關於 紫樂老樁 ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

《星期天的黃乙玲》

星期天我在早上六點醒來，而昨晚出門的新室友剛回家。

起床，走到電腦桌前坐下，螢幕顯示下載中的《淫行面揭官》已經完成百分之九十二。點閱網路新聞，因看到令人興奮的新聞炯炯有神，頭探出房門對新室友呼喊：「你知道黃乙玲有私生女耶。」
新室友抱著毛巾正要去洗澡，耳垂閃亮碎鑽，繃緊的襯衫不扣鈕都是為了表明胸肌，所有聰明一世的打扮都為了週末夜的糊塗一時。「黃乙玲有私生女，so what？」新室友口氣冷淡，轉身關上了浴室的門，就擋住了對話的可能。

很多話題注定在社交場合引起雪崩，譬如黃乙玲和外丹功。況且現在是星期天，星期天習慣早起的人不是注重養生就是週末沒人約太早睡，誰在星期天早晨與你附和八卦呢？星期天早晨，我一個人用iTunes上聽第兩百六十三次的〈無字的情批〉和第四百三十次的〈愛到才知痛〉。

唱歌的女人單薄的聲音顫抖著都像在哭，哀怨的哭腔泣訴寂寞的際遇和愛情的背叛，眼看就要自我毀滅，然而哀傷隨著旋律一轉，聲音陡然上揚，「等別人對待你就親像你對待我，愛到才知道痛」，婉轉的控訴，歌聲裡飽滿的元氣都是勇氣和韌性，bravo！那就是我最喜歡的歌姬。黃。乙。玲。

〈無情的字批〉播放第兩百七十二次的時候，MSN有人咚咚咚丟來了訊息。「你看看這個連結。」前室友說。暱稱顯示為現正熱硬中並未更改，淫到出汁的浪蕩稱呼是昨夜深裡欲望腫脹勃發遺留下來的痕跡。

「《紫花》是什麼東西？」我在問號後面接了困惑的表情符號，眼睛咕嚕咕嚕地轉動。
「徐譽誠的新小說，裡面的人物在趴場裡面出生入死，彷彿神農嘗百草吞E拉K吸Rush5-MEO，寫藥物經驗口氣平淡如家常瑣事，但文字抒情璀璨，漂亮得不得了，如果朱天文嗑藥，大概就是這個樣子吧，」他說，「裡面有個故事寫一個白領上班族和小底迪過招，說上班族穿四角大內褲，額頭有皺紋，小底迪見面都喊老爹。徐譽誠說那個人，僅僅三十五歲，三十五歲耶，幹，原來我們都變成了老爹了。」

我點開了連結一看究竟，不免讚歎：「靠，這傢伙長真帥。」

「重點不是很帥，」舊室友說，「重點是我們都變成了老爹。老爹！」

我說：「文壇和政壇一樣，只要相貌端正都可以當俊男美女，這傢伙，都在高標以上了。漂亮的人講什麼都可以被原諒。」

「帥嘛，沒關係，過幾年就老了。」舊室友說。

我知道舊室友和我對話的用意無非是要拉我一起同仇敵愾，去稀釋那個青春大勢已去的難堪。以往在酒吧有大叔來敬酒，都要在背地裡羞辱對方的肚子都跟胸部一樣下垂，誰知一下子就來到了大叔的年紀了。或者恐懼的並非衰老本身，而是因為青春而被請了多少酒，占淨了多少便宜，現在都要一筆勾銷。那不是王嬌蕊會了一樣本事，捨不得不用，而是即便使出渾身解數，也都沒人買帳了。
說自己沒有那樣的焦慮都是騙人的，但是畢竟得到的青春好處不及舊室友多，口業造得少，掙扎一陣子也就挺過了，我對舊室友說：「一堆五、六十歲的人在報紙上寫文章尚且稱三少四壯。就看開點努力賺錢，有權有勢就算是戎祥人家仍然把你當費翔。」
然而舊室友根本不想用理智面對這一件事情：「假使有賀軍翔可以當，有誰願意當賀一航呢？」

「你不要再隨便詛咒不認識的人，那是老化的象徵。」

他說：「哎，這種事，你們這種星期天早上一直聽著黃乙玲的髮姊是不會懂得。」我來不及反擊，舊室友便化做一尊紅色人偶顯示離線。

星期天上午無端地淪落成了別人口中的髮姊，然後攢到廚房把統一肉燥麵倒在昨晚吃剩的咖哩飯加熱。週休二日，非常宅心仁厚：星期五晚上下班採買了零食啤酒之後就直接回家，一個人下載港劇色情電影，輕輕鬆鬆地看漫畫和睡覺，聽iTunes裡面的音樂，興致來了就去看二輪電影，把週休二日美好時光都蹉跎掉，沒有什麼好，但也沒有什麼理由可以不好的。

