20210914 黃偉民易經講堂
香港的盛筵已過,很多人魚貫離場。
但總要有人留下來,打掃收拾的。
人散後,一鉤新月天如水。
鄒幸彤留下來,告訴你,香港土生土長菁英的追求。
菁英的意義,不在於學歷,不在於收入,而在於他們的追求——
千錘萬鑿出深山,烈火焚燒若等閒,
粉身碎骨全不怕,要留清白在人間。
這些年,很多人都被林鄭搞糊塗了。
她愛標榜自己小學中學階段年年考第一。
香港大學畢業後又考上AO政務官,做高等華人。
她終日乾乾,每日工作十六小時,一星期工作七天。
她斷六親,和丈夫都少溝通。
她刻意告訴你,她不懂用八達通坐地鐵:她不知道7-11沒有廁紙賣……
這些都是你們的日常生活,她全不懂。她做的事更重要,她是菁英!
到鄒幸彤的新聞出現,我們才見識到什麼才是香港菁英。
她因支聯會副主席的身份被捕。
新聞界才開始注意到她的學歷背境。
她有沒有像林鄭一樣中小學年年考第一?不知道,她從沒有提及。
記者從舊剪報中,得知她的A-level成績,是全優5A,拿獎學金,入讀劍橋大學。
2008年因為汶川地震的義工工作,她看到人間的需要,她轉攻法律,做一個人權大律師。
她沒有將這些掛在嘴邊。
她背起支聯會的工作。
1989年,北京天安門的大屠殺,他們要拉他們自己的總書記、國家主席下台。不惜動用軍隊,血洗在天安門靜坐示威的學生。
整個香港沸騰,所有香港人都投入了這個時代的洪流。
但鄒幸彤當年只有四歲,今日為什麼要背負起這個沉重的歷史包袱?
我曾當面問過她這個問題,她淡淡的輕聲說:
總要有人做。沒有人接力,她便攞來做囉!
她輕描淡寫,沒有化解我的不安。
青山個個伸頭看,看我庵中喫苦茶。
佛教的本義是蓮花。
蓮花出於泥濘之中,但卻可以一塵不染。
佛教行人的修行在骯髒的淤泥,但他們的目標是蓮花。
淤泥,只是成就他們心中蓮花的養料。
愈是骯髒不潔的泥濘,愈能開出燦爛一塵不染的蓮花。
不在乎際遇的苦難,因為這些都是滋養你心中的白蓮花開。
這也是《周易》乾卦的總結論:
用九。見群龍無首,吉。
九,是陽爻。
乾卦六爻都是陽爻,都是九。
人間六個階段,六種際遇。
初九:潛龍勿用。懷才不遇。
九二:見龍在田。虎落平陽。
九三:終日乾乾。埋頭苦幹。
九四:或躍在淵。知所進退。
九五:飛龍在天。大權在握。
上九:亢龍有悔。眾叛親離。
六支陽爻,支支都是九。用九,用那支九?
乾卦的結論苦口婆心,教我們用九,不要為九所用。
際遇可以變,但你不能變。
際遇,是成就你的養料,用它,不要因際遇影響你的追求。
因為際遇是動態的,群龍無首。
無首,即是無尾。
無首無尾,即是一個圓圈,周而復始。
任何的處境,都可以成就你的追求,任何的處境,都可以幫你開出你心中的白蓮花。
方法是用坤卦的精神。
坤卦六爻皆陰,陰就是六。
坤卦的結論是:
用六,永貞吉。
用六,不要為六所用。
乾是天理,坤是人生。
人生要因應時勢,無論是那支爻,那個處境,用它,不要被它左右。
精神基礎是:永貞吉。
這個貞,是坤卦的大原則,牝馬之貞。
母馬永遠要跟著雄馬走,不能因形勢而超越。
乾為天,為馬。
我們在人間,要因應形勢,但大原則,是跟著天理走,不能超越天理,這樣便永貞吉。
跟天理,盡人事,無論那支爻,那個六,都永遠吉祥。
乾坤兩卦,教我們用九用六,就是這個意思。
任何處境,都可以用,都可以成就我們的理想。
儒家教我們頂天立地,做中流砥柱。
《論語》中,子路說:
君子之仕也,
行其義也。
道之不行,
已知之矣。
子路認為,在亂世中,很多人,潔身自愛,做隱士,忘記時代,忘記自己,把自己身心人格搞得很清高。但這樣做,將社會的責任,人倫的角色,搞亂了。
只計算自己一塵不染,對時代,對社會沒有盡責。
一個頂天立地的大丈夫,行其義也,見到要做的便做了。至於利害得失,理想能否實現,沒有計算,已知之矣,心裡有數的了。
與鄒幸彤有十幾次的碰面之緣。印象中,她都是低調沉默,坐在一旁不說話的。原來,此鳥不飛則已,一飛沖天;不鳴則已,一鳴驚人。
是一個有絕藝傍身的俠女!
