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《「拴馬索」——念珠之功德與作用之七 》
　
過去很長一段時間，一方面每天都會持咒做為定課，因此手持念珠幾乎已成為一種習慣，另一方面，由於使用的念珠種類繁多，故也因此進一步想要去探索數珠在佛教的世界裡，它所扮演的角色及重要性究竟為何？因此一路下來閱讀了和念珠相關的經文，其實資料算是指不勝數，在一些相關的經典中都有提及念珠，例如《曼殊室利咒藏中校量數珠功德經》、《蘇婆呼童子請問經》以及《陀羅尼集經數珠法相品》，可供參考的資料極多，才曉得從古至今可以用作念珠的品項原來是如此之多，例如經典中所談的草子珠、阿噓阿囉阿叉珠以及商佉珠⋯⋯等，在過去還真是極少聽到此類念珠的名稱，有從諸多經文內容中了解到數珠的不可思議功德。早先有位日本真言宗傳法阿闍梨和我私交頗佳，多次贈我東密諸要經論，尤其是《大日經》及《金剛頂瑜伽念珠經》，並且講述他此派所修一切法中之精要，後來在多次翻閱之後，發覺法寶迭現，例如經偈中有段說到，如果把念珠安置在腦袋上方的頂輪、手裡拿著持唸或者掛在手臂上⋯⋯是可以消除一切罪障，並且可以讓修行者迅速還淨等等不可言喻之功德。我記得當初老和尚在傳授我準提佛母修持儀軌時，其中就引用了《一字頂輪經》中所說的：「如果你要修法之前，可以先唸誦嗡讓m七聲加一句梭哈，如此三次，用來加持持誦咒語的念珠，因為此一加持，咒語一句變成千句。」
　
當時我還問老和尚，修持準提法有無講究所用念珠之材質？老和尚說：「如果根據《陀羅尼集經》其中所言，水晶念珠是最上等的⋯⋯」我當時見老和尚手上便有一串轉了三圈套在手腕上極莊嚴的水晶念珠。後來我日後自己再去讀閱經文中是有如此說到，持用香木所製之念珠，可得一分之福德，這是在《攝真實經》中所看到，這裡邊還有說明不一樣的念珠有不一樣的隨分功德，其中水晶珠所得便有一俱胝之功德，所謂一俱胝就是億萬遍之意。過去印度沒有像現在這麼發達，對於數字都有他各別的稱謂，但是因為修持準提咒也是屬於觀音法門，所以才會使用水晶念珠，老和尚因為修學過唐密和雜密，因此對於三部五部在修法上所必須使用的數珠也極為清楚，老和尚簡單地說過，有一部經叫做《蘇悉地羯囉經》，這裡面就有講求當在修持佛部的本尊時，所使用的念珠是用菩提子念珠，如果是修持蓮花部本尊時，就得使用蓮花子念珠，到了金剛部的時候，所使用的念珠稱為嚕梛囉叉子珠，這點和藏傳佛法也有異同之處，例如在藏傳佛教裡，修持一切的蓮花部和觀音法門時，一般都是使用水晶念珠。
　
也有一說，修持息災法可以使用水晶念珠，如果用來修持懷愛法及延壽法，這時就可以使用紅色材質的念珠，何謂懷愛法？和人際關係有關，例如當主管為了要攝受部屬或者使人心歸向，人際關係可以八面玲瓏，以及男女、婚姻、感情上和諧，此種法在過去古代幾乎都是君主或一方之士、統治者修持較多，尤其在蒙古歷代的君主都修持和薩迦派相關的紅色本尊為主的菩薩居多，因此在花教十三金法中向來不會隨意傳授。另外長壽佛也是會使用到如珊瑚念珠之類做為修持法器，藏人多使用紅骨髓念珠。一般而言，珊瑚念珠等級參差不齊，一串好的阿卡等級，有的目前已超過百萬元，所以只要屬於紅色的念珠，其實都可以用來使用修持懷愛和延壽法。比較有爭議的是屬於嘎巴拉做為念珠的材質，到了近期，多半都是獸骨替代，而非真正的人骨念珠，最好的人骨念珠一定要知其來源，過去藏人，好的修行瑜伽士甚至在往生前都會發願交代，把自己火化後，身上的骨頭要布施給哪一位修行人，這點在我大圓滿的上師身上，我便看過眉心骨以及脛骨所製成的念珠和岡林（骨號），一般好的修行人，業障輕者骨頭雪白如玉，極為漂亮，眉心骨念珠也是如此，腿骨所成的骨號通常是用來修施身法的法器，並非在流通處所看，好的腿骨比較少用銅或銀片再加以裝飾，通常內部都是有裂縫或色澤較暗沉之故。
　
人骨念珠在修持上是為了要修持誅法才必須使用，但修誅法必須有一定證量的瑜伽士，並且深具菩提心者，才能修此法，否則容易造殺業，就如同我的上師所說，修誅法者必須俱足殺活同時的功夫，才可為之，否則必下地獄，此點需要特別謹慎。我通常都會建議，無論是初學或者是老修行，其實只要一串鳳眼菩提子念珠，便俱足了修持息、增、懷、誅一切本尊諸法，但這幾年鳳眼菩提也被炒作到水漲船高，過去隨意在尼泊爾攤販上，幾百塊錢台幣就可以請購，但目前已是奇貨可居之價，尚一串難求⋯⋯。
　
我記得老和尚還曾經說過：「念珠其實也是各國佛教徒有染上不同的地區文化之產物。」老和尚講，過去曾去印度菩提迦耶朝聖時，就曾經還看到一些上了年紀的印度教行者，用瓔珞、花蔓纏掛在身上，這原本就是古代印度人的一種風俗，到了後來，印度人就延續此種佩掛在胸前的模式，用各式各樣不同的珠子串成珠幔，莊嚴其身。但是如果要按照南傳經典去尋找此類經文，卻極難獲得，在出家的比丘，行儀上出家眾所使用的莊嚴物品中，很少搜尋得到關於念珠的文字記載，可見應該是出自於比較晚期的經文中⋯⋯。
　
也有人曾經詢問過我，關於念珠上為何還有分為母珠和隔珠的差別，它的作用又是如何？母珠過去有人稱為達摩珠或者佛珠，隔珠是用來做為計數或間珠所用。在使用念珠時，到了母珠不可跨越而唸，此是因為母珠象徵三寶中之佛寶，因此為了表示恭敬，不宜跨越，應該從來時之處，再折返而修。（未完待續）
　
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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