這個星期天，和上個星期天、上上的星期天都沒有什麼不同，除了下午要參加社區大樓集體普渡團拜。下午兩點鐘社區大樓彷彿被搗毀的蟻窩，捧著貢品紙錢拎著水果的住戶像是工蟻一樣來來去去，我擺好了餅乾水果，順便偷看了一下他人祭品，多半還是多力多滋和泰山八寶粥，第一名的祭品之力。

星期天下午我蹲在大樓門口摺紙錢，而睡醒了的新室友穿了小麋鹿POLO衫和迷彩短褲正要去健身房。他說晚上要和我的舊室友，還有誰誰誰去吃飯，要一起來嗎。我答這個星期的誰誰誰跟上星期的誰誰誰是一樣的嗎？

新室友沒有回答，咧嘴的笑容始終是一道未癒合的傷口。
我揮手跟新室友掰掰，說星期天晚上要燉雞湯就不出門了。
等待一柱香燒完的時間，攢進閱覽室找書看。報紙讓人給霸占，眼睛就快速掃描了書架上的陳列：《寰海探奇》、《證嚴法師靜思語》、《漢聲小百科》、《腹語術》、《紅顏男子》、《燦爛笑容練習術》……等等《燦爛笑容練習術》前面是什麼？視線往回看，《紅顏男子》！

血液衝上腦門 ，見二手書市中的夢幻絕版書如發現江湖失傳的《九陰真經》，耳畔有煙火無聲無色綻放著。李岳華著，1994年聯經出版，和《荒人手記》同梯的小說，但未曾收到如同朱天文那樣多讚美和寵愛，寂寞的，紅顏男子。
大樓閱覽室發現了如此一本絕版書，相見比懷念更美，中元普渡，天化日之下百鬼繚亂，我在閱覽室專注的閱讀，直到供桌上香火燃燒殆盡，所謂理想的下午。

聲色各異的五個短篇寫的都是同一樁心事──男人愛上另一個男人，而這個男人身邊有另外一個女人，眾人經歷一番夢幻之後，各自沉默，各自曲折。紅顏男子將真事隱去，說「提起筆來想留一個見證，曾有人這樣愛過」，一字一生。但沒有什麼比那個折封口更像小說了：「作者曾從事服務業，現已去世。」

流星一樣的人物，畫過天際馬上不見，文學雜誌未見任何議論，GOOGLE也沽不到來龍去脈，傳說他生了不能言說的惡疾，傳說密友為他揭竿起義發起了同志運動（小說裡面的倪平？），也有傳說說那是個化名，根本不存在的人。傳說是風聲、是寫在水上的名字，餘波蕩漾都成了安靜，因此懷疑紅顏男子是否真正來過，也懷疑自己的閱讀只是一場夢。

書的感情很重很重，但文字很輕很輕，短短的，如同籤詩，預示了一整個世代的命運。那是沒有拓峰網路交友UT男同聊天室小熊村的年代，那是僅能從報紙上男男交友和世界電影的筆友欄認識人的年代，沒有一整套的知識系統可以奧援，沒有瑪丹娜阿妹凱莉一班偉大女神可以寄託，什麼都沒有，空蕩蕩的天地裡，荒人與孽子，彷彿兩片落葉在風中相聚隨即散去，紅顏男子花一百零五天與另一個人相愛，然後耗費另外十個一百零五天去回憶或者遺忘。

紅顏男子用文字排遣寂寞的境遇和愛情的背叛，自愛自憐自我毀滅，彷彿黃乙玲。那個年代，就只有那麼一千零一種情歌的唱腔，那麼一千零一種愛情，在愛情裡人人都是黃乙玲。
紅顏紫花，我的星期天和兩本書產生了神祕的聯繫，從這本書到另外一本書，連?兩本書的出版日期恰恰將時間一刀切成了兩個斷代，紅顏荒人和搖藥紫花的年代，而我在時間的跨度裡面變成了一個大叔。