杜甫有一首七言古詩,記述一位武功絕世的女劍客。
《觀公孫大娘弟子舞劍器行》
昔有佳人公孫氏,一舞劍器動四方。
觀者如山色沮喪,天地為之久低昂。
霍如羿射九日落,矯如羣帝驂龍翔。
來如雷霆收震怒,罷如江海凝清光。
絳脣珠袖兩寂寞,晚有弟子傳芬芳。
臨潁美人在白帝,妙舞此曲神揚揚。
與余問答既有以,感時撫事增惋傷。
先帝侍女八千人,公孫劍器初第一。
五十年間似反掌,風塵澒洞昏王室。
梨園弟子散如煙,女樂餘姿映寒日。
金粟堆南木已拱,瞿唐石城草蕭瑟。
玳筵急管曲復終,樂極哀來月東出。
老夫不知其所往,足繭荒山轉愁疾。
詩的開頭八句:
昔有佳人公孫氏,一舞劍器動四方。
觀者如山色沮喪,天地為之久低昂。
霍如羿射九日落,矯如羣帝驂龍翔。
來如雷霆收震怒,罷如江海凝清光。
從前有位女劍客,公孫大娘,她的劍法震驚天下。
睇過她出劍的,都神色驚訝;天地間都隨著她的劍氣而起伏低鳴。
跟著杜甫用神話來描述他當年所見的:
好似后羿射日,一招接一招,連綿不斷;又好似天神騎龍,在天際飛翔。
出劍時,勢如雷霆萬鈞,令人無法呼吸;收劍時,萬籟俱寂,像江海風平浪靜,水光清澈。
絳脣珠袖兩寂寞,晚有弟子傳芬芳。
臨潁美人在白帝,妙舞此曲神揚揚。
與餘問答既有以,感時撫事增惋傷。
但自從公孫死後,江湖寂寞了,再沒有見到這樣的高手。幸好,原來她晚年收了弟子,傳承她的絕藝。
今次在白帝城,重現公孫劍法。和她一席傾談,始知她劍法淵源。但這樣一來,又引起詩人杜甫的無限回憶了。
先帝侍女八千人,公孫劍器初第一。
五十年間似反掌,風塵澒洞昏王室。
梨園弟子散如煙,女樂餘姿映寒日。
由這位弟子李十二娘的劍法,勾起了杜甫初見公孫神劍的往事。當年仍是開元盛世,玄宗成立教坊和梨園,單是人數就有八千人,而公孫就是第一高手。
一場安史之乳,大唐由盛而衰,由開元轉天寶,也像詩人自己,由壯年已變衰弱,也像九七後的香港,繁華不再。
五十年如反掌便過,見過繁華,如今憑弔衰敗,多麼令人神傷。人才四散,往事如煙。
用師徒兩人舞劍,襯托人世盛衰,就像今日香港人憑弔往事,不勝滄桑。
金粟堆南木已拱,瞿唐石城草蕭瑟。
玳筵急管曲復終,樂極哀來月東出。
老夫不知其所往,足繭荒山轉愁疾。
全詩結尾,杜甫感慨的說,當年盛世時的皇帝,玄宗已經死了六年,在金粟山上的陵墓旁的樹,已雙手才能拱抱了。我這個玄宗時代的小吏,今日流落在蕭條的白帝城裡,唔知做乜!
今夕又一曲急管絃歌,但人散後,一鉤新月天如水,自己盛年年已過,世情又衰敗,四顧茫茫,行不知所往,止不知所居。雙腳生滿雞眼,本來就寸步難行,心情沉重,反覺得自己是否腳步太急呢!