藏曆九月適逢天降月也是報恩月，所有功德皆十億倍增長🙏🙏🙏~
農曆九月適逢初九重陽節，是敬老崇孝和祭祖的日子~
中華蓮花雨顯密佛學會特別於
2020年10月24日舉辦了長壽佛法會
可選擇參贊報名《煙供布施、螢火蟲護生》✨

長壽佛又名無量壽佛，
乃是法身阿彌陀佛以報佛身呈現的另一形象。
佛經中說：「持誦長壽佛心咒，能增長壽命、福德智慧，可避免夭折或意外身亡，消除一切罪業，往生西方極樂淨土。」
人身是無常的，出生於此世間當中，往生也是必然存在的。
修持長壽佛，現生可消除疾病、延長壽命，
善業善緣增長，惡業惡緣縮短，令世間法之事業長壽。
當我們往生的時候，對我們有利益的只有佛法。
命終亦可往生長壽佛淨土。
願以此功德，普及於一切。
眾生與我等，皆共成佛道🙏🙏🙏

🙏長壽佛心咒：Om ama rani jivente svaha
嗡‧啊瑪惹納‧則聞德意‧梭哈
長壽佛心咒不僅可以延伸眾生的壽命，
深信長壽佛心咒與長壽佛是無二無別的，
心咒所在之處即是長壽佛的智慧身所在之處。
勤修長壽佛心咒能延長壽命，增長福德智慧資糧。

