【出一趟遠門回來,就是該整理整理】
回家一段時間了。
原本得意洋洋自己從台灣回來,因為被歸類在「綠燈國家」,只要做一次PCR檢測就好,還可以不隔離直接開始正常生活,沒想到只是在荷蘭轉個機,在機場被「污染」了兩個小時,特權就直接消失。
PCR檢測變兩次。居家隔離十天。
嘖。
曬不到太陽真的讓時差變得很難調,在家隔離也有各種尷尬。清晨四點醒來卻得躺在床上不動,以免在客廳的毛孩聽到動靜開始喊叫,傑克跟蕃茄就不用睡了。於是精神正好的時間我卻得盯著天花板胡思亂想,等到八點真的可以起床時又累了,頭嗡嗡作響,電腦打開又關上。
放棄寫文。
頭腦昏沈,但是又不想浪費開學前兩週最後的空白時光,於是決定來「怦然」一下個人物品。
「怦然」是我自用的詞,從「令人怦然心動的整理魔法」那本書挪用來的。我很喜歡作者近藤小姐簡單又明確的整理原則:把同一類的東西都拿出來全部放在一起,然後一件一件拿起來感受,覺得有「怦然心動的感覺」的物品就留下,沒有的就淘汰。
不知不覺,我使用這個方法已經有十年了。原則上一年會「怦然」一次,但是蕃茄剛出生那一兩年稍有停滯,再來就是搬來英國之後受到疫情影響,整整兩年沒有「怦然」。
書上說,先從衣服類開始整理,之後才輪到書籍、資料,最後才是雜物。我一直都遵照著這個順序。但是這回,我剛好要開箱行李幫新東西找家,於是決定調整一下,從清理雜物開始。
床底下的箱子,兩個,拖拖拖出來倒在地板上。衣櫃上層的箱子,兩個,拖拖拖出來倒在地板上。書桌抽屜,四個,掏掏掏出來丟在地板上。床邊櫃抽屜,一個,掏掏掏出來丟在地板上。
沒幾分鐘,地毯中央就隆隆隆生出一座小山。
我倒吸一口氣,讓自己冷靜一下。這個「造山」的景象不管親眼見過幾次,都還是會有「居然又累積了這麼多亂七八糟的東西」的極大震撼。不過從另外一方面來講,也會生出一種莫名的輕鬆感,因為很明確地知道需要整理的東西就是這個份量,不會更多了。
我在小山旁放了一個紙箱,然後坐下來,動手「拆山」。
髮夾,髮圈,髮圈,護手霜,髮圈,護唇膏,髮圈,紅色0.5原子筆,黑色0.7原子筆,黑色0.5原子筆,B5筆記本,B5筆記本,A4筆記本,用一半的筆記本,全新的筆記本,護唇膏,髮圈,存摺,護照,會員卡,悠遊卡,髮圈,髮圈,鑰匙,小購物袋,名片,隱形眼鏡,資料夾⋯⋯
「大山」的高度一點一點的降低,有一部分進了紙箱裡,其餘的在周圍逐漸生成四座新的小山。一邊重複做著「拿起物品,感受」的動作,我閒不下來的腦袋又開始轉動起來。
其實,整理個人物品的過程,會被迫看見不想面對的自己。那些面向的自己,透過一個一個的「物證」,被確確實實地呈現在眼前。
白癡喔就已經有釘書機了還買。這枝筆當初花了這麼錢多買,還跟傑克保證一定會天天用,結果咧?只有兩隻手是幹嘛需要這麼多筆記本?別再辦會員卡了你根本都不記得有他們的會員,去了也都忘記帶卡。七張?拜託你下次回台灣務必記得帶悠遊卡!不要再買布衛生棉了你懶得要死圖案再可愛再環保再舒服你都不會用啦!
