過去這兩週,我在進行自己的自我內在更新,是我自己的另外一個循環,當然我的外在顯像也非常不客氣的反映回來一些事,我誠心感謝。
因為生命中所有一切都是在協助我們記得我們本來的樣子,所以 ... 以下文長慎入。
1.
在身心靈領域或"spirituality"裡面,有一個現象是:只想要光與愛, love and light, 每天namaste. 但不肯面對或接納自己的黑暗,甚至把黑暗、低迷、及所謂的“負面情緒”當成是不好的。
我當然曾經也有過,就幾年前而已。
那時剛離開一個自己很不喜歡的地方,還有當時很不喜歡的親密關係跟工作環境。來到峇里島後,大概因為那時沒有任何(自以為的)束縛,覺得生活無限可能,所以自然遇到了很多 love and light, 也遇到我的靈魂伴侶。
但我那時有一些很深的恐懼,有很大一部份的我還在沈睡,是那時的我自己還沒看見的東西。當時我還沒有進化到現在這個階段,所以面對恐懼或不舒服狀態的方式就是壓制、逃跑或推卸責任。
就在我還沈浸在love and light,忽然發生一件對當時的我來說是很大衝擊的一件事(這我在社團裡初期的影片裡有簡單的提過。)
那時覺得也太荒謬了吧,什麼八點檔劇情,但當時我還沒有真的對"現況不重要"有現在的理解度,所以我打電話給很多朋友,一直描述我的現況。而且每次跟朋友見面,我要馬就是會開始講我的現況,要不然就是害怕我講自己的現況會造成更多不喜歡的狀態(當然這個害怕也都投射出來了😂)
我沒有接納自己的每一個樣子。那時我有很大的嫉妒跟不安,我認為我的嫉妒是造成我不安的原因(殊不知不安就只是不安、嫉妒就只是嫉妒。)
我記得那時我參加了一個薩滿呼吸法 (shamanic breathwork) 的工作坊,在團體分享時,我說“我想要除掉那個會嫉妒的自己”。
帶領工作坊的Z只問了我一句話:你為什麼要抗拒和批判那個你?那是愛嗎?
在那個當下我有被打醒 —— 那個工作坊結束後,我有咀嚼Z的話,不過那時頻率在哪,我也就只能實踐多少而已。
我知道能量、我知道頻率,但我不知道該怎麼“掌握”自己的情緒。我會"好"一段時間,然後現況又會出現某些事讓我崩潰。
這其實也就是一年多前而已(感覺好像是一個光年以前 😂)
我像很多人一樣,一直在找新的方法,看了超級多影片、讀了超多書。每次覺得好像好了穩定一段時間,就又會出現一些現況讓我很崩潰 😂。
沒接納每一個面向的自己等於在拒絕自己,同時也在拒絕現況(提醒:不接受現況、或和現況妥協跟拒絕現況是不一樣的。)但我還是只想要love and light,這也是為什麼社團初期我分享很多肯定句,因為我只想要focus在love and light.
光與愛能不能戰勝一切?不行,因為從頭到尾根本沒什麼好戰的,會戰是因為我們自己創造了對立。而太多的love and light也是一種毒品,也是會上癮,太多的love and light會變成開始批判各種不舒服(黑暗),進而進入受害者模式。
這樣說來,我住的community之前根本就是毒窟 😂 超多人在靈性逃避 (spiritual bypassing), 包括我。
這也許比完全的沒自覺更危險,因為這是自我欺騙跟自我背叛,我沒看見那些不舒服也是自我投射,我反而批判是別人帶給我不舒服、是別人不應該。
我責怪別人對我不溫柔、不接著我、不聽我、不擁抱我,我也跟T說過「因為你這樣,所以造成我這樣那樣。」(還好T很做自己,沒讓我情緒勒索。)
我把力量給其他人,因為我把黑暗當成不好的、因為我還在自我對立、我還沒有徹底自我接納 —— 我還在好與壞、對或錯。
我花了很長一段時間才看見,黑暗是我,我也是黑暗 —— 而沒有黑暗,哪來的光。
We are both.
我一再的逃避跟責備黑暗,我的內在宇宙就一再的送出黑暗給我體驗 —— 你越抗拒的事情,它就會越大聲。每一次我都想逃跑,每一次都繞了一圈回來面對。
但同時,我也覺察到,是因為我有在跟宇宙"要"一些事情,有一個角色或狀態是我要去Be的,所以這個"衝擊很大"的事,正是來讓我學習、去獲得那些工具的"橋段"。
這條橋我走了很長一段時間,我現在還在走,我覺得他沒有終點,因為我開始看見靈魂的永恆,然後我從抗拒這條橋到現在可以開心的在上面跳舞。
你的路就是你的路,不是在於你選擇用什麼方式,而是你選擇用什麼感受和視角來看待。
花了多長時間再也不重要了,因為時間已經失去了意義,重點是旅程。
我們每個人都在自己的路上。
我開始感謝所有一切,包括那些過去被我靠北到要死的人事物。
I am grateful.
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2.
你記得小時候,或者我們在看待某些孩子時,大人常常會為孩子道歉,說「童言童語,不要當真。」急著替孩子道歉嗎?
