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親毅師是今年觀音出家法會時剛剃度的新科沙彌尼，臺灣臺南人；生長佛教家庭。1989年上人到臺南一座寺廟弘法，她和家人一起皈依，法名果芝。小學五年級時，第一次去高雄福慧寺就很喜歡，就留下來了；幾天後又跟去妙法寺入佛學院。讀了幾個月，被家人叫回去。此後只在放假期中，才去福慧寺和六龜法界聖寺參加法會，或當義工。
1993年上人赴臺弘法，一家四口同時受五戒。國中一年級完後，隨媽媽來美參加上人荼昆大典，即單獨留下入培德女中唸書。一年後又想出家，因此到法界聖城住了半年；最後決定回聖城完成中學學業。1996年寒假，媽媽也帶著弟弟來聖城讀書，並留下當義務老師至今。
1998申請出家，得允在今年剃度。現在去長堤聖寺與小沙彌尼共唸中學，明年六月即可高中畢業。親毅師生性嫻靜，從小不喜看電影、聚會等娛樂。常常想：死後會去哪裡？研究佛經後才知道生命的奧秘。小時即愛上寺廟，喜歡那種生活方式。高中開始感覺世界上一切都是虛幻不實的，只有出家才是最究竟的路。現在她不但要掌握自己的生死，也要幫助所有的眾生來解脫生死。
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Qin Yi Shi became a new Shramanerika (novice nun) this year on Guanyin Bodhisattva's Leaving Home Day. She grew up in a Buddhist family in Tainan, Taiwan. When the Venerable Master went to Taman in 1989, Qin Yi Shi and her family all took refuge. She received the Dharma name Guo Zhi. In fifth grade, she visited Blessings and Wisdom Monastery in Kaohsiung and liked it so much she stayed there. A few days later she enrolled in the Buddhist Academy at Wonderful Dharma Monastery. After she had studied for several months, her family called her home. From then on, holidays were the only time she could attend Dharma assemblies and volunteer at Blessings and Wisdom Temple and Dharma Realm Sagely Monastery in Liugui.
When the Venerable Master returned to Taiwan in 1993 to propagate Dharma, all four people in her family took the five precepts. Upon completing seventh grade, she accompanied her mother to attend the Venerable Master's Cremation Ceremony in the U.S. and then stayed on to attend Developing Virtue Girls High School. A year later she again wished to leave the home-life and thus moved to the City of the Dharma Realm for half a year. Eventually she returned to high school at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. During the winter break of 1996, her mother brought her younger brother to study at the City as well, and her mother became a volunteer teacher, which she still is to this day.
She applied to leave home again in 1998 and was permitted to do so this year. Now she is attending high school with the other novices at Long Beach Sagely Monastery, and will graduate next June.
Qin Yi Shi is quiet by nature. Ever since she was little, she has disliked movies, parties, and entertainment. She often pondered the question: Where will I go after I die? The Buddhist Sutras taught her the secrets of life. As a small child, she was drawn to the temple and monastic life. In high school, she felt that everything in the world was illusory and that the only true path was to leave home. She wants to liberate not only herself, but all sentient beings, from birth and death.
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