棒棒堂男孩的名字都複雜得如同卡拉馬助夫兄弟們，iTunes最常播放的歌都成了鄧麗君和黃乙玲，當腰身和大腿弧形扯成了一條筆直的線 ，跨越了那條線什麼都不一樣了。

沒有力氣在一個夜晚愛上一顆藥，也不會花一百零五天去為一個人而流淚，悲情和哀怨都僅止於iTunes上聽歌，關閉程式悲傷就會終結。大叔一樣的年紀彷彿都被兩個世代罷黜，但其實是雙邊都撈淨的好處，大叔的年紀感情只取兩個世代平均值，愛或遺忘一個人，只要十五天，沒有什麼好，也沒有什麼理由不好。

沒有什麼事情發生，又像是發生了許多事情，星期天，我把拜好的貢品和書本一起帶走。星期天倒數最後幾個小時，洗好了衣服，把鞋櫃的鞋子擺好，儘管沒有去什麼遙遠的地方，鞋面都很乾淨。就只是煮了雞湯，癱瘓在沙發一邊看「命中注定我愛你」，一邊把剩下的《紅顏男子》看完，書看完了，星期天也就過去了。沒有開心，也沒有不開心，我的星期天。

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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

今年三月上旬，下午時分，一個陌生的女客人來店消費。

取餐後，她便離去，晚上打掃時，發現地上躺著一張樂透彩票；本想直接丟掉，但心念一動，便下載了軟體掃了一下。

#那竟然是一張中獎彩券

看著這張中獎八百的彩票，我當下開始回憶今天到店的客人們，對一個門可羅雀的店家來說，這不是非常困難的事........

當天的下午來店客人有五位，其中三位是熟客，兩位則不是；我先用訊息詢問了三位常客，並以試探性的問題以訊息詢問了第四位客人"是否在我這裡遺忘了東西?"

她回憶了一下，說自己離開時帶走了所有隨身物品，沒有遺漏東西；至此，便能肯定彩券的主人便是我第一句話問到的那一位陌生女性。

我回憶起來，她是將彩券收在皮夾裡，只是當她抽出鈔票付錢時，彩券一起滑了出來，當下我們也都沒有發現，所以她離去了，我後來才看見。

我尋思除非她本人不缺錢，不然既然會把彩券收在皮夾裡，自然有準備哪天去兌獎換錢，既然發現彩券不見了，應該就會循著當天的行蹤軌跡回頭查找才是；於是我將彩券收在抽屜裡，希望她日後會回來詢問，我好還給她。

眼看著兌獎期限就要到了，再不去兌獎，彩券就會變成一張廢紙。於是我就把彩券拍下來，並拿去換了獎，再收在一個紅包袋中，等著有人來查問時還給人家。

裝著800塊的紅包就這麼躺在我的出納錢袋中等她的主人；這一等，就是四五個月，那她大概是真的忘卻這個身外之物了。

#事情總要有個了斷

於是，我決定把它捐出去，但我又不想捐給甚麼很有名的大機構，因為他們的信徒早就把機構帳戶撐個盆滿缽滿了；所以我向來習慣捐給沒能力發聲的相對弱勢單位。(幫人家看紫微斗數後，請他們捐款給這些團體)

當然，台灣社會上有非常多的弱勢團體需要我們幫助，重症、罕病、智能障礙、身殘等等，他們本身受苦、家人也受累，甚至壓垮了身心與經濟。

身為一個營業額相當幽默的小店家，我能做的其實不多，只要能有餘力，我倒是挺分散的四處捐助；而這次我選擇了"幸福基金會"，因為我覺得很多身心缺陷的人，最大的問題就在於照顧他的人一旦故去，不只他本身馬上陷入困難，照顧他的人也肯定走得不安心。

而照顧他們(不管是植物人、智障或殘障人士、重大傷病病友等)的成本是很高的，這些基金會的營運也勢必困難與艱辛；況且，跟真的下去照顧他們相比，捐錢真的只是小事而已。

苦人所苦，所以我決定把這次的小錢捐助給他們。

而在瀏覽網頁時，我看到他們寫道: "只要每月捐款一百達一年，或是單筆捐贈達1200，就送SKB的12色色鉛筆與捆筆袋(由喜憨兒們親手包裝的)"

我心下側笑 : "哼哼....我捐款豈是為了貪圖這個小贈品嗎???"

但滑下去一看照片 : "唉啊!! 這筆袋看起來好精緻啊!!! 對不起了錢包君，我真的很想要這個酷東西啊!! "

所以不爭氣的我，決定除了那個樂透彩金之外，再自己掏腰包加碼400來湊到1200..................(反正我要那個筆袋，色鉛筆我再看要給誰好了.......)