香港無論在行政、立法、司法,都在急速衰敗之中。百多年多賴以生存和信任的法庭,都成為香港良心的奪命之所。
你和我都是杜甫,借鄒幸彤的一劍而神傷之中。
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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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《從微解封之亂談防疫長路》
~終結自私卸責和謊言
~回歸科學防疫、專業治理
如果不是實在太混亂,否則對於防疫和經濟之間必須妥協平衡,只能稍作放寬不能導致破口的微解封政策,全台灣民眾不僅理解,週五公布之前都還是引頸期待,不至於一夜炸鍋飆罵至此。
山洪爆發式的批評是中央自找的。因為解封、不解封的指引細節,完全看不出一致性邏輯。標準是什麼?依據在哪裡?全然摸不著頭緒。
如果擔心的是飛沫傳染,不開放游泳池、海濱戲水,不能唱KTV,連戶外三對三鬥牛都禁止,按理說,餐廳內用需要脫罩張嘴大啖這件事,密閉健身房裡大口吐氣汗濕口罩恐致失效的狀況,不更讓人光想都捏冷汗?!
如果認定只要拉出安全距離,管控好人流、落實梅花座,電影院、美術館、各式展場就可以開放活動,為什麼藝文表演不能在同樣標準下讓觀眾進場?願意配合措施的幼兒園、補教業不准適度恢復?連帶為難了只能繼續請無薪假,單靠萬元幼兒券又撐不下去的年輕爸媽。
如果規範的是群聚人數,室內限五人、打麻將不行,為什麼國內旅行團卻又開放九人成行?是郊遊遠足不搭車?車內不算室內?還是有首歌叫九條好漢在一班?
講邏輯,沒邏輯,論科學,沒科學,一堆自相矛盾扞格只求為政府減壓解怨的亂指引,搞得原本滿心期待微解封的百工百業,頭昏眼花幾近崩潰。
不甘續禁的,失望憤怒,列名微解的,一樣困惑不安。中央不負責任的解封,形同把防疫重擔直接丟給地方和民間,由他們一肩扛下,責任自負。無怪乎健身房業者大喊,說是有條件解封,根本就是叫我們不要開!部份餐飲業者和愈來愈多縣市長只好自己把關,擔心過早開放內用導致防疫破功,寧願自動放棄中央「美意」。
事實上,中央疫情指揮中心的決策失當、標準混亂,何止這次微解封。
正在進行中的疫苗施打政策,優先順序、風險分類、殘劑開放紛擾不斷;切香腸式的紓困方案,不知產業之苦勞工之痛,駡一聲動一下,永遠找不對該花錢的刀口;更不用說之前該超前沒超前、現在還在吃苦果的疫苗採購、快篩試劑、醫療檢疫量能等等防疫戰略的關鍵部署。哪一個不是在小圈圈的冷氣房裡、不透明的黑箱中,關了門自以為是的做決策?
這些決策品質絕大多數很糟糕。明顯意識形態、政治盤算有餘,尊重專業、依據科學、與時俱進的氣度、素養與能力,嚴重不足。然而讓中央大員們依舊自滿誇口上半場傲視全球、下半場補破網有成的,無非靠著割稻仔尾和內外宣作文章的兩項特異本事,把民眾高度自律自肅的努力成果攬為己功,再往自己臉上貼金、頭上戴冠,說一套歷久不衰強權欺壓下同島一命的「台灣故事」。
Taiwan can help,但原因不在大有為政府,是這個國家的人民夠優秀、很勤奮,各行各業各領域擁有精益求精的專業能力和實事求是的打拼精神。至於走到Taiwan need help,才是拜民進黨政府之賜,總拿中國打壓做藉口、本土政權當護身符,用老套老梗遮掩施政不專業、包裝傲慢沒作為,結果他的牛皮吹破,我們全民遭殃。
檢討眼前這次微解封的荒腔走板,和疫情以來政府所犯的錯誤,其實「系出同源」。都是在高度需要科學防疫的決策過程中,卻高度政治化;每項防疫措施當下的說詞,比方不戴口罩、沒買疫苗、拒做普篩,總在事後被發現另有故事隱情,謊話連篇。
所以我們必須問,台灣的防疫究竟誰在做決策?有哪些專家參與?專家意見備受尊重?還是僅供參考當裝飾?決策最後拍板的關鍵是科學實證?還是自由心證?決策者在乎的是人命安危?官員權威?政府顏面?還是更多的政治算計?
