In 1985, black market guns started to appear in Taiwan, and the crime rate soared. Many intellectuals began to lose hope in the social order and threw themselves into religion. Suddenly, Zen meditation classes and Buddhist study camps became all the rage.
一九八五年，台灣開始出現黑槍，治安亮起紅燈，很多知識份子對治安失望，轉而投入宗教，一時之間，禪修班、佛學營成了熱門課程。