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【做愛做的事】長文慎入

由少到大，傭仔都在很嚴肅的環境中長大。小時候家裡很嚴，媽媽對學業成績要求很高，傭每天都在上補習班，周末上興趣班；學過游泳，上了十二堂至今仍是不暗水性；學過鋼琴，覺得太悶而中途放棄了；學過中國舞，記得那時上堂不斷模仿「上山採花」的動作，覺得難頂而中途退出了（唔好問我點解男人老狗要跳中國舞）。

後來，又去了一間校風很嚴的中學。母校是一間很傳統的基督教英中，每個星期有兩天為英語日，同學會用英文互相溝通。有時候，班裡會搞祈禱會，大家圍圈分享生活的甜和酸，然後互相祈禱，有時甚至有同學會分享到流淚。

到了會考，當時升讀原校的基本分數是十四分，傭雖然拿了二十分，但因為會考時選修了視覺藝術，局限了預科能夠選修的科目，所以落入了後備名單。最後僥倖升讀了中六，但讀的並不是自己喜歡的科；更甚的是，升中六的同學差不多全都是來自以前的「精英班」，會考平均分是廿一分。所以，我一直都覺得自己是below average。

高考那兩年，是傭最勤力的兩年。除了來自身邊同學的壓力，學校在學期開始辦了個「生涯規劃講座」，除了告訴你什麼性格適合做什麼工作，還會羅列一堆大學的入學數據，例如想讀什麼什麼科，你就要拿幾多幾多條Asss等的等……

記得那兩年，每天上學就是不停的quiz和exam，其餘時候就是做past paper，放學除了做功課，還是上一堆補習班，最印象深刻還是代現教育教geography那對哨牙夫妻，彷彿我的高考充斥最多的就是她的哨牙。

在香港，由你出生那天開始，彷彿就有人指示你的人生要怎樣走，他們會不斷為你安排你要走的道路。就算沒有，你身邊的人所做的事也像告訴你「應該」要做的事，那種群眾壓力令你不敢有自己的想法，走自己想走的路、做自己想做的事。

那年做pastpaper做到快要發瘋的時候，我在想：我還要被人牽著鼻子走到幾時？到何時我才能為自己的人生做決定、真真正正走自己的路、做自己想做的事？最後，兩年硬著頭皮度過了，雖然傭在高考拿了一個可以入讀某些「神科」的成績，也不顧一切地選讀了設計系。

讀大學那三年是令我最眼界大開的三年。首先，同學再不是書呆子；每個都十分有性格，感覺他們很有學識、很有內涵、也很搞笑，會通頂完在studio瘋命狂奔玩runningman。另外，讀書再不用背model answers，所有人的作品會貼在牆上，被很mean的tutors逐一criticize，過程緊張又刺激，然後有容易受傷的女同學會哭哭……

最令人最深刻的是，year 2那年去了做外國和上海廣告公司的internship（去上海時第一次乘搭茄子航空！）。那時才發現，世界是那麼大，生活可以如此多樣，我也驚覺自己是多麼的井底之蛙。

當整個社會正在告訴你「路只有一條」：出世，入名校，然後出來找份工作，最好是律師、醫生，然後買樓、結婚、生仔、抱孫、死去……就算不能做到那麼top，也應該搵份政府工，穩穩定定。雖然你可能會有很可觀的收入，但，這是你期望的人生嗎？每天是你想過的生活嗎？

一年多前，我又放棄了為我帶來可觀收入的freelance design jobs，去了當一名「空中飛傭」。不要以為空姐空少到處飛，只是一份周圍玩的工，毫無挑戰性可言。除了日夜顛倒的生活，你還要飛凌晏4點要起床的早機；當別人在睡覺時，你要飛早上10點才收工、凌晨在機上走來走去、體力勞動的red-eye機；為了那有數得計的當時layover時間，有所謂的3 sector pattern，當你累到要命的時候，你還要在狹窄的機艙裡，一天內做三程機，笑著面對200幾個乘客不同的要求，然後放工後拖著經已散哂的身軀回到酒店。

雖然這樣，但一切也是相當值得，因為這是我自己選擇了的路，不再是別人為我選的，就算辛苦也是值得。屬於自己的人生，應該不需要跟別人交代吧？

我很喜歡，當我為你簡單的倒了一杯水，你簡單地的對我說一聲「謝謝」。
我很喜歡，昨天看完日本人的傳統，今天可以看到澳洲人的熱情。
我很喜歡，返工不是對住四面牆的辦公室，而是一片廣闊無邊的天空。

