Seventy-five-year-old Heng Bu Shr, who has three sons, one daughter, three daughters-in-law and eight grandchildren, left the home-life at the beginning of 1993.

There are many people who consider leaving home, yet they are still so caught up in this mundane world that they cannot cut free of its entanglements. These hindrances deter them from fulfilling their wish of leaving home. For Heng Bu Shr, however, leaving home was an idea which had never occurred to her. She always went along with what fate had in store, dedicating her full energy to every single obligation, great and small, that she was supposed to fulfill. When her three sons and one daughter had started raising their own families and were able to take care of their own lives, she thought, "It's time for me to think about finding a true refuge for myself." This ingenuous thought quickly evoked a response from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; someone introduced her to a nearby Buddhahall where she could recite the Buddha's name, Afterward, someone came to ask her if she wanted to take refuge. She said she did. Later on, when she was requested to do some sewing for Sangha members, she readily agreed. When another person came to ask her if she was willing to renounce the household life and became a Buddhist nun, she replied without hesitation, "Yes, I am."

Heng Bu Shr said, "Leaving home doesn't depend on any condition, and you don't need to make deliberate preparations for it; the boat will guide itself ashore." These words really tally with what the Venerable Master has said: "Leaving home is simply leaving home, that's all. As long as your mind is sincere, you'll make it." Her spouse, who had for forty-eight years walked hand-in-hand with her on the secular path, offered his sincere support of her decision to renounce the sweetness of a family and instead take the path toward Buddhahood.

When she is asked," How is leaving home good?" she always replies in Taiwanese, "The burden on the shoulders gets lighter, and the mind becomes extremely pure and cool. One doesn't think of the past or the future, and even less is one preoccupied with the present. Give everything to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The Master gave me the Dharma name of Guo Shi, Heng Bu ('bu shi' means giving), which means I have to leave home. This is a straight road, natural and happy."