浪費、不切實際、虛榮、健忘、毫無規劃、自以為是⋯⋯每一個被「錯買」的物品都是我「有這麼多缺點」的證明,要這樣一樣一樣親手碰過,等於直接承認自己犯下的「過錯」,真的是千刀萬剮的酷刑。但是經歷過第一次,那種羞愧到一直捏自己身上各處皮膚轉移注意力的崩潰感之後,在整理完成的瞬間有種「誒?結束了,就這樣嗎?」的解脫感。同時也發現,那些所謂的「罪證」也不是真的多可怕的妖魔鬼怪,就只是各種當下的思慮不周造成的結果,看清楚之後反而比較了解自己的消費習慣。
確實不舒服,但是沒有想像中可怕,沒有想像中難,而且我挺過去了。驚奇之餘還帶有一點點得意,覺得像是完成了什麼了不起的事。再加上房間變得好清爽,好舒服,真的覺得好開心。
這樣一想,「整裡自己的過去」真的是一個很類似的經驗。
在我還不敢回頭去探索自己的成長過程的時候,我雖然記得一些重要的事件,但是從來沒有打算要去回想究竟發生什麼事。我堅信那些事件裡一定藏著我被人討厭的秘密,如果我去深究,就會清楚聽見大家不敢直接告訴我的各種批評:驕傲、自以為是、長得醜、沒教養、身體很臭、懶惰、姿勢不雅、三八、不檢點、不懂事、自私、笨拙、沒品味⋯⋯
只要我不去挖掘,我就可以裝作不知道,還可以傻傻地活著。如果我跑去看清楚,就會證實這些批評都是真的,那我就只能承認我活該,所有發生在我身上的一切都是我自找的。我活該大人不喜歡我、我活該被霸凌、我活該被打、我活該沒有朋友、我活該覺得寂寞,因為我全身上下沒有一處優點。
但是跨出第一次,打開第一扇通往過去的門,把裡面的垃圾都掏出來之後,我發現,那些發生在我身上的事情,並不是因為我是一個很糟糕的人,所以其他人特地施加給我的懲罰,只是一堆雜物糾纏在一起的結果。
例如,在我開心跟家長報告在學校發生的大小事的時候,被惡狠狠地打斷:「我最討驗聒噪的小孩,你去學校到底有沒有好好在讀書?」這當中我的喋喋不休很可能只佔了一小部分。讓大人真正決定用那句話回應的理由,很可能是他有其他正在心煩的事。也許是今天突然聽到同事的小孩成績優異,覺得自己的小孩沒什麼能拿出來說嘴很丟臉。也許是工作一天覺得很煩,根本沒心思聽這些無聊的小事。也許剛發現錢包不見了正在焦慮,小孩還跑來亂⋯⋯
就像在「怦然」我的雜物一樣,把一個事件啪啪啪地從房間掏出來,攤在地板上,然後把屬於我的部分拾起來,把不屬於我的部分分類出去。然後,這個房間就會變得清爽,可接近,不再是一個鬧鬼或者生蟑螂的可怕角落了。
這次回台灣,因為知道自己時間有限,所以我到處找人深談,幾乎每天都有一場超過五小時的對話,等於我砰砰砰砰砰在兩個星期的時間內,一股腦把心裡所有沒開過的房間都解鎖,把所有陳年的灰塵、雜物、爛掉的腐朽掉的發臭掉的東西都打開來巡過一次。
恐怖死了。
但是,也讓我發現了非常珍貴的東西。
在我霹靂啪啦一股腦把在親戚叔叔家發生的事情全部吐給諮商師之後,他搔搔腦袋,在紙上胡亂畫了一陣之後,說:
「感覺,這是家族性的耶。你親戚叔叔,你,你的孩子——
「還有親戚叔叔的孩子!」
「對,每一家的每一代都有一個不受控的靈魂啊。這讓我很好奇是從上面的誰承接下來的。」
「再上去我就不太熟了,但是我可以去問出來。」
突然,他把手上的紙筆都放下來,正面對著螢幕:「欸,我覺得你真的有機會終止這個循環耶。」
啊啊。
終於,要開始「怦然」我的人生了嗎?
我坐在山一般高,黑壓壓一片,分不清到底有多少人事物,多少歷史和時代的災難糾結在一起的「過去」面前,覺得時候到了。
沒有任何事情是偶然發生的。發現高敏感特質,開始寫這個粉專,在課堂上發現「家族詛咒」的理論,發現自己的「家族詛咒」,決定轉讀博班,遇見「創傷的智慧」,回去台灣把所有的門都打開⋯⋯。
九月份,隨著新學期開始,旅途的下一站會是哪裡?會發現什麼新的東西?會寫出什麼樣的新文章呢?
