關於 安井金比羅宮恐怖 ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

「台灣是可以追溯南島語言最古老的地點。幾千年前，這些語言由台灣傳到東南亞和太平洋島嶼。南島語族最早起源於台灣」

【回顧】
一「兩岸哪裡一家親！研究：台灣人基因與中國不同」
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1259641420842601&id=584986081641475

Jacky Cheng：台灣人，您對母親到底了解多少？？？

台灣文明，您知道台灣歷史四百年只是幼稚園程度，了解南島語族發源地是台灣,也只是小學程度而已，您懂得Paccan是原名，"您好"叫"台灣",四千年前遠洋Manga雙船體(與艋舺的台語同音，當然也與菲律賓的螃蟹船同音，但菲國學不到精髓，只能短航)，傳出去台灣文明玉石珠算，給南洋與中土....總算是有中學程度了，12000年前的姆大陸，亞特蘭提斯陸沉，蘇格拉底，柏拉圖，西方三哲的理想國烏托邦，不在大西洋，而在太平洋，才是台灣歷史的大學程度，宜蘭與那國島間的海底沉城，虎井嶼,台東數千年以上萬年遺址隱藏了多少考古密碼....台灣人，你真的知道嗎？

(全南島語族的眼睛，都與Mada同音，南島族有十大語系，西到非洲馬達加斯加，東到夏威夷，南到紐西蘭，智利復活島，北是台灣，也只有台灣唯一同時擁有九大語系，流傳出去。3500~5000年前的航行授與文明(中國四川三星碓的蝌蚪文，沒中國人知道來源真意，台灣古跡中處處可見，是傳播源頭),菲，馬，近年在3500前的古墓遺址挖出，全世界僅有台灣東部獨產的豐田玉器陪葬，很明顯了。)

(有人說所謂的海底古沈城其實是斷裂的岩脈，但是它工整畫一的牆體卻又讓人無法解釋；有人說那是1622年荷蘭人佔領虎井時修築的城堡，遭明軍炸毀沈入海底；有人說這乃史前文明的遺跡，人類活動的證據；更有日本學者說這是八千年前人類活動的遺跡。)

(台灣宜蘭外海60海浬處，沉睡著一座神秘的海底古城，古城內有精細的雕刻、神殿、金字塔，學者研究，該遺跡屬於距今約1萬5000年前的「姆文明」（MU文明），也就是在中國大陸還與琉球群島相連時，人類在這塊「姆大陸」上所創造的高度發展古文明。相關學說已流傳一段時間，因為實在太過引人入勝，每隔一段時間就在網路上激起討論。

中國網站《萬花鏡》日前刊登一篇名為〈因地震沉入深海：台灣宜蘭海底驚現神秘金字塔！〉的文章，吸引了許多兩岸網友關注。該文指出，在距離台灣宜蘭僅60海浬的日本與那國島海域，沉睡著許多當地漁民都知道的巨大海底古城，1986年後，日本學者開始對遺跡進行現代化的海底考古研究。

經過長達8年的考古調查，琉球大學木村政昭教授振奮地表示，「沖繩周邊海底考古學的研究，將會讓全世界最古老的文明重見天日，古老的『海底龍宮』傳說即暗示海底古文明的存在，沈沒在海底的『姆文明』也讓海底龍宮的故事一直流傳下來，我確信與那國的海底遺跡，就是1萬2千年前突然消失的『姆文明』！」

根據考古隊以電腦合成方式繪製的遺跡復原圖，該遺跡有著海龜壁畫、靈石、廣場等祟拜物，可以判斷就是古文明居民聚會的神廟，而神殿北面有2個半圓形的柱穴，可能就是女巫舉行儀式前的沐浴之處，也有可能是讓即將獻給神的處女清浴的水池。

還值得注意的是，在半圓洞穴東邊近處的靈石，其擺設的方式與沖繩及日本本島的民間信仰類似。此外，神殿東方的拱形城門、巨石疊成的城門等，也與1萬年後才興起的琉球王國建築類似。而在城門附近發現的2塊重疊巨石，有人推測這2塊巨石是城門下方的基石；由2塊巨石整齊重疊在一起，及其上方留有長方形人口雕孔等看來，該巨石顯然是經過人力加工而成為城堡的一部分。

這項新的發現，與20世紀初美國學者詹姆士‧柴吉沃德（James Churchward）提出的『姆文明』假說不謀而合。柴吉沃德認為，在距今1萬5000年前的史前時代，現為日本、琉球、台灣的西太平洋一帶，其實是一整塊相連的「姆大陸」，其面積比南美洲還大，史前人類甚至在其上創造了燦爛的古文明，但因為遭遇大地震所引起的地質變動，而在一夜之間沈入大海，一切記載就此失落，沈眠在太平洋海底，直到今天仍有待人們挖掘出它的真實面貌。)
https://www.facebook.com/100002974106319/posts/1528706937238428/