不知什麼時候開始，我已決定了不按常規走了。我手上，沒有地圖，沒有行程、也沒有計劃。我會繼續，按著心中的熱情去走，去到世界不同的地方，看不同的美麗事物。因為我覺得，假若明天你要離開世界了，重要的不是你賺了幾多錢，你的facebook page賣了幾多廣告（所以我沒有接任何廣告）；最重要的是，經歷，和曾經在你身邊跟你互動的人。

因為「做愛做的事」，傭仔將會出書了，你會支持他嗎？

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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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１．プラバンの裏を400番のヤスリ（ダイソー）でくるくると全面ヤスル。
２．全体が白くなったらウエットティッシュなどでゴミを落とす。
３．プラバンが乾いたら、ヤスリをかけた面に鉛筆で型紙を写し取る。
４．色鉛筆で着色する。
５．ハサミで枠のほんの少し内側を切る。
６．2分ほど予熱したオーブントースターで焼く。オーブンシートにのせ、オーブントースターに入れると数秒で縮んでくるので目を離さないこと。（クッキングシート使用上の注意 https://www.lion.co.jp/ja/products/246 ）縮むのが止まったら一呼吸おいてオーブンシートごと取り出す。今回、縦長のデザインなので焼いている途中でひっくり返しになることが多かった。着色面（裏）を上にして焼き、ひっくり返って最終的に着色してない面（表）が上になるようにしました。10センチ以上の大きさのプラバンを焼くのは難しいようです。
７．熱に強い、固く平らな物の上に置き、金属のバットなどでプレスする。熱いので気をつけて！
８．冷めたら、色落ちを防ぐために水性トップコートスプレー（Mr.hobbyの つや消し）を裏面（色鉛筆面）にスプレーする。
９．1.5ミリのハンドドリル（キャンドゥ）やピンバイスで穴を空ける。
１０．手芸店（ユザワヤ）で買ったイヤリングパーツとプラバンを9ピンで繋ぎました。ラジオペンチや指かん（ダイソー）も100円ショップで買うことができます。
１１．でけた。

作る前にやっておくこと
１．プラバン（キャンドゥ）は５センチ四方に切り、板の方向を書き込んで試し焼きをする。板によって縦横の縮み方、反り方が異なるので、その板の性格を知っておくと便利です。
２．プラバンの縦横の方向と表裏が、わかるようにマスキングテープなどで印を付ける。
３．プラバンを切る。いくつか作る場合はデザインの縦横を同じ方向にする。プラバンの縮み方が揃ってきれいに仕上がる。

We never thought that the animated series "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" would be so addictive!
The decisive moment was in episode 19, "Hinokami", the animation with "The song of Tanjiro Kamado" in the background!
Nezuko's " Blood Art - Exploding Blood" was a climax was worthy of being the final episode.

The earrings Tanjiro inherited from his father, saying, "Please let them pass on interrupted" with him replying "I promise." We audaciously tried to make them ourselves!

"I will let nobody break the bond between Nezuko and I!"

*Recipe*

1. File down around the back of the plastic base with a number 400 file (sold at Daiso).
2. Use a wet tissue to remove dirt etc. when the plastic base becomes white.
4. When the plastic base has dried, use a pencil to trace onto pattern paper the face that was filed down.
5. Use scissors to cut a little into the frame.
6. Bake for about two minutes in a pre-heated oven toaster. Place on an oven sheet and do not let out of your sight as it will start to shrink in a few seconds. Once it stops shrinking, take one breath and remove from the oven, oven sheet and all. This time since the design was lengthwise, there were many times when it flipped over when being baked. We decided to put the colored face (the back) face up and bake, flipping it over so that in the end, the face without color (the front) ends up on top.
It seems to be difficult to bake a plastic base that is over 10 cm.
7. Place on a hard, flat, heat-proof surface and press down with something like a metal plate. It's hot, so be careful.
8. Once it has cooled, spray the reverse side (the side that is marked with colored pencils) with topcoat spray (Mr. hobby's anti-gloss spray) to prevent discoloration.
9. Use a 1.5 mm hand drill (sold at Can-do) or a pin vice to create holes.
10. We connected the plastic base with an earring set bought at a craft shop (Yuzawaya). You can buy radio pliers or jump ring closing tools (Daiso) at 100 yen shops.
11. All done.

Preparation:

1. Cut the plastic base (Can-do) into 5 cm squares and create markings in the direction of the base, then do some trial baking. According to the base, the way that it will shrink length-wise and width-wise will differ, so it is convenient to understand the characteristics of the base.
2. Use masking tape to indicate the frontside and backside of the plastic base.
3. Cut the plastic base. If you are making several at once, make sure to cut them in the same size length and width-wise. This will ensure that the plastic base will shrink in the same way when heated and turn out nicely.

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