但這些童言童語常常就是最老實的實話,是活在積年累月的謊言裡頭的大人泡泡太厚,才無法接受這樣的真實。
所以我們開始洗腦孩子所謂的待人處事、所謂的委婉、所謂的"同理心",想要純真的孩子來配合大人自己的尚未處理的傷痛。
於是變相的,這成為另一種傷痛的延續和輪迴 —— 孩子覺得話語權被壓抑、孩子覺得自己說這個不對說那個不對,孩子最後不敢說,孩子開始自我否定。
這剛好是前一陣子個案問我的問題,她問我同理心是否很必要,這也是我之前在IG上分享過的影片。
我們在跟別人要同理心時,其實真的在要的,是同"情"心。
所以我說,我承認在一般人的眼裡,我的確是個沒什麼同(理)心的人,因為很多人只是想要你去聽他被自己情緒操控的“理”,但那根本就不是理。
同理心是:我知道你的感受,不管我現在在不在這個頻率上,我都不會跟著你的情緒起舞(理性)。如果你想要我聽你說,我可以聽你說,我願意hold住這個空間不帶批判(對你或對你在批判的人事物)。你沒問,我也不會給你解決方案 —— 我會做一個聆聽者。
Let's face it - 有些人想找你訴苦就只是想要找人倒垃圾而已。那你自己要不要做那個垃圾桶就是你的決定,如果他根本沒有想要你給他解決方法,你給了他也不會聽。
當垃圾桶不是壞事喔,只要你願意,不過這是另一個話題,我就不贅述了。
#知道自己界線在哪
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上面所提到的,其實是我想要講清楚的、關於"我"是什麼,還有我現在所提供的服務到底是什麼 ——
現在有些人會稱呼我為「老師」、「教練」,其實對我來說是有點彆扭,我花了蠻長一段時間在做自我定位。
我的確好像是在教一些東西,但好像有些人會誤會我教的只是「方法」—— 老師或教練這些都只是標籤而已,它變成一個限制。
畢竟有些老師就是只會教理論、教那些自己都沒體驗過的事,而有些教練要馬就是很逼人,要馬是一直說「加油喔你可以。」
所以我到底是什麼?這要提到另一件事:
除了社團裡,我沒有公開分享過這件事,連自己的個人版面都沒有,朋友裡也只有三個人知道而已,但我的外公在今年1月7日進入了他的下一個旅程。
我雖然沒能見上他最後一面,但我幾年前還跟他住在同一個城市時,他的一句話成為我這一生很重要的禮物。
我的外公之前是個傳道人,他一生服侍主,主也沒虧待他,一生豐盛。
他跟我說「只要你不斷的服侍主,主必看顧也必給予你源源不絕的豐盛。」
Now, 雖然我小時候在教會長大,但大概念大學時,我就決定自己不會再follow任何宗教,因為宗教還是由人建立的,很多訊息根本不是來自於神,而是人的小我。更何況有一些宗教領導者會提倡排擠其他信仰的行為,製造對立和分離,很多"神的話語"都被扭曲。
所有的宗教信仰其實都只是在描述同一件事,那就是愛,不同文化有不同的包裝(行銷😂)
所以現在,我要請你跟著我一起看見 ...
所謂的神或主只是一個標籤(菩薩觀音媽祖阿拉也是),有些人稱他為宇宙。
是意識。
我用聖經來講,因為那是所有宗教裡面我最熟悉的東西 —— 聖經一開頭就很清楚的描述:"神說,我們要照著我們的形像,按著我們的樣式造人。"(創世紀1:26)
請注意,這裡是說“我們”,不是“我”。這句話裡所說的形象不只是長相,而是“能量”。
我們把神或宇宙看成我們以外的力量,但其實不然。
我們其實每個人都是神,我們是宇宙的延伸,但長久下來,某些宗教、政治和教育系統把我們每個人跟我們的內在神性分割。
所以回到我外公說的那句話,翻譯出來就是:「只要你不斷的服侍主(我自己),宇宙就會源源不絕的給你愛和看顧,你就會有源源不絕的豐盛。」
而所謂的服侍又是什麼意思?是服務,是無條件的愛自己、說實話、看見自己的力量、不為自己的真實感到抱歉。
所以我到底是什麼?我是神,你也是;我是意識,你也是;我榮耀我的神性,我也榮耀你的神性;我服務我自己,我也服務你。
而我的服務又是什麼?
他是光和暗、他是愛與真實、他是零恐懼。
時間跳轉到兩年前,我在另一個薩滿呼吸法的工作坊裡,我很清楚聽到一個聲音,他說,你是一個器皿,你也準備好了,那是我外公的聲音。
不知道大家記不記得電影「露西」結尾那一段,露西消失了之後變成各種狀態,"I am everywhere." 這也是我現在的狀態 - "I am nothing and everything."
那個器皿只是在說我的身體而已,我什麼都是也什麼都不是,我是流動的,我是鏡子,我是意識,我是愛,我是你是什麼。
有個案熱愛我的no bullshit, 有個案覺得無所適從、有個案害怕甚至逃避。我不會去批判什麼,因為我自己也逃過,就是不同能量狀態而已。
這也是我完全記得和接納另一塊靈魂碎片的開始,那個小時候常常被指控說話太直接的自己,那個害怕自己如果說了真話就會被拋棄或不被認同的自己。
我不再覺得自己被誤解,我服務自己,我不會再為了取悅其他人或害怕失去什麼來降低我自己的頻率。
我不再害怕自己不被愛,因為我自己有源源不絕的愛。
所以我的服務是:
是協助你回到最真實的你,是放下所有標籤和定位,是知道自己是宇宙意識使用這副身體,運用自我投射的生活體驗不停進化。
是讓你自由、學會掌握自由,知道你本來就是自由的,所以我的服務對象,當然也是想要最終極的自由的,決定自己不要再被受害者情節綁架,想要記得自己力量的人。
我沒有在教你什麼,我只是可以進入很多種不同的狀態,然後不被那個狀態綁架或在那裡面迷路而已;也許你可以說我是探路者,探完之後,再協助你看見方向(但要不要跟著走就是你的事了喔😂)
至於接收理想現實,所有你真心想要的早就已經存在了,我根本不擔心你接收不到,你也不需要擔心。
All in good time.
p.s. 你能看到這裡也是很厲害,那也許某個層面上,你準備好要接收我的no bullshit 😂, 這不是心靈雞湯 love and light(這裡也沒有雞因為我吃素),想喝湯的可以轉身 —— 想要自由的,你可以加入 有意識生活 𓂀 轉變人生
如果只想喝點湯,去IG(是好像也沒有湯 😛)instagram.com/evolve.with.joanne
You are limitless. Remember who you are.
