The Floor
Plan of
Eighteen layers in Hell
15 August 2006
According to the Buddhist believes,
when someone’s karmic debt is too heavy, upon
death he or she won’t be able to go anywhere
else but plunge straight down to Hell. So
ultimately, it is not Ghost King’s verdict
but one’s own karmic weight that gets one fall
into Hell and stuck there.
Hell is said to be a world at the
bottom of the universe, or more precisely, at the
inner most layer of the cosmos. And Hell itself
is again divided into many layers (or say, many
levels), each characterised with a particular
kind of terror. Following is one of many versions
of the Hell’s floor plan:
The First Floor:
Name: Chamber of Tongue Ripping
Function: Those who stir up troubles by gossiping
will find their tongues being ripped out.
The Second Floor:
Name: Chamber of Scissors
Function: Those who break the marriage of others
will have their fingers cut off.
The Third Floor:
Name: Chamber of Iron Trees
Function: Those who cause discords among family
members of other people will find their body
being pierced by hooks and hung upside down on
iron trees.
The Fourth Floor:
Names: Chamber of Mirror
Functions: Those who escape the earthly
punishment will find their true shape being
displayed in the mirror, and the old karmic debt
will have to be paid with high interest.
The Fifth Floor:
Name: Chamber of Steamer
Function: Instigators and hypocrites will find
themselves being steamed in a steamer.
The Sixth Floor:
Name: Forest of Copper Column
Function: Arsonists will get themselves stuck to
a scotching hot copper column.
The Seventh Floor:
Name: Mountain of Knifes
Function: Those who kill sentient beings with
knife will find themselves climbing a hill of
knifes.
The Eighth Floor:
Name: Hill of Ice
Function: Cold-blooded schemers and ungrateful
suckers, including those who ill-treat their
partners and elders, will find themselves naked
in this freezing cold environment.
The Ninth Floor:
Name: Cauldron of Boiling Oil
Function: Sex offenders such as rapists, lechers
and adulterers will find themselves being fried
in boiling oil.
The above are the upper nine floors
belonging to the East Hell. Further down is the
West Hell with another nine floors.
The Tenth Floor:
Name: Chamber of Ox
Function: Those who abuse animals will find
themselves being bullied by animals.
The Eleventh Floor:
Name: Chamber of Rock
Function: Those who abandon or kill newborns will
find themselves being crushed under a rock and
soaked in filthy water.
The Twelfth Floor:
Name: Chamber of Pounding
Function: Those who wilfully waste food will find
themselves being pounded like crops.
The Thirteenth Floor:
Name: Pool of Blood
Function: Those who do not respect others will
find themselves soaked in blood. It is said that
those who died of bleeding are actually given a
preview of their afterlife.
The Fourteenth Level:
Name: Town of Quitters
Function: Those who commit suicide will find
themselves wandering in this town of misery where
the wind of sorrow and rain of grief blasting day
and night. They are the ones slipping off the
normal incarnation paths and will live in the
gaps of the worlds for a long, long time.
The Fifteenth Level:
Name: Chamber of Dismemberment
Function: Those who disturb the deceased by
digging tombs will find their body being torn
into pieces.
The Sixteen Floor:
Name: Mountain of Flames
Function: Those who steal, briber and rob will
find themselves surrounded by the lasting
inferno.
The Seventeenth Floor:
Name: Yard of Stone Mill
Function: Those who abuse their power and oppress
the people will find themselves being ground into
powder.
The Eighteenth Floor:
Name: Chamber of Saw
Function: Those who exploit the loopholes in the
law to cheat and engage in malpractice in
business will find themselves being sawed into
half.
From the Buddhist point of view,
being a sufferer in Hell is just one of six ways of
living, and once a hell mate paid off its
karmic debt, it will become light enough to rise
up and be reincarnated into other forms of
existence.
Hell, though terrifying, is as solid
and as illusive as this human world. Since it is
a universally shared perception, like the sun the
moon and indeed the universe itself, it won’t
burst into Nothingness because
you do not believe in it, just as the moon won’t
disappear because you do not see it - unless, of
course, it is a moon or a hell in your dreamland
and being susdained by your solo consciousness.
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