「地獄空」攝影集即將在八月中元節前出版,由知名設計師與攝影家黃子欽設計,內附在下二位高徒精美繪製符咒、心經版畫書籤、愣嚴咒牌、尊勝咒語...等,感恩十方大德助印,希望疫情退散,平安喜樂,後記如下:
野放台灣五十餘年,貪狼獨坐,三方四正殺破狼格局,少年多舛,白手起家,隨展覽雲遊四海,如閒雲野鶴常持各類底片機流連廢墟、山川、宮廟忘返,遂設幻影堂自詡堂主,一日三省「凡所有相皆是虛妄」,常宅於暗房沖片放大通宵、鍾情黑白世界之單純,彩色照片俗世繽紛花俏做作甜美甚至比現實更現實故少拍也。知天命之年有餘,了悟人生一瞬、眨眼即逝,雖非仙人,亦無道骨,初聞離垢地生清淨心,但離華嚴「不動地」尚遠,待修持也。
2017年盛暑拍畢《巨神連線》,心律不整差點心肌梗塞向閻羅王報到,意識死神隨伺在側,人生苦短,如何了生脫死、盡斷煩惱、無所罣礙、遠離顛倒……總不得解,蒙釋迦摩尼佛開示飆淚三晝夜,聞佛法數載始知自我渺如塵埃,甚感慚愧。閒暇乃參訪名寺古剎,禮敬焚香佛陀菩薩羅漢諸神天仙王爺媽娘,台灣宮廟千奇百怪、宗派錯綜複雜(佛教、道教、一貫道、天主教、基督教、齋教、回教&大同教、儒教鑾堂、天帝教&天德教、慈惠堂&勝安宮、軒轅教、道院、理教、萬國道德會、會靈山……)、神棍橫行(依人不依法、偶像崇拜、斂財、邪淫),因歷史變遷、社會動盪、政治鬥爭、意識形態等因素導致佛道混雜,但地獄造景稀少,後專注拍攝各殿閻王、判官、陰司、獄卒、七爺、八爺乃至一切罪人,各寺造景巧妙、耐人尋味,意境乖張溢於言表,造型扭曲非常人所能塑也,然匠心獨運、自成一格,專研西方藝術數十載方知真誠樸拙最美,絲毫不輸喬托(Giotto di Bondone,1267~1337)乃至米開朗基羅(Michelangelo Di lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 ~ 1564)矣。
創立於1986年的石門金剛宮風景優美可眺望北濱,雖主祀四面佛,儒釋道眾神尊也不含糊,可過七星橋解厄、繞行五百黝黑羅漢敲鑼印心、跪拜亞洲最大臥佛涅槃像,安太歲自不在話下,甲子太歲爺雙眼長出手掌印象甚深,1994年經閻羅王指示廟公建造一條肚內設極樂世界及陰曹地府之神龍,行走暗黑通道觸動感應機關,只見面容猙獰受刑者呼天搶地喊冤、身邊盡是血肉糢糊殘肢敗屍腦漿塗地,十殿閻羅各司其職、威儀攝人。新北市林口區青嶺湖北文紫祥宮包公廟則以壁面彩塑地獄浮雕獨步全台,粉嫩色彩搭配卡漫風格,尤為造型簡直恐怖到可愛透頂,該廟主祀森羅殿閻羅天子包拯(包青天),陽世冤屈者可至此參拜祭解,求破懸案者眾,逢中元普渡皆以紙紮船渡亡魂至彼岸,全台唯一閻羅天子巨像籌備中,四周環繞墓地,適合修不淨觀也。台灣首尊彰化八卦山大佛旁南天宮(1971)地府則是首座電動地府,規模精小但驚嚇度破表,略顯破敗但五光十色仍蠻凶悍,出自已故台南大道長金登富之作,而電動神明起始可追溯至1960年代北港朝天宮。倒是嘉義水上鄉白人牙膏觀光工廠「戴相府」、「將軍府」設置十殿地府出乎意料之外,乾淨亮麗、ㄧ殿ㄧ間、簡單樸實。由高雄蓮潭龍虎塔龍口入內可見全臺唯一交趾陶地獄牆面,尊尊栩栩如生,續入龍身乃進聞聲救苦白衣觀音大士三十三化身浮雕隧道,造型設色甚為古錐。高雄大岡山超峰寺入口處「西方三聖蓮池海會」(阿彌陀佛、觀世音菩薩、大勢至菩薩巨像)旁設靜態十殿閻羅(1970年代初),雖略為陳舊然韻味猶存,續往上行可抵「證菩提道-釋迦如來應化事迹」雕塑園區,一攬世尊畢生精華。如來年邁時,琉璃國王為報長期被釋迦族輕蔑之傲慢心,世尊雖三次單獨伽跌坐 阻擋大軍進攻之路,但因緣果報無法逆轉,昔日婢女所生王子瞋恨無以復加,還是滅了祖國。自持神通第一目犍連不忍無辜百姓慘遭屠殺,遂以缽盛救度五百族人,最終卻化為血水,佛言神通廣大仍不敵千百劫業力,因緣果報屢試不爽。其母死後墜入餓鬼道飢餓難耐,目犍連遂展神通救渡,但所食尚未入口皆化為赤火,佛陀囑咐農曆七月十五日僧眾解安居自恣日,於盆中設甘露美食供養十方僧眾,因此超度亡母。後世「盂蘭盆法會」乃至「水懺法會」、「瑜珈焰口法會 」皆為消業障、斷塵垢之超渡儀軌,既渡亡魂也自懺悔。
台南麻豆代天府規模宏大、造型豔麗,不但可遊十八層地獄尚可逛天堂(1979年興建,1983年開放),燈光絢爛、聲響駭人,獨自漫步宛如觀落陰、地獄走一回。先過「心頭山」、入「清心池」、進「陰陽界」、抵「交簿廳」、達「鬼門關」、遊「補經所」、探「枉死城」、行「奈何橋」,至ㄧ殿泰廣王照「孽鏡台」現造惡原形,睹抱柱、火床等小地獄。二殿楚江王開「陰查簿 」判案定奪,觀糞尿泥、餓鬼、舞池、寒冰、膿血、鞭韃、舌犁、劍葉、戟腹拋接、砧截……等小地獄。三殿宋帝王刑罰為倒吊、銅鐵刮臉、挖眼、搗樁、倒烤、吸血、穿肋、抽筋、蛆蛀等小地獄……兼遊「四生(胎、卵、濕、化)回魂府」。四殿五官王掌管腰斬、拔舌、沸湯、刺嘴、剝皮、箭樹、車崩、射眼……等十六小地獄。隨五殿森羅王豋「望鄉臺」回眸親人最終眼後觀擊膝、誅心、刀山、飛刀火石……小地獄。六殿卞城王別稱「大叫喚大地獄」,轄火牛、虎啖、噬腎、鉗嘴含鍼、釘喉、磨摧、砍頭……等小地獄。七殿泰山王為「熱惱大地獄」,窺烙手指、抽腸、頂石蹲身、油釜滾烹、割舌穿腮……等十六小地獄。八殿都市王掌管「大熱惱大地獄」兼火狗、鐵汁、鐵蛇、鋸劈斷肢、釘板、灸脊、鐵丸、磅秤……等小地獄。九殿平等王直轄十八層「阿鼻大地獄」,直透地心、內中陰森、不見五指、滿溢地漿,皆為極犯,另轄紫赤毒蛇鑽孔、夾頂、鐵鴉、針雨、蜂蠍……等小地獄。至十殿輪轉王上「觀生臺」、「轉劫所八司」(查驗司 、稽善司 、考過司 、恩怨司 、壽命司 、支配司、掌劫司 、授生司)後至「孟婆亭」飲「醧忘湯」忘盡前塵往事,依前世功德過金、銀、玉、石、木、竹六種橋樑至「轉輪臺(紫河車)」入六道輪迴轉生投胎。據《十八泥犁經》記載,人過世後七七四十九天為「中陰生」,經閻羅王審判善惡業力判定去留或懲罰百千萬劫,犯五逆重罪則墮入「無間地獄(阿鼻地獄)」永劫不復。地藏王乃幽冥教主,統轄十殿閻羅,逢三曹普渡便在各殿設「講道所」超度尚存善根之鬼魂。