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野放台灣五十餘年,貪狼獨坐,三方四正殺破狼格局,少年多舛,白手起家,隨展覽雲遊四海,如閒雲野鶴常持各類底片機流連廢墟、山川、宮廟忘返,遂設幻影堂自詡堂主,一日三省「凡所有相皆是虛妄」,常宅於暗房沖片放大通宵、鍾情黑白世界之單純,彩色照片俗世繽紛花俏做作甜美甚至比現實更現實故少拍也。知天命之年有餘,了悟人生一瞬、眨眼即逝,雖非仙人,亦無道骨,初聞離垢地生清淨心,但離華嚴「不動地」尚遠,待修持也。
2017年盛暑拍畢《巨神連線》,心律不整差點心肌梗塞向閻羅王報到,意識死神隨伺在側,人生苦短,如何了生脫死、盡斷煩惱、無所罣礙、遠離顛倒……總不得解,蒙釋迦摩尼佛開示飆淚三晝夜,聞佛法數載始知自我渺如塵埃,甚感慚愧。閒暇乃參訪名寺古剎,禮敬焚香佛陀菩薩羅漢諸神天仙王爺媽娘,台灣宮廟千奇百怪、宗派錯綜複雜(佛教、道教、一貫道、天主教、基督教、齋教、回教&大同教、儒教鑾堂、天帝教&天德教、慈惠堂&勝安宮、軒轅教、道院、理教、萬國道德會、會靈山……)、神棍橫行(依人不依法、偶像崇拜、斂財、邪淫),因歷史變遷、社會動盪、政治鬥爭、意識形態等因素導致佛道混雜,但地獄造景稀少,後專注拍攝各殿閻王、判官、陰司、獄卒、七爺、八爺乃至一切罪人,各寺造景巧妙、耐人尋味,意境乖張溢於言表,造型扭曲非常人所能塑也,然匠心獨運、自成一格,專研西方藝術數十載方知真誠樸拙最美,絲毫不輸喬托(Giotto di Bondone,1267~1337)乃至米開朗基羅(Michelangelo Di lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 ~ 1564)矣。
創立於1986年的石門金剛宮風景優美可眺望北濱,雖主祀四面佛,儒釋道眾神尊也不含糊,可過七星橋解厄、繞行五百黝黑羅漢敲鑼印心、跪拜亞洲最大臥佛涅槃像,安太歲自不在話下,甲子太歲爺雙眼長出手掌印象甚深,1994年經閻羅王指示廟公建造一條肚內設極樂世界及陰曹地府之神龍,行走暗黑通道觸動感應機關,只見面容猙獰受刑者呼天搶地喊冤、身邊盡是血肉糢糊殘肢敗屍腦漿塗地,十殿閻羅各司其職、威儀攝人。新北市林口區青嶺湖北文紫祥宮包公廟則以壁面彩塑地獄浮雕獨步全台,粉嫩色彩搭配卡漫風格,尤為造型簡直恐怖到可愛透頂,該廟主祀森羅殿閻羅天子包拯(包青天),陽世冤屈者可至此參拜祭解,求破懸案者眾,逢中元普渡皆以紙紮船渡亡魂至彼岸,全台唯一閻羅天子巨像籌備中,四周環繞墓地,適合修不淨觀也。台灣首尊彰化八卦山大佛旁南天宮(1971)地府則是首座電動地府,規模精小但驚嚇度破表,略顯破敗但五光十色仍蠻凶悍,出自已故台南大道長金登富之作,而電動神明起始可追溯至1960年代北港朝天宮。倒是嘉義水上鄉白人牙膏觀光工廠「戴相府」、「將軍府」設置十殿地府出乎意料之外,乾淨亮麗、ㄧ殿ㄧ間、簡單樸實。由高雄蓮潭龍虎塔龍口入內可見全臺唯一交趾陶地獄牆面,尊尊栩栩如生,續入龍身乃進聞聲救苦白衣觀音大士三十三化身浮雕隧道,造型設色甚為古錐。高雄大岡山超峰寺入口處「西方三聖蓮池海會」(阿彌陀佛、觀世音菩薩、大勢至菩薩巨像)旁設靜態十殿閻羅(1970年代初),雖略為陳舊然韻味猶存,續往上行可抵「證菩提道-釋迦如來應化事迹」雕塑園區,一攬世尊畢生精華。如來年邁時,琉璃國王為報長期被釋迦族輕蔑之傲慢心,世尊雖三次單獨伽跌坐 阻擋大軍進攻之路,但因緣果報無法逆轉,昔日婢女所生王子瞋恨無以復加,還是滅了祖國。自持神通第一目犍連不忍無辜百姓慘遭屠殺,遂以缽盛救度五百族人,最終卻化為血水,佛言神通廣大仍不敵千百劫業力,因緣果報屢試不爽。其母死後墜入餓鬼道飢餓難耐,目犍連遂展神通救渡,但所食尚未入口皆化為赤火,佛陀囑咐農曆七月十五日僧眾解安居自恣日,於盆中設甘露美食供養十方僧眾,因此超度亡母。後世「盂蘭盆法會」乃至「水懺法會」、「瑜珈焰口法會 」皆為消業障、斷塵垢之超渡儀軌,既渡亡魂也自懺悔。