李致穎：談到女性或不同族群的刻板印象時，許多人都能理解這些特定形象，如女性的陰柔、感性、軟弱，南島語族的天性樂觀、愛喝酒愛唱歌等，對於弱勢性別或族群的主體性的剝奪，以及，成為他們追求自主性時的阻礙。
但是，上述的邏輯，對象ㄧ換作是「台灣人、台灣文化」就又不一樣了，各種刻板印象，例如隨性、草根性、海盜性格、髒亂、粗俗⋯等，全部照單全收，殊不知這些特定形象就是自己的主體性被襲奪、被架空後的殖民地文化，還把這些由殖民者所塑造出來的形象，當成自我認同。還有什麼比這樣的事情，更加悲哀的嗎？

#台灣文化應該要有各式各樣的面貌
#台灣人要打破殖民者的禁錮活出自我
https://www.facebook.com/1639848710/posts/10212110034219674/

李致穎：什麼是漢人？漢人是怎麼來的？
以「台灣南島語族」為例：

生番→熟番→人→漢人

未經由儒學「教化」的人，即為番或夷或蠻等，不文明、未開化之族群，必須透過儒家思想價值觀影響後、教育後，才能成為儒家價值觀下的「人或漢人」。

#台灣人正被教化為中華人
#已接近完成體
https://www.facebook.com/1639848710/posts/10207689328344790/

李致穎：把自己的認同，定義爲中國人，是個人自由的範圍。例如，我是泰雅族人，我也是中國人。

把自己所屬的族群認同，定義爲中國人，則不在個人自由的範圍。例如，我是泰雅族人，泰雅族是中國的少數民族。

*溫馨提醒：台灣的南島語族，無論在對岸中國或此岸中華民國政府的定義下，都是中國的少數民族喔。
https://www.facebook.com/1639848710/posts/10213131710200935/

임가영：如果我是台灣的電視編劇，
簡直有發揮不完的題材(翻白眼)。

超過400年前至四、五千年之間，
南島語族的先人從台灣出發，
順著洋流和季風開枝散葉到了整個大洋洲。
(這個梗被迪士尼用走了就是「海洋奇緣Moana」)

400年前熱情浪漫的大航海時代，
荷蘭人教了台灣人以羅馬拼音做為文字記錄，
引進了最早的銀行會計制度，
至今番仔薑(辣椒)、番仔火((辣椒)、紅毛土(水泥)、水牛、黃牛、芒果、雞蛋花、甘蔗、水稻…
通通都是荷蘭人曾經來過的痕跡。

400年前日本幕府時代，
將軍穿的盔甲也都是台灣出口的鹿皮製造而成的。

380年前和兩蔣一樣宿命的鄭成功父子，
假裝反清復明建立了東寧王國，
跟228一樣殺盡不服從的台灣人，
跟白色恐怖一樣洗腦倖存的台灣人，
先人為了生存通通當了假漢人，
從此全台灣每個村莊聚落居民沒有血緣關係的也都一個姓，
每個姓的族譜第一代都是同個時間，
如果追本溯源去到中國，
拍謝阿嬤袂認得阿松誰跟你一家人。

台灣人曾經有革命精神，
譬如300年前的鴨母王朱一貴或230年前的林爽文，
其中林爽文在他的全盛時期曾經控制全台，
為此，
乾隆皇帝的緋聞私生子福康安率領清軍渡海來台專門對付林爽文，
打贏了之後還列為乾隆得意的十全武功之一。

150年前，
Robert Swinhoe把福爾摩莎烏龍推向紐約和倫敦的茶館做為點單最貴的茶，
也將台灣特有種生物登錄到國際上的各個學術期刊，
光是他的足跡事跡就註定是史詩般的鉅作。

而你不能移開視線的是接近同一個時期的George Leslie Mackay，
他是「寧願燒盡，不願朽壞」的馬偕博士，
餐桌上每天見面的胡蘿蔔、白色花椰菜、和高麗沒有關係的高麗菜都是他引進台灣的。

