After my husband passed away in 1980, my son came home one day with a book titled Records of the Life of Venerable Master Hua. From it, he learnt about Western Bliss Gardens Monastery in Hong Kong's Xiao-qi Wan as well as the story of the duck that went there to listen to the sutras. This fueled my son's interest to visit the place. Hence, he decided to climb up the mountain to make offerings. There, he met and told Dharma Master Guo Liang about me being very depressed and ill after his father's death. Dharma Master Guo Liang taught him to recite the "Universal Door Chapter" and to transfer the merit to his father and me. Every weekend thereafter, my son would climb over 200 steps to Western Bliss Gardens bringing fruits and flowers as offerings.

It was not long before I too was influenced to listen to the Dharma as well as plant good roots. In 1981, I took the Three Refuges with the Venerable Master. I was already 74 then.

On the 15th day of the third lunar month in 1981, I visited the temple as usual. Dharma Master Guo Liang said, "Tomorrow is Venerable Master Hua's birthday. Why don't you go to the Hong Kong Building to look for Dharma Master Heng Yi?" The next day, after lunch, I went to the Buddhist Lecture Hall in Happy Valley. Coincidentally, an empty seat was left, as if awaiting a guest. I was invited to take that seat and was offered a vegetarian lunch as well. During that time, Guo Ying and Guo Zi attended to me very warmly and in no time, I became a volunteer in the kitchen. Everyone worked happily in full cooperation.

In September of 1982, I attended the "Opening the Light Ceremony' at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB). During the Guanyin Recitation, whenever Guanyin Bodhisattva's holy name was recited, my body would shake for no reason, until I was rolling on the floor. Members of the assembly helped me by reciting the Buddha's name. Before long, I awoke seemingly from a dream. A few days later, when I met Venerable Master Hua, he asked, "What do you wish to say?" I was very surprised that the Venerable Master knew my inner thoughts as I was having discursive thoughts; I had donated a Buddha image for all of my children and grandchildren, except for one granddaughter. In the midst of my thoughts, Venerable Master Hua specially helped me to put up a "Pai Wei" (ancestral plaque) for my deceased husband. At that time, I didn't yet know how merit and virtue could be transferred to the deceased by putting up plaques.

After leaving CTTB, I went to Gold Wheel Monastery in Los Angeles to attend an Amitabha Buddha Recitation Session. During recitation, my body again began to shake. I managed to control myself, stood up and asked Venerable Master Hua for the reason. He only answered, "Do not sit." In a daze, I heard the Master telling the person next to him that I was undergoing the suffering of being apart from the person I loved. To this day, I am still unable to untie this knot.

In 2002, on the third day of the third lunar month, Ci-xing (Flourishing Compassion) Monastery on Lantao Island organized an "Opening the Light Ceremony." I was sick and did not feel like attending; eventually, I still went. Upon reaching the junction of Long-xi Road, the little cart van that was used to ferry people up the mountain refused to move. The vehicle had broken down. We were forced to walk up the mountain track (it takes about 1 1/2 hours to reach the temple from the foot of the mountain). We walked very slowly, my feet were in pain and my heart was feeling very unwell. Guo Zi, saying that she heard my panting from afar, had hurried from behind to catch up with me. She gave me a piece of ginseng to put into my mouth, enabling me to arrive at Ci-xing Monastery peacefully. It was about six in the evening and the sky was getting dark when we arrived.

I recall that when I was helping out in the kitchen at CTTB, I would help to offer fruits/ flowers and incense to the Jian-zhai Bodhisattva everyday. In the kitchen at Ci-xing Monastery, the Jian-zai Bodhisattva's seat was very high. I had wished so much to offer incense but my feet didn't allow me to climb high; I was not at ease. At the meal offering on the next day, Upasaka Ho asked me to offer incense to Jian-zai Bodhisattva, fulfilling my wish and putting me at ease.  

In 1996, I rejoiced and participated in the Guanyin Recitation Session at the Buddhist Lecture Hall. That day, my children gave me HK$10,000. As it was a Sunday, I was unable to deposit the money in the Bank. In the middle of the following night, there was a break-in at my house. The doors were locked, but at around 3 am, someone woke me up, saying "Sister, the police are after me, I came in to hide." I asked him, "How did you come in?" He replied, "I climbed in through the toilet." "What do you want to do?" He was very fierce and wanted to hit me with a stick I instantly chanted "Namo Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa" three times, and he quieted down. If I had shouted "Help!" he would have hurt me. He was holding a kitchen knife. Suddenly, I remembered my handbag and reached for it at the headboard, it was no longer there. I quickly asked "Where is my handbag?" He replied, "Under the table outside the room," adding, "I woke you because I could not find the door key." Actually, the door key was hanging just beside the door, but he did not notice it in his panic. I opened the door and let him out. Under the Buddha altar, I found my wallet and fortunately, my money intact. Recalling the incident later, I shivered with fear and fell sick for a week.

In the Buddhist Lecture Hall, each time the Amitabha Praise was sung, I would cry till I almost fainted. I also frequently dreamt of Venerable Master and not long after the dreams, I recovered from my illness. Once, I was coughing very badly but still went to pray, and I got better. In my dreams, Venerable Master would sometimes be in the Buddha Hall. Other times, he rode on clouds through the kitchen, followed by other fellow Sangha members.