台南麻豆代天府規模宏大、造型豔麗,不但可遊十八層地獄尚可逛天堂(1979年興建,1983年開放),燈光絢爛、聲響駭人,獨自漫步宛如觀落陰、地獄走一回。先過「心頭山」、入「清心池」、進「陰陽界」、抵「交簿廳」、達「鬼門關」、遊「補經所」、探「枉死城」、行「奈何橋」,至ㄧ殿泰廣王照「孽鏡台」現造惡原形,睹抱柱、火床等小地獄。二殿楚江王開「陰查簿 」判案定奪,觀糞尿泥、餓鬼、舞池、寒冰、膿血、鞭韃、舌犁、劍葉、戟腹拋接、砧截……等小地獄。三殿宋帝王刑罰為倒吊、銅鐵刮臉、挖眼、搗樁、倒烤、吸血、穿肋、抽筋、蛆蛀等小地獄……兼遊「四生(胎、卵、濕、化)回魂府」。四殿五官王掌管腰斬、拔舌、沸湯、刺嘴、剝皮、箭樹、車崩、射眼……等十六小地獄。隨五殿森羅王豋「望鄉臺」回眸親人最終眼後觀擊膝、誅心、刀山、飛刀火石……小地獄。六殿卞城王別稱「大叫喚大地獄」,轄火牛、虎啖、噬腎、鉗嘴含鍼、釘喉、磨摧、砍頭……等小地獄。七殿泰山王為「熱惱大地獄」,窺烙手指、抽腸、頂石蹲身、油釜滾烹、割舌穿腮……等十六小地獄。八殿都市王掌管「大熱惱大地獄」兼火狗、鐵汁、鐵蛇、鋸劈斷肢、釘板、灸脊、鐵丸、磅秤……等小地獄。九殿平等王直轄十八層「阿鼻大地獄」,直透地心、內中陰森、不見五指、滿溢地漿,皆為極犯,另轄紫赤毒蛇鑽孔、夾頂、鐵鴉、針雨、蜂蠍……等小地獄。至十殿輪轉王上「觀生臺」、「轉劫所八司」(查驗司 、稽善司 、考過司 、恩怨司 、壽命司 、支配司、掌劫司 、授生司)後至「孟婆亭」飲「醧忘湯」忘盡前塵往事,依前世功德過金、銀、玉、石、木、竹六種橋樑至「轉輪臺(紫河車)」入六道輪迴轉生投胎。據《十八泥犁經》記載,人過世後七七四十九天為「中陰生」,經閻羅王審判善惡業力判定去留或懲罰百千萬劫,犯五逆重罪則墮入「無間地獄(阿鼻地獄)」永劫不復。地藏王乃幽冥教主,統轄十殿閻羅,逢三曹普渡便在各殿設「講道所」超度尚存善根之鬼魂。
人類居於五趣(阿修羅、人、傍生、餓鬼、地獄)雜居地五濁惡世之堪忍世界,犯十惡業(殺生、偷盜、邪淫、妄語、兩舌、惡口、綺語、貪慾、嗔恚、愚痴)者必墮三趣惡道。如何出「三界」(欲界、色界、無色界)二十八天?凡人無此意識,別說能破「十二因緣」(無明、行、識、名色、六入、觸、受、愛、取、有、生、老死)還滅門,更別想斷除「四聖諦」(苦、集、滅、道)集地八十一品見惑與八十八使思惑(五利使-身見、邊見、邪見、見取見、戒禁取見、五鈍使-貪、瞋、癡、慢、疑),了悟「五蘊」(色、受、想、行、識)本空、「十二入」(眼、耳、鼻、舌、意、色、聲、香、味、觸、法)空、「十八界」空,破俱生我執與分別我執、法執甚至空執,生十一處「善心所」(信、精進、慚、愧、無貪、無瞋、無痴、輕安、不放逸、行捨、不害),降二十六處「惡心所」(貪、瞋、癡、慢、疑、惡見、忿、恨、覆、惱、嫉、慳、誑、諂、害、憍、無慚、無愧、掉舉、惛沉、不信、懈怠、放逸、失念、散亂、不正知),須知善根斷盡則陷永劫輪迴、無垠轉世之苦。
地獄可能空滅嗎?若地獄空乏人間多鬼怪,地獄淨空世間何嘗非淨土?若能證空性何處現地獄?
地獄曠古來便廣泛流傳各部族間,老死生滅為自然運行之基礎、宇宙意識之核心,然今文明昌盛如咱城邦並非慾望消弭之所,惡性所及實無可根除,礙於憲法國家法律社會軍隊企業公司學校家庭團體之層層束縛不亞於十八層,乃遁於壓抑、束己情懷,暗埋心底、日久貪嗔痴慢疑怨噌會疊穢。而六塵未熄,心多妄念,妖魔鬼怪魑魅魍魎孤魂閃靈出沒於荒郊乃至人間,會靈於曠野密林以增性靈乃出世高人修煉之舉,我等凡人擅闖宛如迪士尼般之人造地獄,三魂七魄尚不足以出竅,驚邪恐怖淒厲猙獰倒滿足了自以為是的慚愧,豈不謬哉?