馬偕博士辦學校開醫院都是後來的事了，
但你知道當他踏上台灣的土地第一步，
是誰接住他的手？

蘭大衛醫生！

我小時候看讀者文摘的一篇「切膚之愛」，
主人翁的蘭大衛醫生，
當今彰化基督教醫院的創辦人，
也是奉獻一生在台灣，
一家人在台灣的故事根本也是大河劇。

也是同個時期，
基隆外海發生了一場戰爭，
造成越南變成法國殖民地，
卻跟霧峰林家有很大關係。

迄今每年中元節，
基隆的法國公墓還有人以紅酒和法國麵包祭拜百多年前的法國軍人。

我累了先寫到這裡。

寫這種東西很難過，
我們從小去上學被當作白癡騙到大，
歷史課本內容扣掉謊言剩下標點符號，
只有頁數號碼是正確的，
卻還要透過不斷的考試強行刻在腦筋裡面，
所以書唸得越好，
被毒害就越深。

但人們必須知道這片土地發生過什麼事，
才會明白為什麼它是現在這個樣子。

台灣的電視台當然有能力提供具有深度又好看的戲劇，
譬如幾年前民視製播的「浪淘沙」，
講蔡阿信醫師的故事；
又如比較近的是台視曾播出「純純」，
講的是台灣歌謠之父鄧雨賢的故事。

可是婆婆媽媽有印象的是「龍飛鳳舞」、「飛龍在天」之類的長壽劇，
或是什麼都有神有鬼有怪害過來害過去的「戲說台灣」，
透過這些使觀眾對台灣的過去能夠有什麼瞭解？

這就是重點了，
掌握媒體的他們不要台灣人瞭解台灣，
愚蠢才好控制。

你羨慕日劇韓劇能夠考究的呈現他們自己先人的生活風貌之餘，
不要忘了他們擁有的是自己的國家。
https://www.facebook.com/100000420430480/posts/1642410355782963/

0728紐約時報

*【隨著感染率的上升，C.D.C.敦促接種疫苗的美國人再次戴上口罩】
衛生官員說，在病例數量不斷增加的社區，接種疫苗和未接種疫苗的人應該在公共區域重新戴上口罩。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/health/covid-cdc-masks-vaccines-delta-variant.html

*【拜登政府正在考慮強制聯邦工作人員接種疫苗或接受檢測】
拜登政府正在考慮要求所有聯邦雇員接種冠狀病毒疫苗，或者被迫接受定期檢測、社交距離、口罩要求以及對大多數旅行的限制，官員們星期二說，拜登總統的做法發生了巨大變化，反映出政府對這種傳染性很強的三角洲變種的蔓延越來越擔憂。拜登週二說，正在考慮為所有聯邦工作人員提供疫苗，但沒有提供細節。政府官員說，正在討論的這一想法與紐約市宣佈的一項計畫類似，該計畫要求紐約市30萬名拒絕接種疫苗的雇員中的任何一人每週接受一次檢測。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/politics/vaccine-mandate-federal-workers.html

*【Covid-19 更新】
#在疾病控制與預防中心敦促接種過疫苗的美國人，在病毒威脅下，恢復室內公共場所戴口罩的規定之後，民代、工會和州衛生官員的反應不一，有支持也有沮喪。
#拜登總統和政府高級官員免戴口罩的兩個多月後，白宮再次規定要戴上口罩。
#加州新的疫苗規定面臨著支持和阻力的雙重挑戰。面對激增的感染，加州本周成為第一個強制要求接種疫苗或對州僱員和醫護人員進行定期檢測的州。因其感染率急劇上升，主要是因為未接種疫苗的人，正在傳播具有高度傳染性的 Delta 變體。
#根據西班牙衛生部公佈的數據，經過緩慢啟動後，西班牙的疫苗接種計劃已加速到接近歐洲前列，其疫苗接種率略高於 55%。但西班牙也正在經歷非洲大陸新 Covid-19 病例激增最嚴重的情況之一，迫使其幾個地區重新實施夜間宵禁和其他限制措施。該國現在平均每天有超過 25,000 例新病例，比 6 月下旬增加了 6 倍。
#美國房東控訴稱，CDC禁止驅逐租客的規定，讓他們損失了270億美元，但現有救助計劃並未涵蓋。
#紐約中央公園為接種疫苗的人舉辦的音樂會將邀請來自音樂界各地的明星參加。
#紐約市市長白思豪宣佈，紐約市超過 300,000 名市政工作人員，必須接種冠狀病毒疫苗，或同意每週進行檢測，這對紐約市的許多市政工會來說，是一個令他們反彈的意外規定。
#華盛頓郵報將要求員工接種疫苗。
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

*【美國國防部長出訪東南亞，釋放信號對抗中國影響力】
通過重申華盛頓對該地區的關注，奧斯汀此行意在表明，儘管中國一直在積極向東南亞國家示好，美國仍對該地區有所投入。這是拜登1月就任總統以來首次有高級別內閣成員訪問東南亞。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/asia/austin-us-southeast-asia-diplomacy.html

