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來自馬來西亞檳城高淵的黃如嬌居士，原來在家住時，並不是正信的佛教徒。一九八六年，在一個偶然的機緣下，跟朋友到當地的一個佛教會去拜了一次懺，之後覺得很有趣，以後就常上佛教會去學法器，並作維那，帶金剛寶懺。那時雖然是在家人之身，也還沒斷葷；但卻出去替人唸經超渡、收紅包。一次在棺木邊唸經時，聽到怪異聲。又一次在墳場超渡一位自殺的人時，看見亡者兄弟姊妹哭喊的情形十分異常；知其有東西附身，心生害怕。
之後佛教會請得了恆蘇法師去講法，告以不可再吃肉，佛教徒應茹素。更不可以在家身份，幫人唸經超渡而拿紅包。這才開始斷葷、吃淨素，並不再拿錢替人誦經。恆蘇法師並介紹她到萬佛聖城去學正法，
黃居士生性至孝，於斷葷前，其父已患半身不遂症，口水整日直流。一日，黃居士燃臂發願，若父親病好能起身，即願終身茹素。因不懂燃香之法，自己燃得手臂化膿化血幾個月，最後所結的疤竟有五枚美幣二十五分銅板錢那麼大，但是奇怪的是，燃香完第二天，父親即能起身了，且行動自如。
聽過恆蘇法師講法之後，她的家人也皈依了三寶，並將家中原來供奉的一排外道神像全拆了，另供了本師釋迦牟尼佛、阿彌陀佛、及宣公上人德相。
家人自皈依三寶後，兄長們生意上凡遇到難題時，每次求上人後，隔天問題就自然解決了。很不可思議！黃居士自己茹素後，原來的肝病也不藥而癒。身上因體內排毒機能不良，而長的顆粒亦消失了。於是在一九九○年來到萬佛聖城。
在萬佛聖城時學做功課，之後發心到君康素食館幫忙。現在每天除了早晚功課外，還持大悲咒一○八遍，忙得不亦樂乎，妄想也少了，覺得日子過得很篤定、很滿意。 |
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Upasaka Huang Guochiao, who comes from Nibong Tebel, Penang, Malaysia, originally wasn's a Buddhist with proper faith. Then one time in l986 a friend invited her to a Buddhist Association to join in the bowing of a repentance ceremony. The experience sparked her interest and she began to attend regularly to that Buddhist Association, where she learned how to play the Dharma instruments and even lead the Vajra Jeweled Repentance. Although she was still a layperson, not even a vegetarian, she would go out and recite sutras to save souls, and accept their offerings. One time when she was reciting sutras beside a coffin, she heard a weird sound. Another time when she was reciting in a cemetary for someone who had committed suicide, as she watched the siblings of the deceased going through the contortions of weeping and wailing, she realized that they were possessed and she became frightened.
Shortly after that, when the Buddhist Association succeeded in inviting Dharma Master Heng Su to speak the Dharma, he told her that she should no longer eat meat; and that as a Buddhist, she should eat pure vegetarian food. What is more, as a layperson, she definitely should not recite sutras for the deceased and accept money for doing it. From then on, she stopped eating meat and became a vegetarian; and she never again took money for reciting sutras for people. Dharma Master Heng Su advised her to also go to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas to study Proper Dharma. Her family also took refuge with the Triple Jewel and got rid of the whole row of externalist religion's images that they used to worship in their home. Now they venerate Shakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, and Venerable Master Hua's images.
Upasika Huang has always been a filial child. Before she stopped eating meat, her father, who had suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side, would drool all day long. One day Upasika Huang burned incense on her arm, making a vow: if my father's illness can get better to the point he can walk, then I will become a full vegetarian for life. Basically, she did not understand the method for making incense burns on the body and as a result the wounds infected and seeped pus and blood for several months. Thus the incense burn on her arm is a large as five American quarters. The strange thing was that the second day after she made the incense burns, her father was able to walk upright by himself.
After the family took refuge with the Triple Jewel, whenever her father and brothers encounter difficulties in their business, they sincerely seek help from Venerable Master Hua and the problems naturally resolve themselves overnight. And her own liver disease was cured by itself without having to take any medicine. The rash on her body caused by her inability to eliminate poisons also disappeared. And so in l990, she came to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas where she began taking classes. Later, she volunteered to help in Chunkang Vegetarian Canteen. Now, every day she is content with her life which includies doing morning and evening recitation and reciting 108 Great Compassion Mantras every day, along with her work at the Canteen. She's so busy the time flies and her false thinking has decreased significantly.
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