病毒肆虐年半有餘,全球確診者逼近一億八千萬,枉死者近四百萬,堪比戰爭規模,望眾生發慈悲心、令往生者安息、善待其他物種、平等有情眾生。地獄本空,唯妄念生起一切羨慕嫉妒恨而地獄現前。盡以此書作為世界新冷戰獨裁者、超限戰者、暗網駭客、陰險狡猾冷嘲熱諷落井下石者之良知備忘錄矣。
姚瑞中寫於2021年端午節
Postscript
I have been living recklessly in Taiwan for more than fifty years. According to Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology), Tan Lang is the sole star in my house of Self. This star, which represents xxx, forms an equilateral triangle with that star Qi Sha and Po Jun on the square chart and constitutes a Sha Po Lang pattern. The pattern indicates a kind of turbulence and change, a life of wandering with ups and downs and it tells a lot about my life. After my ill-fated youth, I started from scratch and traveled around the world with exhibitions that I participated. Like a flaneur, I wandered around ruins, nature, and temples with every type of film camera obliviously. Thus, I founded the Hall of Illusion and claimed to be the master of the hall. Several times a day, I pondered a quote from the Diamond Sutra, “Everything with form is unreal.” In addition, I usually stayed in the darkroom developing film and enlarging those negatives overnight. However, I treasured the simplicity of the black and white world. The earthly, gaudy, garish, phony and pleasing qualities within colored photos make the images even more realistic than the real world. It is not my cup of tea, so I seldom took colored photos. In Confucian thought, the age of fifty marks the stage knowing the mandate of Heaven. I am now at my fifties and realize how ephemeral human life is. However, I am not an immortal, nor having sagelike characteristics. I just learned that the stage of stainless (the second bhūmi) and develop a pure mind that is free from doubt and defilement. However, I’m still far from the immovable state and need to practice.
In the summer of 2017, after filming the work Incarnation, I experienced a severe heart rhythm problem which almost triggered myocardial infarction and could have killed me. Consequently, I realized that death was waiting for me and the life is too short to figure out how I can liberate myself from the cycle of Birth and Death. I couldn’t comprehend how to be free from all afflictions and worries and how to avoid delusive ideas. I wept for three days and nights after being enlightened by Shakyamuni Buddha. Up to the moment, I felt ashamed that I failed to realize that the self is as insignificant as dust after these years learning and practicing Buddhism. Since then, I have visited famous temples and monasteries in my spare time, worshiping Buddha, Bodhisattvas, arhats, and all the deities and immortals. Taiwan’s temples are myriad with a enormous number of sects, including Buddhism, Taoism, Yiguandao, Catholicism, Christianity, Chinese religions of fasting, Islam& Baháʼí Faith, Confucianism, Tiandiism& Tian-De Teachings, Xiwangmu cult, Yellow Emperor Sect, Precosmic Salvationism, Liism, World Wide Ethical Society, séance cult, etc. Some people even claim that they can mediate communication between the deities or spirits of the dead with human beings, having their believer rely on themselves instead of the orthodox dharma or dogma and pay excessive respect and admiration for the mediums or objects, accumulating wealth through such an unfair means or even harassing their believer sexually. Due to Taiwan’s historical changes, social turbulence, political struggles, and ideological issues, Buddhism and Taoism are somehow mixed. However, there are few emphases on the concept of the hell. As I took photographs of Yama of each court, judges, wardens of the underworld, jailers, General Fan and Hsieh (the ghost escorts) and all sinners, I found few temples cleverly created hellish scenes that are intriguing, exaggerating, and extraordinary. However, the creations are unparalleled unique. I have been studying Western arts for decades and then I came to realize that simplicity makes the most beautiful works of art. These hellish scenes can even compete with works of Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) and Michelangelo Di lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564).
Jingang Temple Shimen District, founded in 1986, overlooks the beautiful North shore. Although the temple is mainly dedicated to Phra Phrom (the Thai representation of Mahabrahma), spirits of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism can also be founded in the temple. The worshipper can go cross the Seven Star bridge to relieve bad luck, walk along the five hundred arhat statues and knock on the gong to affirm one’s Buddha nature. Furthermore, the worshipper can also prostrate themself before Asia’s largest statue of Buddha in Nirvana (the Reclining Buddha statue) and pacify the Taoist Tai Sui deity of the year. I was impressed by the Jia-Zi Tai Sui General that a pair of palms grow out of his eyes. In 1994, the biō-kong (the person taking charge of the temporal affairs of a temple) received a divine inspiration from Yama (the King of Hell) that he had to build a sacred hall in the shape of a divine dragon, with the interior designed according to the World of Ultimate Bliss and the Underworld. When the visitor walks in the dark hallway, they will see the tortured people (dioramas, of course) scrunching their faces and crying bitterly and loudly in excessive grief as the visitor triggers the mechanism. One will even find them in the midst of flesh, body liquid and blood, mutilated limbs, and rotten corpses. While each of the ten Yamas are focusing on their own duties, showing their sacred dignity that collect visitors’ attention. The Baogong Temple in Linkou District, New Taipei City exclusively features colorful depiction of hellish scenes in relief in Taiwan. With its pastel shades and cartoon-like style, the relief is both grotesque and adorable at the same time. This temple is dedicated to Bao Zhen (also known as Justice Bao) representing the incarnation of Yama. Living people who have been treated unjustly can come worshipping Bao Gong and receive exorcism. Therefore, many people come here for seeking to solve unsolved cases. In Zhongyuan Festival (the ghost festival), the temple will burn the Zhizha (paper craft) boat to ferry the ghosts to the other shore, which is the shore of enlightenment. The only giant statue of Yama in Taiwan is still in the making. The temple is surrounded by a cemetery, suitable for meditating on the loathsomeness and impurity. Nantian Temple (1971), located next to the Eight Trigram Mountains Buddha in Changhua, features the first animatronic