稍安勿躁,一步一步來吧。
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八尺大人是一種都市傳說中的現代妖怪。
她的身高足足有八尺,換算成公分為單位,差不多是240公分左右,是巨大的女性妖怪,會讓人產生莫名的壓迫感,據說她專找小孩下手,恐怖度絕不輸給裂嘴女。
一般人可能認為不可能有這麼高的女性,不過翻開金氏世界紀錄,歷來身高超過240公分的女性竟然有四位,其中位居第一的是荷蘭的Trijntje Keever她身高254公分,是有史以來最高的女性,可惜因為得了癌症,只活到十七歲便離開人世間,至今荷蘭還留有她穿過的大尺碼鞋子供人瞻仰。
中國最高的女性曾金蓮,她的身高是248公分,死於腦垂體瘤出血,死的時候年僅十八歲。這二位女性都是名符其實的八尺大人,但年紀輕輕就死去,原因是人體的身高和骨骼是有相對的限制,太過於高大的人類,多半跟生長激素混亂有關,身體承受不住身高和重量的負荷,生活比一般人要困難許多,更別說要去傷害其他人。
按理來說,日本並沒有身高如此高大的女性,那麼八尺大人是怎麼出現的,這就要從日本鄉民論壇2ch超自然版說起,二○○八年八月二十六日有人發文開始述說小時候在村莊裡遇到八尺大人的經歷故事,後來大家覺得這故事有意思,就開始添加更多的細節,比較像是鄉民們集體創作的產物。
繪聲繪影的描述,讓八尺大人更富於神秘性,大家都想知道這個被村莊封印的妖怪,究竟會在什麼樣的情況下出沒,人們對於來歷不明的妖怪,總是懷著獵奇的心理,又帶著恐懼的心情,而且每位目擊者所看見的八尺大人,樣貌和年紀甚至衣著都不一樣,有的人說是穿著喪服的年輕女子,有的人說是穿著和服的老婆婆,也有人說是穿著工作服的中年女性,日本東北地方有許多網友聲稱他們親眼目睹八尺大人現身,更增添了話題的熱點。
在鄉民論壇上的原PO回憶,他在高中放春假的時候,回到鄉下的爺爺家,經常聽見奇怪的「啵—啵—啵—」聲響,接著發現牆上有人在偷窺他,是身穿白色連身洋裝頭戴帽子的一名女性,而且那道牆有二公尺高,也就是說那女人身高絕對超過二公尺。
他把自己看到的情況描述給爺爺聽,結果爺爺和奶奶臉色大變,應該被地藏王菩薩封印的八尺大人怎麼會出現在自家附近,為了安全起見,他們決意要想盡辦法保護原PO,不讓八尺大人再次靠近。
據說,一旦被八尺大人迷惑,數日之內她一定會取走這個人的性命,她迷惑的對象以未成年的青少年及孩童為主要目標,似乎對成年男性沒什麼興趣。雖然每個人看見的八尺大人樣貌都不盡相同,但唯一的共通點就是身高非常高大,異於常人,會發出怪異的笑聲,就是那個「啵—啵—啵—」的聲響。
既然說她是被村民封印的妖怪,那麼肯定八尺大人和這個村莊有些什麼淵源吧,當原PO想要追根究柢的問下去時,爺爺總算鬆口說出實情,原來這個村莊和隔壁的村莊有過協議,像是優先使用水資源之類的,因為八尺大人每隔十多年就會出現在村莊為害,所以村莊的四個方位都設有地藏王菩薩的廟,用來限制住八尺大人的行動,只要這些廟發揮作用,八尺大人就會不斷地迷路,無法離開村莊的範圍,也就走不出村子到別處為害了。
<順利躲過八尺大人迷惑的方法>
最恐怖的地方莫過於爺爺交代原PO如何躲過八尺大人迷惑的方法,他被帶到二樓的房間,身上有奶奶給他的護身符,所有的玻璃窗都貼上了報紙覆蓋住,報紙上還貼有驅鬼的符咒,房間的四個角落撒上大把的鹽巴,在日本鹽巴具有驅邪除魔的作用,還在一個木箱子上放了一尊佛像,可以被視作臨時的祭壇吧,因為一時之間找不到適合的,所以也就先湊合著用。
爺爺千叮嚀萬交代,千萬不要別任何人搭話,因為半夜裡爺爺和奶奶都不會再走進這個房間,所以遇到有人說話,絕對不要回應對方,那肯定是八尺大人的迷惑手段,萬一發生了什麼事就朝著佛像祈禱,而且護身符絕對不可以離開身邊,否則的話,後果不堪設想。