本次法會內容：
🔸修法主尊：長壽佛
🔸主法上師: 堪布 曲尼敦多仁波切
🔸法會主修:長壽佛護生儀軌，山淨煙供儀軌
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🔸修法時間：2020年10月24日
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🙏【長壽佛法會】煙供祈福
藏曆九月適逢天降月，所有功德皆十億倍增長~
誠心煙供修持慈悲、布施、懺悔的功德，煙供是蓮師送給我們最簡便、最迅速的殊勝的方便法門。煙供是經由點燃如法製成的「福、財、緣、願」煙供粉，每一包煙供粉的供養都是無量的慈悲和功德！
誠心上供、菩薩歡喜下可迴向給歷代祖先及冤親債主，回向法界有情，增長福報資糧、滅除累世業障，達到圓滿祈願、歡喜自在的究竟快樂。
加持力殊勝無比，除了可以改變運氣，也能改變不好的習氣，去除障礙與煩惱！

🙏【長壽佛法會】螢火蟲護生
藏曆九月適逢天降月，所有功德皆十億倍增長~
護生功德:當眾生在受苦難，應興起護生的心，尊重生命如護己，保護、疼惜萬物之命，累積在世功德。
佛陀說「諸法中，菩提心為根本，而一切有漏善法中，無有能比護生之功德更大者。凡其它善業，若自心不凈，就無有功德，但護生時，無論其心凈或不凈，其事皆是直接對眾生有利」，因此有不可思議的善果，功德無法衡量。
護生為十善之首，希望大家的心中都存著分享生態之美的精神以及守護環境的行動力，一齊為環境盡份心力。

🙏【長壽佛法會】螢火蟲護生功德主
功德主結緣品【長壽寶瓶】
長壽佛（Amitayus），一頭二臂，身紅色，盤發成髻，戴五佛寶冠，
上穿天衣，下著綢裙，身佩珍寶瓔珞，具足一切報身佛的種種莊嚴，
雙手結定印於膝上，手上置長壽寶瓶，兩足以金剛雙跏趺安住於蓮花月輪上長壽佛，為息增懷誅四事業空行母圍繞，以勾召五大精華、壽命、福智等。

「長壽寶瓶」即為長壽佛之淨土壇城所在，故如法恭敬供養寶瓶，能消除供養者壽命上的一切障礙，舉凡外在違緣所引起的意外危險死亡傷害，邪道咒詛毒害等，都能獲得回遮；並能得到佛菩薩護法的護佑與殊勝延壽的加持。

「長壽寶瓶」 可供養於家中佛堂或佛堂，無佛堂者請供於高處乾淨之處，能獲得世間福壽加持與出世間解脫成就！

Om shrim hrim klim glaum gam ganapataye vara varada sarvajanamme
Ganesh 象頭財神咒 ~每天聽,跟著念,財源廣進,大發利市~

「嗡。嘎那巴底耶。梭哈。」
「嗡。嘎那巴底耶。梭哈。」
「嗡。嘎那巴底耶。梭哈。」

Ganesha象頭神
創始之王；障礙之王；賜福之神
也稱為：Ganapati
屬地：印度
象頭的象頭神可能是現代印度教萬神殿中最受歡迎的神靈；被數百萬尊敬。他也被佛教徒，耆那教徒和新異教徒援引。他對所有人都是仁慈和慷慨的。

創始之王，在創辦任何新企業之前，都要先尋求象頭神的祝福。
象頭神也是障礙之王，儘管有時也會引起憤怒，但有時只是為了吸引更多的崇敬，因此消除障礙但也創造了障礙。 Ganesha的另一面是，必須在新的冒險活動之前將他消氣，以免他在您的道路上放置障礙。

Ganesha向奉獻者們授予成功，勝利，繁榮，物質安慰，浪漫，愛情，更好的性愛以及超自然的力量和技能；但是，他也可以阻止所有這些事情，如果它受到侮辱和激怒，. Ganesha 是一種慷慨，富有同情心的人，很快就會給予幫助。 脾氣暴躁，但也很快冷靜下來，可以得到撫慰和安撫。 （但請記住一句古老的諺語：大象永遠不會忘記！）