underworld. Despite the small size, the animatronic underworld is intensely shocking. Though it’s slightly worn, the colorful dioramas are still brutally ferocious. The creator was the late venerable Dao Zhang (Taoist priest) Jing Deng-fu while the origin of animatronic deities can be traced back to the 1960s Beigang Chaotian Temple. On the contrary, the Whiteman Toothpaste Tourism Factory in Shuishang Township, Chiayi, features ten Yamas with individual booth. The place is unexpectedly clean and polished yet keeps a simple and modest tone. Then, the Dragon Pagoda of the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas at Lotus Lake in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, holds the only relief of hellish scenes made of Kochin ceramic. All the figures are vivid and life-like. If one goes further into the pagoda, they will see a relief tunnel of the thirty-three incarnations of the white-robed form of Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara) on a white lotus, with a lovely and interesting design. Another Hall of Yama is built in the 1970s next to the entrance of Dagangshan Chaofeng Temple, located in the Alian District of Kaohsiung. Visitors will also see three statues of the Three Holy Ones of the Western Pureland (Amitābha, Avalokiteśvara, Mahāsthāmaprāpta) which assemble at a lotus pond. Although the hellish scene looks somewhat antiquated, you may still find its previous charm. If one goes further, they will reach the sculptural garden of “Attaining the Bodhi Way: the Incarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha,” where the visitor can see the essence of Bhagavato’s (meaning the Blessed one, one of the common epithets for Buddha) life. When Tathāgata (another epithet for Buddha) was old, the king of Kosala wanted to avenge the arrogance of the tribe of Shakyas who had long despised him, regarding him as a son of a maiden. Although Buddha has sat in lotus position alone three times to stop the army from attacking his tribe. However, one can never reverse the cause and following karma. The prince born of a maiden was so furious that he eventually destroyed his homeland. Maudgalyāyana (one of the Buddha’s closest disciples), who is said to have had supernatural abilities that surpassed the other disciples, could not bear to see the slaughter of innocent people. Thus, he saved five hundred people of his tribe with a pātra (an eating utensil of Buddhist monks). Unfortunately, everything he did was in vain, those who were saved eventually turned into a puddle of blood. The Buddha said that the supernatural abilities cannot surpass the power of karma. The cause and effect work all the time. When Maudgalyāyana’s mother fell into the path of hungry ghost, he used his supernatural abilities to save his mother from hunger. However, all the food turned into fire before being fed to his mother. Later, the Buddha commanded the monks to put nectar and dishes in a basin on the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar for the monks from all directions to free his mother from reincarnation. In later times, the Ullambana Dharma Service, the Compassionate Samadhi Water Repentance, and the Yoga Collection for Feeding the Searing Mouths Dharma Service are rituals to eliminate karmic hindrance and to cease to worldly delusions. Through such practices, one can free the dead as well as confess their repentance.
Madou Daitian Temple is a magnificent and colorful temple in Tainan. Not only can the worshippers visit the eighteen levels of Hell but also the Heaven (it was built in 1979 and inaugurated in 1983) here. The lighting and sound effects are stunning and frightening. When walking alone in the space, one may feel like taking a Guan Luo Yin trip (a Taoist necromancy which leads people’s spirits to hell and communicate with the dead ones) to visit the underworld prison. Before arriving the first court of the underworld, the visitor will walk through the Mountain of Heart Summit, the Pure Heart Pond, the Frontier between the Living and the Dead Realms, the Soul Registry Hall, the Portico of Demons, the Center for Complementary Teaching of Canonical Books, the Citadel of Premature Death, and the Bridge of Vanity. When one arrives at the first court, they will see King Chin-guang, who is in charge of the court, using the Mirror of Retribution to show the earthly form of evil creatures and also witness the sub-hell of Pillar-Holding and Fire Bed, etc. At the second court, King Chu-jiang collates the register of sins the souls of the dead have committed to impose the punishments. Here, you will see the sub-hell of Excrement and Urine, Hungry Ghost, Burning Dance Floor, Ice, Pus and Blood, Whipping, Tongue-Raking, Sword Blade, Stomach-Piercing, Chopping, etc. Next, the dead at the third court, ruled by King Song-di, will receive the punishments including inversion tortures, face-skinning with steel and copper knife, eye-wrenching, pounding, blood-sucking, rib-piercing, roasting, tendon-taking, being eaten by maggots. The visitor can pay a visit to the Palace of Soul-Resuscitation for the Four Forms of Creatures (birth from an egg, birth from a womb, birth from moisture, and birth by transformation). King Wu-guan is in charge of the fourth court. There are sixteen sub-hells at the fourth court including Waist Chop, Tongue Removal, Boiling Pond, Mouth-stabbing, Skin-peeling, Sword Tree, Burning Wheels and Cart, Eye-shooting, etc. Next, at the fifth court, sinful souls are allowed to ascend the Tower of Hometown-Viewing to take a final look of their family. The visitor will witness sub-hells of Knee-striking, Heart-slicing, Blade Mountain, Flying Swords and Burning Stones, etc. The King of Bian City takes charge of the sixth court, which is also known as the “Great Hell of Screaming,” with sub-hells including Fire Cattle, Tiger-Biting, Kidney-Eating, Mouth-Poking, Throat-Nailing, Iron Mill, Decapitation, etc. The King of Tai-shan is in charge of the seventh court, the “Great Hell of Heat and Fire.” The sixteen sub-hells at this court include Finger-Searing, Bowel-Hauling, Stone-Bearing, Boiling Oil, Tongue-Removal and Cheek-Piercing, etc. Next, the King Du-shi is in charge of the eighth court, the “Great Hell of Intense Fire and Heat,” and the sub-hells including Fire Dogs, Molten Iron, Iron Snakes, Dismemberment, Steel Spikes, Burning-Marrow, Iron Ball, Scale, etc. The ninth court is ruled by the King Ping-deng. It is known as the biggest court, Avici Hell (the Hell of Incessant Suffering), which