縱使逝者已矣,700多條人命葬送,絕對值得在這場與病毒的長期抗戰中,換得政府相對應的反省警惕。
理性紀律著稱的德國國會曾修法要求,所有政府防疫措施必須提供可供驗證的防疫理由;以打疫苗做為與病毒共存唯一手段的歐洲各國,紛委由專業的疫苗接種委員會全權規範安排疫苗相關事宜。
台灣到目前為止的每道防疫措施,講的出能攤在陽光下「可供檢驗的防疫理由」嗎?監督政府的國會應該提出修法,確保人民交到政府手中的防疫大權不被呼嚨、不被濫用!而非再任由執政黨立委用人頭優勢擋下調閱疫苗採購真相、增加紓困預算、公布3+11會議紀錄、審查國產疫苗全程開放等八案,這種執政黨利益優先於民眾利益,閹割國會、踐踏民意的事一再發生。這絕對需要人民的力量站出來,不氣餒地繼續監督。
疫苗才施打不久已引發各種混亂,未來陸續到貨經得起挑戰嗎?政府應即刻成立疫苗接種委員會,從施打順序、種類、什麼人什麼時候、該打幾劑、能否混打等等,全權交由專家安排部署、適時對外說明,建立一套清楚透明可依循的安心接種計劃!
民怨已讓綠色招牌斑駁落漆。民進黨必須終結機關算盡、自私自利的黑箱無良防疫,回到科學與慈悲的正道,專業治理的邏輯,才配當民主國家最起碼的執政者。
#朱槿花雖平凡,朝開暮謝,也拼一日的燦爛。但整株觀賞,此起彼落,生生不息,每一天,都有新生命,都可以是新開始。
俱往矣何足言道 在 飲食男女 Youtube 的最佳解答
一敲銅鑼,鼓鈸喧天,暮色沉沉的馬游塘村生猛了:金豬開陣,祝禱繚繞香燭,爐火熊熊蒸氣騰騰──村屋間空地搭竹棚張綵燈,筵開廿八席,熱辣辣葷素源源上桌來,觥籌交錯,賓主俱歡顏。
這是一場筵席包辦館「大來東南」主理的壽宴。食材爐灶、枱凳碗筷、侍應廚師統統到會來。從上世紀中葉起,大夥就像紅船戲班一樣鄉轉鄉,走過六七動盪、七八十年代經濟飛躍⋯⋯伙頭兵團今天髮稀了、背彎了,彈指間炒炸蒸燉,光芒依舊在。縱然行業日落江河,廉頗亦老矣,但這終究是他們的舞台,猶如大老倌踏出虎度門,必定傾力演出。
正月,是大來東南全年難得的忙碌時候,一個周日包辦了六七個筵席。人稱「倫叔」的老闆陳倫駐店調兵遣將:哪位師傅擅長哪些菜、走甚麼崗位、誰去煮日宴或晚宴甚至走兩場……他自詡為僱傭兵阿頭,「無僱傭兵,怎打成仗?我們有後生的,不是個個六十幾,八十幾也有,總之是耆英啦!耆英功夫夠,守門好,調味等等準確些。」倫叔八十歲了,依然精神矍鑠。
幾十年來他都行散工日薪制,有訂單就召集好兄弟埋班。這晚壽宴,他派出三個大師傅,四蒸兩炒六個爐頭,還有幫廚和雜工十三人。「我們包辦筵席,不可能跟酒樓一樣分工。」晚上十幾個樓面,日間已在油麻地店內劏魚剪蝦。
師傅也清晨六點多回店預備:需火候的燉湯、炸子雞上皮,以及每一個菜式的配搭得先做好。譬如「百寶鴨」,全鴨起骨,再釀入蓮子、銀杏、瑤柱、鹹蛋黃等超過八種材料,扣燜一小時,廿八席的鴨就花上好幾小時。筵席現場,師傅也「瓣瓣得」:砧板埋灶搬抬,隨時走位「執生」:上菜急起來也要掉下熱鑊去幫手排菜。「我們好似舊時打波,十上十落的陣形。」倫叔用荷蘭隊全能足球比喻。
包辦的承諾