好啦。我知道捐的款項不多，但這件事畢竟是一份心力；或許我為業績慘澹所苦，但至少我還有餘力給予更苦的人一些小幫助。

恰如我店門口的對聯寫到 : 積善之家必有餘慶 謹記諸善奉行。

而雖然我就是捐了一點點，但我始終力行著"不因善小而不為"的想法，並且"莫忘世間苦人多"啊。

(#最後呼籲 : 如果彩券的主人有看到這則貼文，也是可以來找我，只要妳能說出你哪一天在哪裡買、當天向我買了甚麼餐點，本人勢必將這800塊雙手奉上；捐助的款項，自然也是小弟全部承擔，不會讓你折損分毫。

這次借花獻佛，也全是沾了妳的光，不管妳有沒有看到這則貼文，在此向妳致敬與致謝。)

#莫因善小而不為
#莫忘世間苦人多
#了卻一樁心事

#老闆不只人不錯
#煮三杯雞義大利麵還超好吃
#還有白酒蛤蜊麵
#還有松露燉飯

｜小姐愛旅行。生活提案｜TRAVEL LIFE VLOG｜

不論是旅行、音樂、生活或貓咪，與你分享生活中的各種提案。
現在就訂閱柴郡貓 YouTube頻道，每天都像旅行一般的好心情。

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好讀網誌版｜https://www.lovecheshirecatmusic.com/post/20200203

來到香川縣，當然要去一生必朝聖一次的「金刀比羅宮」參拜！
香川縣的金刀比羅宮是全日本的總社，可是知名的能量景點，
最有名的就是要爬上1386階樓梯考驗體力耐力才能參拜的參道。

去之前其實很擔心沒什麼運動習慣的自己無法抵達，
但其實前半段的石階一路上都有店家與餐廳可以逛逛，
不知不覺就走到了金刀比羅宮的入口。

五人百姓的加美代糖有著在地古老的歷史故事，
途中還有資生堂經營的餐廳「神樁」可以用餐，
可惜沒時間的我們只能繼續向前走。

本宮前的廣場可以鳥瞰香川的風景心曠神怡，
收集到了金刀比羅宮的御朱印與最有名的「幸福的黃色御守」，
還有限定販售的金比羅狗的擺飾與吊飾，
更有金比羅狗的籤可以抽真是太可愛了。

相傳金比羅狗的由來讓狗狗代替無法前來參拜的主人，
來到金刀比羅宮為主人祈求平安健康而被稱為「代參犬」，
這大概只有聰明又中心的狗狗才能辦到了！

沒想到爬樓梯沒想像中的累，但最後卻敗給了有限的時間，
要趕車前往岡山的我們，只爬到923階的白峰神社就宣告挑戰失敗，
希望下次還有機會再去挑戰一次！
除了要完走1386階，更要悠閒坐下來享用香川烏龍麵啊！

金刀比羅宮：http://www.konpira.or.jp/

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東京｜第一站＆最終站，羽田機場觀光體驗員特搜之旅｜https://youtu.be/RM7cDuQFE3U
栃木｜搭乘東武鐵道，來去日光住一晚！｜https://youtu.be/6SH9tLdVHh0
高知｜跟著觀光大使，來去高知須崎這樣玩｜https://youtu.be/h-JscZvoE1s
群馬｜群馬魅力宣傳大使，三天兩夜這樣玩｜https://youtu.be/VDJy-mcWf4k
愛知｜來去常滑，招財貓的故鄉散步｜https://youtu.be/XOB5zMmDlLw
福岡｜來去福岡，浪漫紫藤花特輯｜https://youtu.be/YsAXGI7DpPk
香川｜直島豐島趴趴走，瀨戶內海藝術跳島之旅｜https://youtu.be/xmxJzFDour8

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I’m a Songwriter ▶ Singer ▶▶ Writer ▶▶▶ Traveler▶▶▶▶Youtuber.

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時而為人，用心生活，努力感受微小的喜怒哀樂。
時而為貓，仔細觀察，重新詮釋平凡無奇的日常。

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小弟今年19歲，這一首歌的靈感是我一年前還在高中的時候追求一個女生的故事，付出很多也受很多傷的我，把我的故事寫進這首歌裡。

希望大家會喜歡我的作品！也希望各位可以留言讓我知道哪裡需要進步，你們的意見對我來說就是最好的反饋，不管是好是壞，我都會指教，一步一步的努力前進，寫出更高質量的作品，希望大家能支持我！「我來自嘉義的JK」

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