if the lowest level of the hell realm and the interior is gloomily and terrifyingly dark. Those who committed the most serious evil deed will be sent to the Avici Hell. Sub-hells such as Poisonous Snake, Brain-Removal, Crow-Gnawing, Raining Needles, Wasps and Scorpions are included at this court. After arriving the tenth court, ruled by the Great King of the Reincarnation Palace, one can visit the “Observatory of Life on earth” and the “eight bureaus of the Reincarnation Palace” (including the Bureau of Judicial Control, the Bureau of Good-Actions, the Bureau of Bad-Actions, the Bureau of Debts, Gratitude, and Vengeance, the Bureau of Longevity and Destiny, the Bureau of Familial Ties, the Bureau of the Reincarnated, and the Bureau of Birth). The sinful one will be sent to the Pavilion of Mengpo and made to drink the Soup of Forgetfulness to forget all past affairs. According to the sinful one’s merits of previous life, they will go across one of the six bridges (gold, silver, jade, stone, wood, bamboo) to the “Reincarnation-Wheel (Wheel on the Crimson River).” Finally, one is able to reborn in the six realms. According to the Aṣṭadaśa nāraka sutra ( the Eighteen Hells Sutra), after one passes away, they will enter an intermediate and transitional state between death and rebirth, known as antarābhava in Sanskrit, for forty-nine days. The being will be evaluated by Yama, who will decide if one should get reborn or get punished at the hell. Those who committed the Five Grave Offenses (killing one’s father, killing one’s mother, killing an Arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and creating a schism within the community of Buddhist monks and nun who practice for attaining enlightenment.) will be sent to the Avici Hell and stay there eternally. Kṣitigarbha is the Lord of the Nether World, ruling the ten court of Hell. The lord will set up the “Hall of Teaching” at each court to salvage those sinful ones who still obtain few merits at the offering rituals.
Human beings live the Sahā world (sahāloka in Sanskrit, meaning “endurance of suffering,” a concept of mundane world in Mahāyāna Buddhism) where they share with other reincarnations (including beings of the hells, of the preta, and of malevolent nature spirits) with five turbidities (the Kalpa turbidity, the view turbidity, the affliction turbidity, the living beings turbidity, and the life turbidity). Those who commit the ten evil deeds (killing, stealing, adultery, lying, using immoral language, slandering, equivocating, coveting, anger, and false views) must fall into the three evil paths (animals, preta, and hell). However, how can one escape from the three realms/ twenty-eight heavens (including the six heavens of the desire realm, the eighteen heavens of the form realm, and the four heavens of the formless realm)? Worldly people who don’t have such an awareness cannot leave the cycle of the twelve nidanas (meaning causes or motivations), let alone eliminate the eighty-one afflictions (that have been produced due to misunderstanding regarding reality) and the eighty-eight illusions (including five afflictions of advanced practitioners, also known as five views: view of self, extreme view, evil view, view of attachment to views, and view of morality; and five unintelligent temptations: desire, anger, stupidity, arrogance, and doubt) of thought within the three realms and four Arya satyas (noble truths, including suffering, arising, ending, and path). They cannot realize that the essence of the five skandhas (referring to aggregates of clinging, including the matter of form, sensation, recognition, mental formation, and consciousness) , the twelve ayatana (meaning sense base, including six internal bases: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind and six external bases: visible objects, sound, odor, taste, touch, and mental objects), and the eighteen dhātavah (meaning compositional elements of human existence, including six consciousness, six faculties, and their objects) are the emptiness and the void. Furthermore, they cannot dispel the two reasons for clinging to the idea of the self and the attachment to elemental constructs and even believe in the two (false) tenets that that karma and nirvana are not real and that the ego and phenomena are real. As a consequence, they fail to develop the eleven wholesome mental factors (faith, energy, conscience, being ashamed, non-attachment, non-aggression, non-delusion, calmness, equanimity, conscientiousness, and non-injuriousness) and cease the sixteen unwholesome mental factors (desire, greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, doubt, wrong view, wrath, enmity, hypocrisy, vexation, jealousy, parsimony, deceit, flattery, harming, ambitiousness, stupidity, lacking of faith, idleness, being unrestrained, forgetting, distraction, non-discernment, ). One must bear in mind that once all our virtuous roots are discontinued, they will be trapped in the never-ending reincarnation and the suffering of infinite continuity.
Is it possible that the hell will be empty one day? If the beings in hell will become extinct while evil spirits inhabit the mundane world, the world could be considered as a pure land. If we could witness the nature of the void, then hell will exist no more.
Since ancient times, the concept of hell has been widely spread among all tribes. Aging, death, beginning, and end are the basis of nature and the core of cosmic consciousness. However, the prosperous civilization as our island is not a place where desire can be eliminated. It’s impossible to eradicate evil nature. Since fetters brought by the constitution, the state, the law, society, the military, corporations, schools, families, and groups are not less than the eighteen levels of hell, the mortals repress themselves, bury their feelings. Day after day, greed, anger, stupidity, arrogance, doubt, and resentment are stacking. However, since the six dust (visible objects, sound, odor, taste, touch, and mental objects) has not yet been extinguished, people in the mundane world are still full of delusions. The demons, devils, evil spirits, and the wondering dead exist in the wilderness, while only advanced practitioners with transcendent would attempt to make contact with the dead in the wasteland and forest. Worldly people like us trespass in Disneyland-like man-made hell. It is absurd and ridiculous that the hellish scenes cannot stop us from perpetrating evil deeds, but the horrific and cruel scenes yet satisfy our self-righteous shame.