藍田山上馬游塘村的壽宴,七點開席,午後雜工率先運來枱凳鋪設;師傅和食材工具在兩三點陸續抵達,起爐搭灶洗刷,肉食菜蔬調味料一一擺列開來。
五點多,鑼鼓響起,主家拜神;師傅開爐點火,首先熬煮糖水紅豆沙,而澆在大菜上的濃芡、炸油一一先推先熱待用;雜工披上白恤衫,變身侍應候命。準時七點,拜神金豬吃罷,冒着白煙好彩頭的「發財好市」啟動盛宴,主人賓客齊舉杯:「飲勝!」
大家酒酣耳熱之際,在爐邊起勁的師傅忽然停下來,翹首以待。原來主家要敬酒,樓面事前通報師傅歇一歇。「包辦筵席有一好處。酒樓一起菜就全部煮了出來。去到你府上就不是了:喂,師傅慢一點啦!遲幾個字再起菜啦!師傅就會停。」倫叔得意地說。
他強調,大夥臨時是主家的僕人,「也可以說是包辦的承諾,如果到時『我不喜歡做』,唔得!你幾大都做完那一晚。」像這天天氣不穩,主家搭的竹棚不能遮蓋廿八圍,要分頭二圍,大夥就分兩次煮食招呼,工時長了近一倍,酬金不變,也無怨言。
功夫,六十年前
這晚主家曾宏五兄弟為八十有一的母親擺壽。「我覺得在村搞到會很有氣氛。」曾宏說,原來四十多年前阿爺已跟東南結緣。跟冷餸翻熱的盆菜不同,筵席上每一道菜現煮現吃,那股熱辣辣給人驚喜連連:一條蒸魚上來,剛剛離骨,很嫩滑;熱炒燜煮,全是「小時候酒樓的味道」──沒複雜的化學調味,吃了不口渴。
賓主享用完鬆軟大壽包、濃甜紅豆沙,盡歡席散。師傅撤退,樓面收拾狼藉杯盤。時近午夜,大貨車盡吞爐具碗碟,消失於夜幕下;要不是賓主臉上的悅色酒氣,盛宴好像沒發生過。
倫叔說,筵席到會不是沒市場,飲食集團也設部門營辦,不過數獨立經營、既包辦「筵」(菜)又提供「席」(枱凳餐具)的筵席專家,九龍只怕剩下他這一家。而他,也入行超過半世紀了:1957年,十九歲的他由廣州來港做了一年錶行打雜,就投靠開包辦館的姑丈,從此走上包辦路。
「當時甚麼也不懂,何謂大雞三味?何謂四和菜三和菜?好烏龍。」知不足,學不倦。他晚上一有空就用舊報紙練字;看營業部怎樣寫菜單;入廚房偷師。後來他往外闖,包辦館、茶居,樓面廚房點心樣樣都做。「我們東南的事頭請人,席上揀菜薳,好挑剔,你不勤力不醒目他不睬你。」他先後入東南、大來兩間包辦館。兩店由甘日新和嚴志二人在1948年創立。1972年,兩位老闆退休打算結業,他於是和拍檔用盡十萬元積蓄頂手,把兩個字號合併成為「大來東南」。
筵有大小 無分階層
倫叔二十多歲就在包辦館當上大掌櫃。他回憶,行業在六七暴動前最興旺。大來經常到富貴人家的花園別墅做宴;主家一來喜歡包辦隨時候命,二來家宴私隱度高。那時,工廠在大時大節和廠慶也經常擺酒,「譬如唯一水壺廠、鄧芬記。有錢佬聚居的又一村、中半山、九龍塘,那時候很多……」倫叔不願提豪客名字叨光,只漏了嘴:「舊時總華探長是常客,現任不少高官警司也食過我們的餸菜。」
從前,包辦館街街也有,單是廟街已四五間,包括大來和東南。店本身也擺到三四圍,「那時無冷氣,太太們喜歡高髻頭,牛角扇吹到髻都歪了。」倫叔忍不住笑起來。六七年暴動後,有錢人紛紛離港暫避,兩店生意跌了八九成。及至七十年代,酒樓愈開愈多,「人家當然想嘆冷氣、更好的招呼和環境。」包辦筵席漸漸式微。
