日成主席在毫無病徵之下突然辭世，當夜，他還在挑燈批改一份與南朝鮮進行統一會談的文件，閱畢後還在文件後簽上自己的文字和日期，真正是你們普通話說的鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已了。為了感念主席的偉大，國家特別在這裡立碑，紀念碑上的阿拉伯數字1994.7.7，就是我們偉大領袖金日成主席的親筆簽名，也是千古絕筆。」

行程第一天參觀了萬景台金日成誕生的農舍，最後一天參觀絕筆紀念碑，1912.4.15~1994.7.8，六天五夜走完金日成八十二年的人生，也算有始有終。然而在君父的城邦，時間並非自耶穌誕生那年算起，北朝鮮在金日成那年創世紀，雖然農舍整治得也挺像耶穌誕生的伯利恆馬槽。西元1912年等於主體1年，主體106年2月3日，我們從板門店回到平壤，行程即將結束，金小姐在遊覽車上嚷著好可惜：「這次沒有玩到牡丹峰的凱旋青年公園，那裡面有海盜船、雲霄飛車、還可以看猴子騎單車，那個公園號稱是北朝鮮迪士尼，可好玩了，但天意要各位嘉賓下次再來玩。」

遊覽車窗望出去，層層疊疊的大樓，乾淨的街道，交通女警美貌得可以去參加少女時代……眼睛看的是風景，耳朵聽的是金小姐的解說：孩子課後學芭蕾學小提琴都不用錢，國家栽培到大學畢業。這棟大樓是給藝術家住的，那棟大樓是給退休老師住的，那一整棟大樓是等南北韓統一，給南朝鮮同胞住的。沒玩到北朝鮮迪士尼其實也沒什麼好可惜的，這個國家本身就是一個巨型遊樂場，共產主義的主題樂園。

數天前，鑽進了平壤地鐵站，我的確在心裡哇了一聲。世界陡然一亮，巴洛克挑高穹頂，七彩雕花玻璃吊燈，牆上巨型金日成主席接受萬民擁戴的巨型壁畫似乎要用光了這個國家所有的水彩顏料，壁畫上每個人的笑容那樣鮮豔，那樣快樂。從「復興站」坐往「榮光站」，又是另外田園牧歌的風景，小小的電車來來去去，簡直是迪士尼小小世界。榮光站下一站是什麼？因為禁止前往，我們並不知道。

何嘗不想趁夜溜出去一探究竟？然飯店是荒山裡唯一的建築，最後一夜，綻放著金色光輝的三十層樓高跟前夜一樣刷一聲斷了電，黑暗外面還是更大的黑暗，什麼也看不到，也沒什麼好看的。

「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