果然到了半夜,一切都靜悄悄的,但有人好像用指甲敲著窗戶,並且用爺爺的聲音叫原PO靠近窗戶這邊,叫他不要怕,並且放鬆他的警戒,原PO想起爺爺的話,忍住不發出任何聲音,並且走到佛像前大聲的祈禱,總算撐過了漫長的夜晚,不過原先撒在房間四個角落的鹽巴到了早上仔細一瞧,全部變成了黑色,事不宜遲,爺爺和趕過來的爸爸連忙把原PO叫到一樓並將他帶上車。
那是一輛九人座的休旅車,車內全是身穿黑衣的男性,原PO則是被包圍在中間,車上還有一名K婆婆坐在副駕駛座上,她負責念誦祈禱文,並且照看整個護送的過程,簡單來說就是以包圍的陣列逃過八尺大人的監視,把原PO安全地護送到村外,再由爸爸駕駛的車輛把他順利送走。
在車輛進行當中,原PO有瞄到八尺大人緊跟著休旅車行進,K婆婆警告說,千萬不可以張開眼睛看八尺大人,你會被迷惑的,要閉上雙眼,緊握著她給的符咒,等到再也聽不見八尺大人發出的聲音,車子也順利開出村外,就是安全躲過八尺大人的監視,性命也總算保住了。
在整個逃脫的過程當中,真是有驚無險,原PO依照指示平安地逃過一劫,坐上爸爸的車返回自己的家,並且被告知以後再也不能去爺爺家了,因為太危險,家人很擔心他萬一有個三長兩短,從此以後,他就沒有再遇到八尺大人,就連爺爺的喪禮也無法參加,或許是他感到人生相當遺憾的事。
八尺大人的形象,對我而言不是那麼地清晰,不過伊藤潤二漫畫中的恐怖女模特兒,身材也是十分高大,長著極為恐怖的臉孔,也成為西方恐怖電影的靈感素材,還有溫子仁執導的恐怖電影出現的鬼修女形象,或許更接近我心目中的八尺大人,更為駭怖嚇人,晚上會做惡夢的那種。
人們對於身材高大的形象,會有生理上的恐懼是必然的,西方都市傳說中的森林暗鬼(瘦長身影Slender Man)或是巨型怪物警笛頭(Siren Head)也和八尺大人有異曲同工之妙,在這種身體變異所造成的恐怖感,東西方好像沒有太大的差異,這些心理層面很值得繼續深入研究。
關於八尺大人的後日談,差不多過了十年吧,鄉下的奶奶突然來電,說是和老家前面道路相接的地藏王菩薩被毀壞了。言下之意,八尺大人可能從村子裡逃脫,要男主角留意自身的安全,電話才掛斷,就聽見不遠處傳來八尺大人熟悉的笑聲「啵—啵—啵—」,故事就到這裡結束。
<補充一下民俗學的觀點>
在日本妖怪民俗學者柳田國男的著作《山的人生》有記載著在熊野山中有人發現身長八尺的女性遺體,她的容貌有如下的描述,頭髮長到腳的部位,嘴巴咧開至耳下,眼睛也比一般人大很多,在這本書裡面也記載了很多類似山男、山女的妖怪,當地人相信如果遇到山男會被捉起來殺掉,遇到山女則會生莫名的怪病,如果山女對你笑,你也用笑聲回應對方,就會莫名其妙死去。
在中國大陸的神農架地區一直有著野人的傳說,也是身高特別的高大,生長在原始森林,渾身毛髮披覆,會狩獵野生動物為食,如果遇到了人類自然也不會放過,曾有人類被野人活捉吞食的傳言,因為是野人,所以不會使用人類的正常語言。但八尺大人的長相,似乎混合了優雅的高大女性和野人般的嗅覺與行動力,可以說是相當具有特色的存在感,而且八尺大人並不是在山野裡行動,而是在人類居住的村落徘徊現身,似乎又比山女更積極一些。
無論如何,雖然八尺大人綜合了許多令人畏怖的女性妖怪特徵,但從鄉民們的描寫細節裡,可以看到七夜怪談的貞子出現以來,所謂新都市傳說女性妖怪的一種承襲的特質,長髮、白衣、指爪、裂嘴,彷彿另一種貞子的巨大化發展,總的來說,八尺大人普遍被視為是創作型妖怪的可能性比較高。
此外,八尺大人也反映出男性社會集體意識的某種焦慮不安,這種類似「恐女症」心理狀態會不會其實是害怕與女性接觸所造成的精神投射呢?或許可以看成是因為「社交恐懼」在內心深處將女性賦予「怪物化」的想像,從這個觀點來看似乎挺有意思。
文字 / 銀色快手(Silverquick) 怪談師、偽民俗學者
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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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