為了拓展生意,倫叔二十年前也做起盆菜來;沙士前甚至也做蛇宴。現在筵席和盆菜各佔一半。盆菜有幾百元一圍;筵席可達萬多元一席,但不多;千多元最平常。「貴婦狗生日請客仍然有;隱形富豪做生日、擺滿月,入伙一定要光顧我們啦!旺一下新屋。」他做得最多的是社團和大學千人宴。正月時,露宿者之家也訂了五席給附近油麻地、深水埗的街友。蒜香基圍蝦、菜膽百寶鴨、五柳炸石斑……他和師傅一視同仁用心炮製,佳餚趁熱派人連同摺枱碗筷用手推車送過去,服務周到無分階層。
老友一齊打天下
「我做了幾廿年,後生做到老了。」倫叔笑咪咪,總是腳踏白水鞋,手握一罐生力啤。接洽生意、買料、訂貨他一腳踢;廚房告急他就衝入廚房,樓面不行幫樓面。
「現在無人願意(接手)做這樣辛苦的事了。」大來東南到今天,打理人只剩他一個。人家退休坐公園,他很抗拒,有事做就開心,「回來認識多些朋友,老中青也認識一些,多好呀!同時跟社會不脫節。」
辦公枱上,毛筆墨盒放在手邊,他十年如一日為客人擬寫菜單。菜單值多少錢,他就買同等的貨給客人。「你不可以隨便一種貨給主人家,否則如何運作幾十年呀?蠔豉來說,客人需要大隻的金蠔或最大的沙井蠔,二百多元一斤,我需要買那些。小一點百多元甚至幾十元一斤,不同嘛!」
人隨行業走到日暮,倫叔一點不傷感。目睹同行一間間消失,唯獨大來東南撐了下來,他淡淡然說:「無人光顧,你就要結業。我們幸好有班老友記合作,圍威喂,打天下!」倫叔呷一口他形容為「生命之源」的啤酒,清涼、回甘。
舉重若輕 大師傅
謝龍師傅(67歲)
入行四十多年,去過上海、台灣做大廚。這日他中午和七十多歲的Man叔在上水煮了六圍,傍晚再來馬游塘村拍檔入行六十年的鄭成師傅炮製廿八席。一年之中,只年尾正月較忙,「如果靠包辦筵席搵食,真是無得食。」他在大來做散工三十多年,倫叔叫到,義不容辭。「當做義工舒筋活絡,是一種樂趣,大家老友傾吓偈開心點。」做廚師,謝師傅笑言:「客人讚好,證明自己煮得好。」
黃錫師傅(66歲)
曾在港島有名的包辦館歐燦記隨父做廚,二十多年前歐燦記結業,轉來大來。「上門到會好像酒樓,只是整個廚房搬過去,沒有搭棚的就在露天煮。」這天,他清晨六點多就返油麻地店鋪廚房張羅,蒸煮了七八成,現場來做兩三成。席散,其他師傅撤退了,他留下來搬搬抬抬,收拾物資上車,回店卸貨已過午夜。「做慣了, 沒甚麼問題。」錫師傅總是和顏悅色。
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亂世好修行。一條沙中線,搞到區區沉降,站站危機,象徵了九七後香港的現實處境。
大陸的文化在侵蝕,香港的核心價值在剝落。
欺上瞞下,層層呃呃騙騙,過到骨就係神仙,理得你將來死人冧樓。
由地盤工人,到監工主管,簽字工程師,到那批年薪千萬的高層,到問責局長,人人不負責任,唔關我事。
陳帆徹底揭開了董建華問責制的虛偽和有權無責。
作為負責運輸的問責局長,他說:
看新聞才知道這單事件;
他和公務員團隊的表現有目共睹;
他是否要問責?公道自在人心!