• Ganesha 是印度教儀式中首先崇拜的神靈。

• 他是所有遊行隊伍中頭一個的形象。


•他是所有印度教儀式中必不可少的組成部分，除了喪禮。

歷史證據表明，象頭神早在公元前1200年就已為人所知。然而，在公元四世紀之前，倖存的描繪很少見。大約在公元五世紀左右，他才加入印度教萬神殿。
據信，Ganesha已開始化身，成為叢林部落尊敬的亞利安前大象精神。除了他的其他禮物外，他還被要求保護免受象群侵害。他被吸收到印度教萬神殿中，成為希瓦（Shiva）和帕爾瓦蒂（Parvati）的兒子。

• Ganesha 治愈身體，精神和情感方面的疾病。
• Ganesha 有能力從前世的業力中解放出來。
• 他會被孤兒召喚


象神（梵語：गणेश，音譯葛內舍；梵文拉丁轉寫：Gaṇeśa）印度教中的智慧之神，主神濕婆與雪山神女的兒子，戰爭之神室建陀的兄弟。由於象頭神負責統領眾伽那（gaṇa，一群侍奉濕婆的、喜歡搞怪的小神），因此他又名群主（gaṇapati，意即伽那之主）。他的外形為斷去一邊象牙的象頭人身並長著四隻手臂，體色或紅或黃，坐騎是他的老友、一隻狡獪的老鼠。在各種雕繪中，他一般是盤坐著或是翹起其中一邊的膝蓋。
對象頭神的崇拜非常廣泛，不侷限於原始的印度教與更早的婆羅門教；早期在佛陀時代，印度北方已經盛行原始密教，後原始佛教結合密教，出現最早的密宗，其中更演化出各大神祇的不同於當地教派思想、與修行之法，尤其在中原隋唐左右初期，印度高僧紛紛傳法向東遠播至中原隋唐朝，以及東瀛日本，向北則是由印度高僧有第二佛陀之稱的蓮華生大士傳播至西藏。
後中原密教經過滅佛行動，如今佛教中只剩西藏與日本仍保有像頭神的祭祀與修行之法，而中國各寺廟已不復見。
在早期印度密教，和在婆羅門教不同的是，以佛教"出離"與"解脫"為主要思想主軸，但卻有各種術法，其義旨在於幫助修行人"方便"修行。象神在大藏經"佛經密乘部"記載多處，其威能與術法不可思議，其旨，以方便法幫助修行者得其所需，印度密教翻譯的佛經其名號在中文翻譯為 "大聖歡喜天"是為善神。
其起因是在久遠前象神曾向"密教祖師金剛薩埵"與"觀音菩薩"投誠皈依，發誓護持密教行者。後更與十一面觀音化身結為夫妻；其本尊法門被密宗的祖師集結，由印度早期發展而成完整的系列(後佛與密教因教義高深，不被當世接受，消失於印度史)，由印度高僧傳至唐朝(唐密)再傳至東瀛(成為東密)。後來唐朝政治因素而滅佛，中國的密宗信仰湮滅，象神信仰亦然。
但從佛經佛典當中，仍然記載許多法門以及其思想，尤其是《金剛薩埵說頻那夜迦天成就儀軌經》或《大聖歡喜雙身大自在天毘那夜迦王歸依唸誦供養法》等等。可見當時的印度密教的象神和原始婆羅門教以及至今的印度教，象神的信仰已有差別。《天神乘與佛乘之別》
其身有單身(二臂、四臂甚至多臂)，在平常期多以財神(單身)之姿護佑眾生，若在密教圓滿次地上，則現雙身像以教化之(另一身是觀音)。
其本尊乃王者身、善神，經典更記載:象神源始自"大日如來"，經雲《此聖尊自在天。即摩訶毘廬遮那如來。為饒益無福眾生。權化示現此像》；亦提到，此神有善身與惡身之別(乃深秘義旨)，本尊王身是善神，其亦化身邪神(常隨魔、障礙魔)以及驕傲的天神之姿，常被密宗金剛神(金剛薩埵、觀音菩薩、大日如來的化身)踩在腳下，象徵征服自我邪念、魔難、障礙的意思。