The pandemic has been boiling over for more than a year and a half. The number of infected patients worldwide is nearly a hundred and eighty million, and the death toll has risen to four million, which is equivalent to a war crisis. I hope that we can all be compassionate, give peace to the dead, treat all sentient beings well and equally. The hell is innately empty; however, deluded and misleading thoughts would give rise to all jealousy and hatred and then manifest the hell before us. This book merely serves as a memorandum of conscience for dictators of the world’s new cold war, supporters of unrestrained warfare, dark web hackers, and those who are cunning and contemptuous and maltreat others when knowing they have problems.
June 2021,
Yao Jui-chung
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【讚嘆地球自然風光系列--001】
告別地球 問候金星
地獄之門如此燦爛,衣索比亞 Erta Ale:爾塔阿雷火山
防疫在家之反正大家都很閒,於是開立了另一個「讚嘆地球自然風光系列」,想跟大家分享旅行過的148國家裡,那些自然風光景點,讓人置身其中會內心澎湃不已,然後嘴上會不自覺地一直說太美了?一個幫大家精選各國景點系列,畢竟版主是個超挑食愛翻白眼的歪嘴雞(Yes, I am)。
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爾塔阿雷火山被阿法爾人稱為「冒煙的山和通往地獄的入口」,山高613公尺,跟我家後山觀音山616公尺差不多,但人家是世界上僅存的六大熔岩湖泊之一,熔岩翻湧驚險異常,近距離觀看,如同在火災現場般,不只是熾熱,其不斷噴發出來的濃煙,令人無法久待,不時地蹲下呼吸新鮮空氣。
夜晚你會睡在火山口附近的石頭堆疊出來的假帳篷裡,伴隨著熔岩不斷噴發出的聲音入眠。
想來這裡,一定要參加當地行程(三或四天),當時線上網路行情是600美元,不過你旅行到當地去問,差不多在300美元。直接半價。
來到這裡確實有點辛苦,無法吃好住好,搭車都不舒服,但觀賞著火山岩漿那種緩緩的流動感,看似地獄般的景色,卻讓所有人留下猶如天堂般的回憶。
#這是我去過最熱的地方
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【麻糬朱古力曲奇 Mochi Chocolate Chip Cookies】
今次不是分享我自己的食譜,而是去跟着別人的影片嘗試複製美味的食物出來!
跟著Eat At Home (Karen)的麻糬曲奇食譜,發現原來看着別人的影片,然後跟着去製作食物出來是有另一番感受的~ 過程中原來會遇到很多的問題!的確蠻有趣!
This time I am not sharing my recipe, but following my friend's video and recipe to make the yummy and chewy mochi cookies!
Following the recipe of Karen (Eat At Home) is an interesting experience. Lots of questions and situations came up when I was making the cookies! It's fun to do video like this :)
食譜來源連結 Link to original recipe @EAT AT HOME 食・家 : https://youtu.be/tISoPykVxjM
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材料 Ingredients:
— 朱古力曲奇餅 Chocolate Chips Cookies—
無鹽牛油Unsalted Butter | 180 g
黃糖 Brown Sugar | 145 g
雞蛋 Eggs | 1.5 pc
雲呢拿精油 Vanilla Extract | 2 tsp
中筋麵粉 All-purpose Four | 180 g
可可粉 Cocoa Powder | 36 g
泡打粉 Baking Powder | 1/4 tsp
粟粉 Cornstarch | 3/4 tsp
朱古力碎 Chocolate Chip | 3 tbsp
— 鐵觀音麻糬 Iron Goddess Mochi —
糯米粉 Glutinous Rice Flour | 120 g
鐵觀音茶粉 Iron Goddess Tea Powder | 1-2 tbsp
砂糖 Sugar | 3 tbsp
水Water | 120 ml
鹽 Salt | 1/2 tsp
做法 Method:
1. 先把焗爐預熱至攝氏170度。首先,把放軟的牛油和黃糖用電動打蛋器或廚師機打起。
2. 逐少放入蛋液,一邊開機攪拌,再放入雲呢拿油拌勻。
3. 將中筋麵粉、可可粉、泡打粉和粟粉過隔篩,再加入鹽。分三至四會將乾材料倒入牛油蛋液中混合,直至放入所有乾材料為止。再加入一半份量的朱古力碎拌勻。
4. 把曲奇麵團分成30克一顆備用。放入雪櫃約20分鐘令它們略為挺身,方便操作。
5. 製作年糕。把糯米粉、砂糖、鐵觀音茶粉和水拌勻成為麵糰。放入掃了油的碗中,隔水以中大火蒸10分鐘。
6. 在砧板上塗油,戴上手套後,把蒸熟的年糕反覆搓捶,令其更彈牙。再用塗上油的刀把年糕切成10克一棵。
7. 拿起一顆曲奇麵團,輕輕按扁,放上一顆年糕後,包好搓圓,準備入爐。
8. 再焗盤上放上焗爐紙,把已包年糕的曲奇放上去,曲奇之間至少預留三吋空間。先焗8分鐘,再取出,然後在表面輕輕按入剩下的朱古力碎後,再焗8分鐘。完成!
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台灣人的奇怪迷信! | Weird Taiwanese Superstition! | Life in Taiwan #34
Hello everyone!! I am super excited to share my new video with you all! Today I talk about superstition in Taiwan! I recently watched a movie that included a ghost marriage! This made me interested in Taiwanese superstition. Let´s talk about it together!
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好久沒去台茂才發現B1開了茶湯會!
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