人類居於五趣(阿修羅、人、傍生、餓鬼、地獄)雜居地五濁惡世之堪忍世界,犯十惡業(殺生、偷盜、邪淫、妄語、兩舌、惡口、綺語、貪慾、嗔恚、愚痴)者必墮三趣惡道。如何出「三界」(欲界、色界、無色界)二十八天?凡人無此意識,別說能破「十二因緣」(無明、行、識、名色、六入、觸、受、愛、取、有、生、老死)還滅門,更別想斷除「四聖諦」(苦、集、滅、道)集地八十一品見惑與八十八使思惑(五利使-身見、邊見、邪見、見取見、戒禁取見、五鈍使-貪、瞋、癡、慢、疑),了悟「五蘊」(色、受、想、行、識)本空、「十二入」(眼、耳、鼻、舌、意、色、聲、香、味、觸、法)空、「十八界」空,破俱生我執與分別我執、法執甚至空執,生十一處「善心所」(信、精進、慚、愧、無貪、無瞋、無痴、輕安、不放逸、行捨、不害),降二十六處「惡心所」(貪、瞋、癡、慢、疑、惡見、忿、恨、覆、惱、嫉、慳、誑、諂、害、憍、無慚、無愧、掉舉、惛沉、不信、懈怠、放逸、失念、散亂、不正知),須知善根斷盡則陷永劫輪迴、無垠轉世之苦。
地獄可能空滅嗎?若地獄空乏人間多鬼怪,地獄淨空世間何嘗非淨土?若能證空性何處現地獄?
地獄曠古來便廣泛流傳各部族間,老死生滅為自然運行之基礎、宇宙意識之核心,然今文明昌盛如咱城邦並非慾望消弭之所,惡性所及實無可根除,礙於憲法國家法律社會軍隊企業公司學校家庭團體之層層束縛不亞於十八層,乃遁於壓抑、束己情懷,暗埋心底、日久貪嗔痴慢疑怨噌會疊穢。而六塵未熄,心多妄念,妖魔鬼怪魑魅魍魎孤魂閃靈出沒於荒郊乃至人間,會靈於曠野密林以增性靈乃出世高人修煉之舉,我等凡人擅闖宛如迪士尼般之人造地獄,三魂七魄尚不足以出竅,驚邪恐怖淒厲猙獰倒滿足了自以為是的慚愧,豈不謬哉?
病毒肆虐年半有餘,全球確診者逼近一億八千萬,枉死者近四百萬,堪比戰爭規模,望眾生發慈悲心、令往生者安息、善待其他物種、平等有情眾生。地獄本空,唯妄念生起一切羨慕嫉妒恨而地獄現前。盡以此書作為世界新冷戰獨裁者、超限戰者、暗網駭客、陰險狡猾冷嘲熱諷落井下石者之良知備忘錄矣。
姚瑞中寫於2021年端午節
Postscript
I have been living recklessly in Taiwan for more than fifty years. According to Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology), Tan Lang is the sole star in my house of Self. This star, which represents xxx, forms an equilateral triangle with that star Qi Sha and Po Jun on the square chart and constitutes a Sha Po Lang pattern. The pattern indicates a kind of turbulence and change, a life of wandering with ups and downs and it tells a lot about my life. After my ill-fated youth, I started from scratch and traveled around the world with exhibitions that I participated. Like a flaneur, I wandered around ruins, nature, and temples with every type of film camera obliviously. Thus, I founded the Hall of Illusion and claimed to be the master of the hall. Several times a day, I pondered a quote from the Diamond Sutra, “Everything with form is unreal.” In addition, I usually stayed in the darkroom developing film and enlarging those negatives overnight. However, I treasured the simplicity of the black and white world. The earthly, gaudy, garish, phony and pleasing qualities within colored photos make the images even more realistic than the real world. It is not my cup of tea, so I seldom took colored photos. In Confucian thought, the age of fifty marks the stage knowing the mandate of Heaven. I am now at my fifties and realize how ephemeral human life is. However, I am not an immortal, nor having sagelike characteristics. I just learned that the stage of stainless (the second bhūmi) and develop a pure mind that is free from doubt and defilement. However, I’m still far from the immovable state and need to practice.