一貫的輕佻,毫不尊重自己。
這就是今日官場的行事風氣,這就是今日的香港。
骯髒的污泥,可以長出潔淨的蓮花,這是香港這個城市修行的好機遇,也是個人修行的好環境。
《周易》作為衰世之學,其中第五十二卦,艮為山卦,是教我們止欲修行的卦。
第五十一卦是震為雷,第五十二卦是艮為山。震為雷,艮為山,震代表腳,艮代表手;震為動,艮為止。行是震,止是艮。兩卦合起來,就是人生的行止。
震艮相綜,代表人生的行止關係。
時行則行,時止則止。時機成熟便行,時機不當便止。
行中有止,止中有行。行極則止,止極則行。
兩者既對立,又統一。
人,不能永遠的行,也並不可能永遠在止。這便是陰陽循環的道理。
行是陽,止是陰,行止永遠在交替運行。
《老子》說:致虛極,守靜篤,萬物並作,吾以觀復。
靜到極致,我便看到萬物的運作模式,是循環往復的。
第五十一卦的震為雷卦,本意是動,上下都是震,重雷疊至,一個又一個的雷響,象徵人生的打擊。一個接一個,永不休止。
生命既有嚇你一跳的打雷,就有五十二卦的艮為山的處理智慧。
上卦是艮,下卦也是艮,重山之象。古人見山即止,這個卦叫你停下腳步。
里仁篇說:以約失之者,鮮矣。
人生修養第一課,就是學習約束自己。懂得約束自己,在言行上犯上過失,是很少有的。
這個止,是教我們止欲修行。
人生的打擊,往往根源於我們與生俱來的欲念。
飲食男女,人之大欲存焉。人有無窮之欲,像孫悟空的如意金剛棒。這支可大可小,用的時候拿出來的東西,就是人類的煩惱根源。孫悟空就是用它來大鬧天宮。
天翻地覆,群仙束手無策,最後如來佛祖出手,這個手,就是艮卦,艮為手,為指。
如來將孫悟空壓在五指山,任他法力高強,就是跳不出佛祖的掌心。那便是艮,止欲修行的象。佛祖的手,五根手指,壓住悟空五百年。
艮卦的卦辭:
艮其背,不獲其身。行其庭,不見其人。無咎。
艮為止,卦名在這裡作動詞用。艮其背,在亂世修行,要止欲,將我們的欲念壓下去。
一切有情眾生的痛苦源頭,都是身體,要修行就得從身體開始修。
老子說:吾所以有大患者,為吾有身,及吾無身,吾有何患?
我們所有的煩惱,都是因為這個身體,這副臭皮囊,無論儒家道家佛家的修行,都是為了超脫肉身的障礙。人間的欲望無窮,要修到及吾無身,沒有肉身的包袱,吾有何患?那裡還有什麼煩惱呢?
這就是解脫禍源的概念。
艮其背,就是佛家修行的面壁。用背,對著滾滾紅塵中飲食男女,金錢權力的誘惑。
人開始修行,總因為定力不足,先要跟塵世隔離,到山上,艮為山,塵世人多煩惱多,在山上人少煩惱相對便少。所謂「艮其背」,就是從遠離誘惑開始。
「不獲其身」,好像連肉身都不見了。這是象徵性的說法,因為一切煩惱都是從肉身而來,一旦艮其背,通過面壁苦修,到肉身彷彿都不見了。小乘佛法修到最後就是這個境界。
金剛經說:無我相,先空掉自己開始,然後再進一步無人相;做到無我無人,時間空間都失去意義,無眾生相,無壽者相,進入永恆的空相了。
但這只是羅漢的境界,只不過是個自了漢,只是自渡,沒有渡人,小乘境界而已。
佛教追求的,是兼善天下,濟渡眾生,所以必須重返人間,照顧自己以外的眾生,這是菩薩的層次。
有了「艮其背,不獲其身」的基本功,走入人群,各行各業都是修行道場。
政客可以修,豬肉佬可以修,有錢佬可以修,乞兒可以修,動中修定,就是「行其庭,不見其人。」
走出門戶,接觸人群,不論在朝在野,都不見其人。芸芸眾生,不管男女老少,鰥寡孤獨廢疾者,無眾生相,都沒有差別。
離一切諸相,無一切諸相,故名諸佛。
這樣,結果就是無咎。
艮卦,止欲修行,就是追求無咎。不是吉凶悔吝,不是成敗得失。
無咎,就是沒有遺憾而已。
不要怨恨今日甩甩爛爛的香港,佛教的本義是蓮花,生長在最骯髒的污泥,修行就是在最髒的地方,開出最潔淨的蓮花。
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