*【斷聯近14月後，朝鮮與韓國重開軍事等外交熱線】
在朝鮮經濟危機不斷加深之際，該國表示，希望“儘早”改善關係。恢復熱線也標誌著朝韓關係的解凍。在金正恩與川普的外交破裂後，朝韓關係一度降溫。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/asia/north-korea-south-reopen-hotlines.html

*【香港國安法首案：騎車撞警男子“煽動分裂”罪成】
法院裁定抗議者唐英傑犯有恐怖活動和煽動分裂罪，這是國安法生效以來首次與之相關的審判。此案也標誌著香港傳統上的獨立司法體系將嚴格執行針對異議的新限制。
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20210727/hong-kong-trial-security-law/

*【Simone Biles因精神狀況出問題退賽】
美國體操名將Simone Biles昨日進行女團決賽時中途退賽，美國體操隊最終負於俄羅斯奧會代表隊，僅獲銀牌。Simone Biles在出戰首個項目跳馬時出現失誤，隨後退出比賽。她在賽後表示，自己因心理健康原因退賽。尚不清楚她是否仍會參加奧運會其他單項的比賽。
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/sports/gymnastics-olympics-results

*【中國奧運選手遭遇民族主義攻擊引爭議】
在中國民族主義情緒高漲之際，奧運首金得主楊倩等多名運動員，因社群媒體發言或現場穿著等問題遭遇攻擊。中國官員敦促將奧運與政治分開，但其自身做法有時卻恰恰相反。
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20210727/chinese-nationalists-are-targeting-their-own-athletes-on-social-media/

*【微信無預警停止新用戶註冊疑遭監管】
騰訊暫停新用戶註冊微信，引發資本對監管壓力擔憂儘管這家中國互聯網巨頭在聲明中表示，此舉是安全技術升級的一部分，“以符合相關法律法規”，暫停註冊的時機仍令投資者感到擔憂，騰訊股價週二暴跌9%。當前中國正在加強對科技行業的管控，上週六，騰訊音樂遭到反壟斷罰款。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/business/Tencent-WeChat-China.html

*【中國疑再建導彈發射井：核武擴張還是談判策略？】
分析人員最近幾周已發現兩處發射場，這被認為是中國核武庫的重大擴張。中國是否正放棄“最低核威懾“戰略並加入核軍備競賽？還是意在為未來的軍控談判準備更多籌碼？
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20210727/china-nuclear-weapons/

*【海外維吾爾活動人士稱其親屬在新疆遭當局報復】
自去年從日本回國後，年僅30歲的米日阿依•艾爾肯因“嚴重貧血造成的器官衰竭”在喀什死亡。家人和朋友說，因其叔叔在海外為穆斯林維權，她被中國政府列為目標。另一名活動人士的姐姐也被被政府以恐怖主義罪名判處20年監禁。隨著中國加大對新疆的鎮壓力度，越來越多的海外維吾爾人開始發聲，提供證據並促使外國採取制裁措施。現在，中國當局正在通過打擊他們的國內親屬進行反擊。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/asia/xinjiang-china-crackdown.html

*【“川普派他們來的”：四名員警就國會暴亂出庭作證】
在國會暴亂調查委員會舉行的首個聽證會上，他們講述了自己遭到攻擊的經歷。一名員警在懇求說“我有孩子”後，仍被打到失去意識。這些描述讓外界更加直觀地瞭解到1月6日發生了什麼。當天，川普支持者在其選舉舞弊說的敦促下，沖入國會大廈，擾亂選舉團投票進程。眾議院共和黨領袖反對這場調查，集體缺席聽證會。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/jan-6-inquiry.html

*【亞特蘭大水療店槍擊案嫌疑人認罪】
22歲的Robert Aaron Long承認在Cherokee郊區犯下四項謀殺罪，他將被判處四個無期徒刑，不得假釋，另加35年監禁。他在附近的富爾頓縣還面臨其他四項謀殺指控，當地檢察官正在尋求判他死刑。在Robert Aaron Long殺害的八名受害者中，有六名是亞裔女性。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/spa-shooting-robert-long-charges.html

*【德國工業爆炸，有毒氣帶來隱憂】
德國一家廢物處理廠爆炸，造成至少一人死亡、16人受傷、四人失蹤。火災發生在勒沃庫森一個工業垃圾處理廠，爆炸原因仍不清楚。聯邦政府迅速將這一情況宣佈為“極端威脅”，並警告當地居民避開該地區，待在室內，關閉門窗等。當局表示，正在評估從爆炸工廠湧出的煙霧的毒性，分析仍需數天時間。
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/europe/industrial-explosion-germany.html

「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