In the summer of 2017, after filming the work Incarnation, I experienced a severe heart rhythm problem which almost triggered myocardial infarction and could have killed me. Consequently, I realized that death was waiting for me and the life is too short to figure out how I can liberate myself from the cycle of Birth and Death. I couldn’t comprehend how to be free from all afflictions and worries and how to avoid delusive ideas. I wept for three days and nights after being enlightened by Shakyamuni Buddha. Up to the moment, I felt ashamed that I failed to realize that the self is as insignificant as dust after these years learning and practicing Buddhism. Since then, I have visited famous temples and monasteries in my spare time, worshiping Buddha, Bodhisattvas, arhats, and all the deities and immortals. Taiwan’s temples are myriad with a enormous number of sects, including Buddhism, Taoism, Yiguandao, Catholicism, Christianity, Chinese religions of fasting, Islam& Baháʼí Faith, Confucianism, Tiandiism& Tian-De Teachings, Xiwangmu cult, Yellow Emperor Sect, Precosmic Salvationism, Liism, World Wide Ethical Society, séance cult, etc. Some people even claim that they can mediate communication between the deities or spirits of the dead with human beings, having their believer rely on themselves instead of the orthodox dharma or dogma and pay excessive respect and admiration for the mediums or objects, accumulating wealth through such an unfair means or even harassing their believer sexually. Due to Taiwan’s historical changes, social turbulence, political struggles, and ideological issues, Buddhism and Taoism are somehow mixed. However, there are few emphases on the concept of the hell. As I took photographs of Yama of each court, judges, wardens of the underworld, jailers, General Fan and Hsieh (the ghost escorts) and all sinners, I found few temples cleverly created hellish scenes that are intriguing, exaggerating, and extraordinary. However, the creations are unparalleled unique. I have been studying Western arts for decades and then I came to realize that simplicity makes the most beautiful works of art. These hellish scenes can even compete with works of Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) and Michelangelo Di lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564).
Jingang Temple Shimen District, founded in 1986, overlooks the beautiful North shore. Although the temple is mainly dedicated to Phra Phrom (the Thai representation of Mahabrahma), spirits of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism can also be founded in the temple. The worshipper can go cross the Seven Star bridge to relieve bad luck, walk along the five hundred arhat statues and knock on the gong to affirm one’s Buddha nature. Furthermore, the worshipper can also prostrate themself before Asia’s largest statue of Buddha in Nirvana (the Reclining Buddha statue) and pacify the Taoist Tai Sui deity of the year. I was impressed by the Jia-Zi Tai Sui General that a pair of palms grow out of his eyes. In 1994, the biō-kong (the person taking charge of the temporal affairs of a temple) received a divine inspiration from Yama (the King of Hell) that he had to build a sacred hall in the shape of a divine dragon, with the interior designed according to the World of Ultimate Bliss and the Underworld. When the visitor walks in the dark hallway, they will see the tortured people (dioramas, of course) scrunching their faces and crying bitterly and loudly in excessive grief as the visitor triggers the mechanism. One will even find them in the midst of flesh, body liquid and blood, mutilated limbs, and rotten corpses. While each of the ten Yamas are focusing on their own duties, showing their sacred dignity that collect visitors’ attention. The Baogong Temple in Linkou District, New Taipei City exclusively features colorful depiction of hellish scenes in relief in Taiwan. With its pastel shades and cartoon-like style, the relief is both grotesque and adorable at the same time. This temple is dedicated to Bao Zhen (also known as Justice Bao) representing the incarnation of Yama. Living people who have been treated unjustly can come worshipping Bao Gong and receive exorcism. Therefore, many people come here for seeking to solve unsolved cases. In Zhongyuan Festival (the ghost festival), the temple will burn the Zhizha (paper craft) boat to ferry the ghosts to the other shore, which is the shore of enlightenment. The only giant statue of Yama in Taiwan is still in the making. The temple is surrounded by a cemetery, suitable for meditating on the loathsomeness and impurity. Nantian Temple (1971), located next to the Eight Trigram Mountains Buddha in Changhua, features the first animatronic underworld. Despite the small size, the animatronic underworld is intensely shocking. Though it’s slightly worn, the colorful dioramas are still brutally ferocious. The creator was the late venerable Dao Zhang (Taoist priest) Jing Deng-fu while the origin of animatronic deities can be traced back to the 1960s Beigang Chaotian Temple. On the contrary, the Whiteman Toothpaste Tourism Factory in Shuishang Township, Chiayi, features ten Yamas with individual booth. The place is unexpectedly clean and polished yet keeps a simple and modest tone. Then, the Dragon Pagoda of the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas at Lotus Lake in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, holds the only relief of hellish scenes made of Kochin ceramic. All the figures are vivid and life-like. If one goes further into the pagoda, they will see a relief tunnel of the thirty-three incarnations of the white-robed form of Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara) on a white lotus, with a lovely and interesting design. Another Hall of Yama is built in the 1970s next to the entrance of Dagangshan Chaofeng Temple, located in the Alian District of Kaohsiung. Visitors will also see three statues of the Three Holy Ones of the Western Pureland (Amitābha, Avalokiteśvara, Mahāsthāmaprāpta) which assemble at a lotus pond. Although the hellish scene looks somewhat antiquated, you may still find its previous charm. If one goes further, they will reach the sculptural garden of “Attaining the Bodhi Way: the Incarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha,” where the visitor can see the essence of Bhagavato’s (meaning the Blessed one, one of the common epithets for Buddha) life. When Tathāgata (another epithet for Buddha) was old, the king of Kosala wanted to avenge the arrogance of the tribe of Shakyas who had long despised him, regarding him as a son of a maiden. Although Buddha has sat in lotus position alone three times to stop the army from attacking his tribe. However, one can never reverse the cause and following karma. The prince born of a maiden was so furious that he eventually destroyed his homeland. Maudgalyāyana (one of the Buddha’s closest disciples), who is said to have had supernatural abilities that surpassed the other disciples, could not bear to see the slaughter of innocent people. Thus, he saved five hundred people of his tribe with a pātra (an eating utensil of Buddhist monks). Unfortunately, everything he did was in vain, those who were saved eventually turned into a puddle of blood. The Buddha said that the supernatural abilities cannot surpass the power of karma. The cause and effect work all the time. When Maudgalyāyana’s mother fell into the path of hungry ghost, he used his supernatural abilities to save his mother from hunger. However, all the food turned into fire before being fed to his mother. Later, the Buddha commanded the monks to put nectar and dishes in a basin on the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar for the monks from all directions to free his mother from reincarnation. In later times, the Ullambana Dharma Service, the Compassionate Samadhi Water Repentance, and the Yoga Collection for Feeding the Searing Mouths Dharma Service are rituals to eliminate karmic hindrance and to cease to worldly delusions. Through such practices, one can free the dead as well as confess their repentance.
Madou Daitian Temple is a magnificent and colorful temple in Tainan. Not only can the worshippers visit the eighteen levels of Hell but also the Heaven (it was built in 1979 and inaugurated in 1983) here. The lighting and sound effects are stunning and frightening. When walking alone in the space, one may feel like taking a Guan Luo Yin trip (a Taoist necromancy which leads people’s spirits to hell and communicate with the dead ones) to visit the underworld prison. Before arriving the first court of the underworld, the visitor will walk through the Mountain of Heart Summit, the Pure Heart Pond, the Frontier between the Living and the Dead Realms, the Soul Registry Hall, the Portico of Demons, the Center for Complementary Teaching of Canonical Books, the Citadel of Premature Death, and the Bridge of Vanity. When one arrives at the first court, they will see King Chin-guang, who is in charge of the court, using the Mirror of Retribution to show the earthly form of evil creatures and also witness the sub-hell of Pillar-Holding and Fire Bed, etc. At the second court, King Chu-jiang collates the register of sins the souls of the dead have committed to impose the punishments. Here, you will see the sub-hell of Excrement and Urine, Hungry Ghost, Burning Dance Floor, Ice, Pus and Blood, Whipping, Tongue-Raking, Sword Blade, Stomach-Piercing, Chopping, etc. Next, the dead at the third court, ruled by King Song-di, will receive the punishments including inversion tortures, face-skinning with steel and copper knife, eye-wrenching, pounding, blood-sucking, rib-piercing, roasting, tendon-taking, being eaten by maggots. The visitor can pay a visit to the Palace of Soul-Resuscitation for the Four Forms of Creatures (birth from an egg, birth from a womb, birth from moisture, and birth by transformation). King Wu-guan is in charge of the fourth court. There are sixteen sub-hells at the fourth court including Waist Chop, Tongue Removal, Boiling Pond, Mouth-stabbing, Skin-peeling, Sword Tree, Burning Wheels and Cart, Eye-shooting, etc. Next, at the fifth court, sinful souls are allowed to ascend the Tower of Hometown-Viewing to take a final look of their family. The visitor will witness sub-hells of Knee-striking, Heart-slicing, Blade Mountain, Flying Swords and Burning Stones, etc. The King of Bian City takes charge of the sixth court, which is also known as the “Great Hell of Screaming,” with sub-hells including Fire Cattle, Tiger-Biting, Kidney-Eating, Mouth-Poking, Throat-Nailing, Iron Mill, Decapitation, etc. The King of Tai-shan is in charge of the seventh court, the “Great Hell of Heat and Fire.” The sixteen sub-hells at this court include Finger-Searing, Bowel-Hauling, Stone-Bearing, Boiling Oil, Tongue-Removal and Cheek-Piercing, etc. Next, the King Du-shi is in charge of the eighth court, the “Great Hell of Intense Fire and Heat,” and the sub-hells including Fire Dogs, Molten Iron, Iron Snakes, Dismemberment, Steel Spikes, Burning-Marrow, Iron Ball, Scale, etc. The ninth court is ruled by the King Ping-deng. It is known as the biggest court, Avici Hell (the Hell of Incessant Suffering), which if the lowest level of the hell realm and the interior is gloomily and terrifyingly dark. Those who committed the most serious evil deed will be sent to the Avici Hell. Sub-hells such as Poisonous Snake, Brain-Removal, Crow-Gnawing, Raining Needles, Wasps and Scorpions are included at this court. After arriving the tenth court, ruled by the Great King of the Reincarnation Palace, one can visit the “Observatory of Life on earth” and the “eight bureaus of the Reincarnation Palace” (including the Bureau of Judicial Control, the Bureau of Good-Actions, the Bureau of Bad-Actions, the Bureau of Debts, Gratitude, and Vengeance, the Bureau of Longevity and Destiny, the Bureau of Familial Ties, the Bureau of the Reincarnated, and the Bureau of Birth). The sinful one will be sent to the Pavilion of Mengpo and made to drink the Soup of Forgetfulness to forget all past affairs. According to the sinful one’s merits of previous life, they will go across one of the six bridges (gold, silver, jade, stone, wood, bamboo) to the “Reincarnation-Wheel (Wheel on the Crimson River).” Finally, one is able to reborn in the six realms. According to the Aṣṭadaśa nāraka sutra ( the Eighteen Hells Sutra), after one passes away, they will enter an intermediate and transitional state between death and rebirth, known as antarābhava in Sanskrit, for forty-nine days. The being will be evaluated by Yama, who will decide if one should get reborn or get punished at the hell. Those who committed the Five Grave Offenses (killing one’s father, killing one’s mother, killing an Arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and creating a schism within the community of Buddhist monks and nun who practice for attaining enlightenment.) will be sent to the Avici Hell and stay there eternally. Kṣitigarbha is the Lord of the Nether World, ruling the ten court of Hell. The lord will set up the “Hall of Teaching” at each court to salvage those sinful ones who still obtain few merits at the offering rituals.
Human beings live the Sahā world (sahāloka in Sanskrit, meaning “endurance of suffering,” a concept of mundane world in Mahāyāna Buddhism) where they share with other reincarnations (including beings of the hells, of the preta, and of malevolent nature spirits) with five turbidities (the Kalpa turbidity, the view turbidity, the affliction turbidity, the living beings turbidity, and the life turbidity). Those who commit the ten evil deeds (killing, stealing, adultery, lying, using immoral language, slandering, equivocating, coveting, anger, and false views) must fall into the three evil paths (animals, preta, and hell). However, how can one escape from the three realms/ twenty-eight heavens (including the six heavens of the desire realm, the eighteen heavens of the form realm, and the four heavens of the formless realm)? Worldly people who don’t have such an awareness cannot leave the cycle of the twelve nidanas (meaning causes or motivations), let alone eliminate the eighty-one afflictions (that have been produced due to misunderstanding regarding reality) and the eighty-eight illusions (including five afflictions of advanced practitioners, also known as five views: view of self, extreme view, evil view, view of attachment to views, and view of morality; and five unintelligent temptations: desire, anger, stupidity, arrogance, and doubt) of thought within the three realms and four Arya satyas (noble truths, including suffering, arising, ending, and path). They cannot realize that the essence of the five skandhas (referring to aggregates of clinging, including the matter of form, sensation, recognition, mental formation, and consciousness) , the twelve ayatana (meaning sense base, including six internal bases: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind and six external bases: visible objects, sound, odor, taste, touch, and mental objects), and the eighteen dhātavah (meaning compositional elements of human existence, including six consciousness, six faculties, and their objects) are the emptiness and the void. Furthermore, they cannot dispel the two reasons for clinging to the idea of the self and the attachment to elemental constructs and even believe in the two (false) tenets that that karma and nirvana are not real and that the ego and phenomena are real. As a consequence, they fail to develop the eleven wholesome mental factors (faith, energy, conscience, being ashamed, non-attachment, non-aggression, non-delusion, calmness, equanimity, conscientiousness, and non-injuriousness) and cease the sixteen unwholesome mental factors (desire, greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, doubt, wrong view, wrath, enmity, hypocrisy, vexation, jealousy, parsimony, deceit, flattery, harming, ambitiousness, stupidity, lacking of faith, idleness, being unrestrained, forgetting, distraction, non-discernment, ). One must bear in mind that once all our virtuous roots are discontinued, they will be trapped in the never-ending reincarnation and the suffering of infinite continuity.
Is it possible that the hell will be empty one day? If the beings in hell will become extinct while evil spirits inhabit the mundane world, the world could be considered as a pure land. If we could witness the nature of the void, then hell will exist no more.
Since ancient times, the concept of hell has been widely spread among all tribes. Aging, death, beginning, and end are the basis of nature and the core of cosmic consciousness. However, the prosperous civilization as our island is not a place where desire can be eliminated. It’s impossible to eradicate evil nature. Since fetters brought by the constitution, the state, the law, society, the military, corporations, schools, families, and groups are not less than the eighteen levels of hell, the mortals repress themselves, bury their feelings. Day after day, greed, anger, stupidity, arrogance, doubt, and resentment are stacking. However, since the six dust (visible objects, sound, odor, taste, touch, and mental objects) has not yet been extinguished, people in the mundane world are still full of delusions. The demons, devils, evil spirits, and the wondering dead exist in the wilderness, while only advanced practitioners with transcendent would attempt to make contact with the dead in the wasteland and forest. Worldly people like us trespass in Disneyland-like man-made hell. It is absurd and ridiculous that the hellish scenes cannot stop us from perpetrating evil deeds, but the horrific and cruel scenes yet satisfy our self-righteous shame.
The pandemic has been boiling over for more than a year and a half. The number of infected patients worldwide is nearly a hundred and eighty million, and the death toll has risen to four million, which is equivalent to a war crisis. I hope that we can all be compassionate, give peace to the dead, treat all sentient beings well and equally. The hell is innately empty; however, deluded and misleading thoughts would give rise to all jealousy and hatred and then manifest the hell before us. This book merely serves as a memorandum of conscience for dictators of the world’s new cold war, supporters of unrestrained warfare, dark web hackers, and those who are cunning and contemptuous and maltreat others when knowing they have problems.
June 2021,
Yao Jui-chung
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【從《寒戰》系列看「新冷戰」背景下的警察 | 盧斯達 | 立場新聞】
因為李加超鄧柄強等官員升遷,有人很恐慌,討論香港是否進入「Police State」。就此不如重新討論一次陸劍青和梁樂民近年編劇和執導的兩部大作《寒戰》和《寒戰 II》。這幾部片經過「作者已死」的解讀,也會引發一些 19 年以來香港政治局面的一些聯想和思考線索。
《寒戰》2012年推出,當時大家除了取笑演員接到的角色,在戲中全部西口西面,就可能是看梁家輝和郭富城鬧交十分爽。「恐怖襲擊」開始之後,一班西裝革履高級警員趕到指揮部開會。每個重要人物,畫面上都列出各人的官銜。多年來我們看警匪片,代表執法者的探員、警員、差佬,有過千百,卻甚少交代他們細緻官職。而《寒戰》正是對「香港武裝部隊職位學」的大眾科普。
警隊的深層次矛盾
據電影及警隊網站,警務處處長之下,有兩個副處長,一個是行動副處長,一個是管理副處長。(19年後還增加一個副處長,專責維護國家安全。) 而管理警察的上級部門是保安局,監察機關是監警會。
不要說外國觀眾,那個年代本地觀眾看也是一頭霧水。
電影中行動副處長李文彬作風鷹派,加上親兒子亦被擄,於是未經管理副處長同意,自己坐上署理一哥之位,揚言要三份二警力全數參與營救行動,並以「寒戰行動」之名宣佈香港進入緊急狀態。作為管理副處長的劉傑輝認為不妥,便拉攏了各個憲委級高級警員,要迫李文彬下台。最後所處外地的一哥打電話回來,問誰是寒戰行動總指揮。李文彬馬上就知道自己失勢,明白「迫宮」並不是劉傑輝一個人的意思,而是警隊最高領導人的意思。
李文彬突然擁有全警隊最高權力,其基礎是「寒戰」和「恐襲威脅」背後的「戰時體制」思維。迫宮行動之前,劉傑輝找了保安局局長劉德華聊天,劉德華竟然對他說,非常時期,要用非常手段。
而警隊當時一哥雖然話不多,但態度上已經等於委任劉傑輝去「撥亂反正」,接掌寒戰行動。或者說這兩個高位人物,從這裡已經透露出他們屬於不支持李文彬的勢力。而匪徒其實都是以O記警員,加上警隊 deep state 策劃陰謀。即《寒戰》以警匪片的格局打開,卻基本取消了匪徒。戲中匪徒首先是警員自己,再後面則是那個神龍見尾不見尾的 deep state 警隊集團。
陰謀背後的陰謀
「大片」作為龐大工業和資本的產物,它的套路是將武戲文拍,將警匪鬥智鬥力的傳統,轉移到搬到權鬥辦公室,方便影帝見面吵架。而且每一次的套路都是你以為這就是陰謀?但陰謀背後其實還有更大陰謀,欲知後事如何,請繼續期待《寒戰III》。
《寒戰》最後李文彬洞察幕後黑手是自己兒子,最後大義滅親將其拘捕。其犯案理由亦不需要秘密審訊。兒子李家俊坦白,劉傑輝上場後不斷收縮警隊資源,為了保衛自己利益的警員都在暗中支持這場行動。只要用寒戰行動引劉傑輝入局,出了問題就等於搞掉了他整條線,上至保安局劉德華、下至整條管理梯隊。
所以看畢這部電影你會得出一個奇幻印象,天下本無事,香港危機和威脅之源,竟是由於警隊內鬥。
2012年,警民關係相當好,但《寒戰》的弦外之音卻讓你想到,香港的治安安全問題,會不會並非肇禍於過去的古惑仔?古惑仔電影息微,但關於高級警務人員的內鬥電影卻推陳出新,作為一種新的文體出現。香港無法保持「最安全的城市」的原因,竟是因為警隊自己造成。這種「走得太前」,令人十分細思極恐。
而鄧柄強高遷保安局局長之後,接替他的蕭澤頤就是行動副處長,即梁家輝的那個職位。
這類基於職權而產生的戲劇矛盾,在《寒戰 II》繼續揭露出來。恐怖份子繼續行動,綁架劉傑輝一家,導致電影中的警務處一哥要自己押送犯人,還失敗走犯,繼而受到全港輿論和立法會權力及特權法委員會審問。
這一連串行動的 (暫時) 幕後黑手,是前一哥蔡元祺。蔡元祺對李文彬曉以大義,表示沖鋒車只是第一招,他們目標是組建一個特區新班子。只要寒戰行動之後產生的醜聞發得大,劉傑輝就會下台,警隊也會自保與一哥割席,李文彬就可以在各界社會賢達支持下重掌警隊。
再加上蔡元祺幕後籌謀,警界、立法會、政府內部勢力配合,律政司司長黎永廉一旦成功當選特首,這個班子就會風山水起。蔡元祺帶李文彬入黑房與賢達密談,對方許諾到時需要李sir「屈就」做住警隊一哥,之後還會升做保安局局長。
為了推劉傑輝下台,律政司司長去了找議會大炮簡奧偉,想借他的嘴炮在立法會轟掉劉傑輝。然而簡奧偉不打算參與,回絕了那部特別版 Leica 相機,並且要自己親自審問劉李二人,好搞清楚整個政治大陰謀。
以律政司司長為首的這群角色,在小黑房實際上是談論一個「涉嫌操控和奪取政權的陰謀」,至於他們背後是甚麼人,整部電影還沒開估,但情理之中的發展其實半透明地推演了出來。
探長們的勢力
為甚麼他們要拉攏李文彬?因為連李文彬背景特殊,都鋪了兩集篇幅。兩部戲涉及很多香港敏感歷史。李文彬的爸爸在英治年代,做到華人最高總警司。(歷史中也有類似的人物,例如方奕輝)。那個年代做較低級人員,反而可以得到更多延後利益。四大探長的「探長」只是員佐級,但他們可以憑職便搭通天地線,成為一方之豪。得到「富」之後,就可以向「貴」進發。
即使不是貪污弄權,警界人員可以在警隊裡面安排自己人,形成一個一個山頭派系,有自己的接班部署。中間當然經歷過 ICAC 成立、紀律重組,衝突期間有警察跑上廉署搗亂以戰迫和,最終集體貪污也被英國特赦。
劇中的李文彬就等於在警隊內部制訂的接班部署中慢慢成長,火速晉升。到了 1995 年英國即將撤走,便將政治部解散,處理過機密資料而有人身安全的高級人員,紛紛假死並獲得海外居留權。李文彬則用職權編排警隊資源,安排匯線人費到海外給舊手足,但劉傑輝多年來削減警隊資源,便觸怒了這班舊手足,在蔡元祺的煽動下回來香港「支持」李文彬復辟。
故事最後安排劉傑輝聯同 ICAC 成功揭發蔡元祺陰謀,在特首、保安局等人考慮授意後,要求蔡元祺賣掉掌握警隊通訊系統公司的股份,永遠離開香港,否則就會拘捕和檢控。然而編導拍完了,最後又是說欲知後事如何……
不談坑洞和故弄玄虛的地方,《寒戰》的戲劇邏輯如此展開:一開始有恐怖襲擊,後來發現更大陰謀是關於一哥位置爭奪戰。《寒戰 II》也是如此,他拋出沖鋒車的餘波,卻又告訴你此陰謀背後有更大陰謀,是一個控制三司十幾局和警隊的政治大陰謀。
循此擴大,預想中的《寒戰 III》就要講中英鬥爭。由於有憑大中國資金,寫得藍藍地並且符合主旋律,可以這樣想:蔡元祺背後的是甚麼人?極有可能是英國特務。1995 年政治部解散事件一再提起,看來不是多了心眼。江湖傳聞政治部解散之後,英國在香港各行各業都留有間諜,包括警隊。蔡元祺等於說,他們無法控制上面選擇甚麼人,但他們只要清除了非自己派系的警員管理層,提供都是自己人的人選,那麼上面怎樣任命,都是自己人,藉此方法就可以控制警隊。
蔡元祺的戰略展開,在網裡面參與者似乎都可以實現自己的議程。智商天才但閱歷頭腦簡單的李家俊,就是想父親上位;李文彬的舊手足,則是為了爭取生活費和支持舊上司。他們最後被蔡元祺犧牲,但這只是深層 deep state 的駁腳,還未傷到真身。
神秘的徐步高
英國 95 年後在香港秘密佈建特務的講法,在徐步高殺警之後,坊間逐漸有人相信。因為徐步高披麻戴孝捧著「民主(已死)」的招牌參加遊行,又故意擔任一些警隊閒職,並且四處去視察重要地方、跟蹤重要人物,種種行徑似乎像間諜多過精神病人。徐步高的神秘死亡案件,在死因庭也是草草審結,坊間便有猜忌徐步高背後的迷霧,可能涉及國家級間諜和反間諜行動。如果《寒戰 III》要加進一點主旋律,整個故事揭穿了就是港英餘孽在香港試圖奪權的史詩戰爭。
警隊因為有幾十年跟港英政府合作無間,利益掛鉤了很多年,回歸之後幹部等於「帶病提拔」,「歷史不乾淨」。律政司司長當然也是受到英美祝福,而《寒戰 II》裡面也有很多現役警察是蔡元祺的臥底。
作為兩次大破案關鍵的劉傑輝,則代表中方意願。整個寒戰奪權行動,是由保安局長劉德華暗示的,劉德華亦不可能不親中。整個故事可以高空視角下變成一場「香港保衛戰」:北京屬意的劉 sir,對抗潛伏在香港警隊 (和各界) 港英 deep state;新秩序對抗復辟勢力。所以第一集劉傑輝說:「最出事係個行動代號 (寒戰)」;第二集蔡 sir 對李文彬說,你用了寒戰這個行動代號,有意思。
寒戰 (Cold War) 這個行動代號,即隱喻了新冷戰在香港徐徐上演。所謂第三代通訊系統,也許是說香港情報一直操控在英美手上。
權威、人情、派系
當然故事真如此發展,不知香港票房會不會受到影響。然而如果寫向另一個方向,蔡sir 背後如果設定為中國,就可能拍不出來。如果能拍,籠罩香港上空的巨大威脅必須是英美勢力。蔡sir最後「流亡」,而劉sir作為獲得中方信任繼續坐鎮本土,「香港唔係佢地可以為所欲為既地方」,媚媚地,藍藍地,但可能亦是大片必做的維他奶式妥協。
在維基百科關於「香港警務處」一頁,記到「反對逃犯條例修訂運動」一章,寫道:「長期關注人權和警權議題的沈偉男認為,在系統性包庇之下,警隊內部對示威者的敵視態度和濫權的警隊文化日益瀰漫,這種不良風氣與警隊一貫封閉而重紀律、權威、人情、派系的環境有關。」
《寒戰》不管怎樣或會不會寫下去,關於警隊的封閉、重紀律、權威、人情、派系等方面,都有細微描寫,也就是這種特定機關文化,導致兩部電影中的恐怖襲擊,其實都是由警隊內部引發出來。
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因為李加超鄧柄強等官員升遷,有人很恐慌,討論香港是否進入「Police State」。就此不如重新討論一次陸劍青和梁樂民近年編劇和執導的兩部大作《寒戰》和《寒戰 II》。這幾部片經過「作者已死」的解讀,也會引發一些 19 年以來香港政治局面的一些聯想和思考線索。
《寒戰》2012年推出,當時大家除了取笑演員接到的角色,在戲中全部西口西面,就可能是看梁家輝和郭富城鬧交十分爽。「恐怖襲擊」開始之後,一班西裝革履高級警員趕到指揮部開會。每個重要人物,畫面上都列出各人的官銜。多年來我們看警匪片,代表執法者的探員、警員、差佬,有過千百,卻甚少交代他們細緻官職。而《寒戰》正是對「香港武裝部隊職位學」的大眾科普。
警隊的深層次矛盾
據電影及警隊網站,警務處處長之下,有兩個副處長,一個是行動副處長,一個是管理副處長。(19年後還增加一個副處長,專責維護國家安全。) 而管理警察的上級部門是保安局,監察機關是監警會。
不要說外國觀眾,那個年代本地觀眾看也是一頭霧水。
電影中行動副處長李文彬作風鷹派,加上親兒子亦被擄,於是未經管理副處長同意,自己坐上署理一哥之位,揚言要三份二警力全數參與營救行動,並以「寒戰行動」之名宣佈香港進入緊急狀態。作為管理副處長的劉傑輝認為不妥,便拉攏了各個憲委級高級警員,要迫李文彬下台。最後所處外地的一哥打電話回來,問誰是寒戰行動總指揮。李文彬馬上就知道自己失勢,明白「迫宮」並不是劉傑輝一個人的意思,而是警隊最高領導人的意思。
李文彬突然擁有全警隊最高權力,其基礎是「寒戰」和「恐襲威脅」背後的「戰時體制」思維。迫宮行動之前,劉傑輝找了保安局局長劉德華聊天,劉德華竟然對他說,非常時期,要用非常手段。
而警隊當時一哥雖然話不多,但態度上已經等於委任劉傑輝去「撥亂反正」,接掌寒戰行動。或者說這兩個高位人物,從這裡已經透露出他們屬於不支持李文彬的勢力。而匪徒其實都是以O記警員,加上警隊 deep state 策劃陰謀。即《寒戰》以警匪片的格局打開,卻基本取消了匪徒。戲中匪徒首先是警員自己,再後面則是那個神龍見尾不見尾的 deep state 警隊集團。
陰謀背後的陰謀
「大片」作為龐大工業和資本的產物,它的套路是將武戲文拍,將警匪鬥智鬥力的傳統,轉移到搬到權鬥辦公室,方便影帝見面吵架。而且每一次的套路都是你以為這就是陰謀?但陰謀背後其實還有更大陰謀,欲知後事如何,請繼續期待《寒戰III》。
《寒戰》最後李文彬洞察幕後黑手是自己兒子,最後大義滅親將其拘捕。其犯案理由亦不需要秘密審訊。兒子李家俊坦白,劉傑輝上場後不斷收縮警隊資源,為了保衛自己利益的警員都在暗中支持這場行動。只要用寒戰行動引劉傑輝入局,出了問題就等於搞掉了他整條線,上至保安局劉德華、下至整條管理梯隊。
所以看畢這部電影你會得出一個奇幻印象,天下本無事,香港危機和威脅之源,竟是由於警隊內鬥。
2012年,警民關係相當好,但《寒戰》的弦外之音卻讓你想到,香港的治安安全問題,會不會並非肇禍於過去的古惑仔?古惑仔電影息微,但關於高級警務人員的內鬥電影卻推陳出新,作為一種新的文體出現。香港無法保持「最安全的城市」的原因,竟是因為警隊自己造成。這種「走得太前」,令人十分細思極恐。
而鄧柄強高遷保安局局長之後,接替他的蕭澤頤就是行動副處長,即梁家輝的那個職位。
這類基於職權而產生的戲劇矛盾,在《寒戰 II》繼續揭露出來。恐怖份子繼續行動,綁架劉傑輝一家,導致電影中的警務處一哥要自己押送犯人,還失敗走犯,繼而受到全港輿論和立法會權力及特權法委員會審問。
這一連串行動的 (暫時) 幕後黑手,是前一哥蔡元祺。蔡元祺對李文彬曉以大義,表示沖鋒車只是第一招,他們目標是組建一個特區新班子。只要寒戰行動之後產生的醜聞發得大,劉傑輝就會下台,警隊也會自保與一哥割席,李文彬就可以在各界社會賢達支持下重掌警隊。
再加上蔡元祺幕後籌謀,警界、立法會、政府內部勢力配合,律政司司長黎永廉一旦成功當選特首,這個班子就會風山水起。蔡元祺帶李文彬入黑房與賢達密談,對方許諾到時需要李sir「屈就」做住警隊一哥,之後還會升做保安局局長。
為了推劉傑輝下台,律政司司長去了找議會大炮簡奧偉,想借他的嘴炮在立法會轟掉劉傑輝。然而簡奧偉不打算參與,回絕了那部特別版 Leica 相機,並且要自己親自審問劉李二人,好搞清楚整個政治大陰謀。
以律政司司長為首的這群角色,在小黑房實際上是談論一個「涉嫌操控和奪取政權的陰謀」,至於他們背後是甚麼人,整部電影還沒開估,但情理之中的發展其實半透明地推演了出來。
探長們的勢力
為甚麼他們要拉攏李文彬?因為連李文彬背景特殊,都鋪了兩集篇幅。兩部戲涉及很多香港敏感歷史。李文彬的爸爸在英治年代,做到華人最高總警司。(歷史中也有類似的人物,例如方奕輝)。那個年代做較低級人員,反而可以得到更多延後利益。四大探長的「探長」只是員佐級,但他們可以憑職便搭通天地線,成為一方之豪。得到「富」之後,就可以向「貴」進發。
即使不是貪污弄權,警界人員可以在警隊裡面安排自己人,形成一個一個山頭派系,有自己的接班部署。中間當然經歷過 ICAC 成立、紀律重組,衝突期間有警察跑上廉署搗亂以戰迫和,最終集體貪污也被英國特赦。
劇中的李文彬就等於在警隊內部制訂的接班部署中慢慢成長,火速晉升。到了 1995 年英國即將撤走,便將政治部解散,處理過機密資料而有人身安全的高級人員,紛紛假死並獲得海外居留權。李文彬則用職權編排警隊資源,安排匯線人費到海外給舊手足,但劉傑輝多年來削減警隊資源,便觸怒了這班舊手足,在蔡元祺的煽動下回來香港「支持」李文彬復辟。
故事最後安排劉傑輝聯同 ICAC 成功揭發蔡元祺陰謀,在特首、保安局等人考慮授意後,要求蔡元祺賣掉掌握警隊通訊系統公司的股份,永遠離開香港,否則就會拘捕和檢控。然而編導拍完了,最後又是說欲知後事如何……
不談坑洞和故弄玄虛的地方,《寒戰》的戲劇邏輯如此展開:一開始有恐怖襲擊,後來發現更大陰謀是關於一哥位置爭奪戰。《寒戰 II》也是如此,他拋出沖鋒車的餘波,卻又告訴你此陰謀背後有更大陰謀,是一個控制三司十幾局和警隊的政治大陰謀。
循此擴大,預想中的《寒戰 III》就要講中英鬥爭。由於有憑大中國資金,寫得藍藍地並且符合主旋律,可以這樣想:蔡元祺背後的是甚麼人?極有可能是英國特務。1995 年政治部解散事件一再提起,看來不是多了心眼。江湖傳聞政治部解散之後,英國在香港各行各業都留有間諜,包括警隊。蔡元祺等於說,他們無法控制上面選擇甚麼人,但他們只要清除了非自己派系的警員管理層,提供都是自己人的人選,那麼上面怎樣任命,都是自己人,藉此方法就可以控制警隊。
蔡元祺的戰略展開,在網裡面參與者似乎都可以實現自己的議程。智商天才但閱歷頭腦簡單的李家俊,就是想父親上位;李文彬的舊手足,則是為了爭取生活費和支持舊上司。他們最後被蔡元祺犧牲,但這只是深層 deep state 的駁腳,還未傷到真身。
神秘的徐步高
英國 95 年後在香港秘密佈建特務的講法,在徐步高殺警之後,坊間逐漸有人相信。因為徐步高披麻戴孝捧著「民主(已死)」的招牌參加遊行,又故意擔任一些警隊閒職,並且四處去視察重要地方、跟蹤重要人物,種種行徑似乎像間諜多過精神病人。徐步高的神秘死亡案件,在死因庭也是草草審結,坊間便有猜忌徐步高背後的迷霧,可能涉及國家級間諜和反間諜行動。如果《寒戰 III》要加進一點主旋律,整個故事揭穿了就是港英餘孽在香港試圖奪權的史詩戰爭。
警隊因為有幾十年跟港英政府合作無間,利益掛鉤了很多年,回歸之後幹部等於「帶病提拔」,「歷史不乾淨」。律政司司長當然也是受到英美祝福,而《寒戰 II》裡面也有很多現役警察是蔡元祺的臥底。
作為兩次大破案關鍵的劉傑輝,則代表中方意願。整個寒戰奪權行動,是由保安局長劉德華暗示的,劉德華亦不可能不親中。整個故事可以高空視角下變成一場「香港保衛戰」:北京屬意的劉 sir,對抗潛伏在香港警隊 (和各界) 港英 deep state;新秩序對抗復辟勢力。所以第一集劉傑輝說:「最出事係個行動代號 (寒戰)」;第二集蔡 sir 對李文彬說,你用了寒戰這個行動代號,有意思。
寒戰 (Cold War) 這個行動代號,即隱喻了新冷戰在香港徐徐上演。所謂第三代通訊系統,也許是說香港情報一直操控在英美手上。
權威、人情、派系
當然故事真如此發展,不知香港票房會不會受到影響。然而如果寫向另一個方向,蔡sir 背後如果設定為中國,就可能拍不出來。如果能拍,籠罩香港上空的巨大威脅必須是英美勢力。蔡sir最後「流亡」,而劉sir作為獲得中方信任繼續坐鎮本土,「香港唔係佢地可以為所欲為既地方」,媚媚地,藍藍地,但可能亦是大片必做的維他奶式妥協。
在維基百科關於「香港警務處」一頁,記到「反對逃犯條例修訂運動」一章,寫道:「長期關注人權和警權議題的沈偉男認為,在系統性包庇之下,警隊內部對示威者的敵視態度和濫權的警隊文化日益瀰漫,這種不良風氣與警隊一貫封閉而重紀律、權威、人情、派系的環境有關。」
《寒戰》不管怎樣或會不會寫下去,關於警隊的封閉、重紀律、權威、人情、派系等方面,都有細微描寫,也就是這種特定機關文化,導致兩部電影中的恐怖襲擊,其實都是由警隊內部引發出來。