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黃果寶居士是印尼華裔，自小文靜勤勞。家裡信奉民間道教，拜觀音菩薩，但以雞鴨魚肉供養佛祖。那時果寶居士眼看到的出家人，皆是住情舍，開私家車，比在家人還享受，因此對佛教很不瞭解。
姐姐嫁到馬來西亞後，接觸到了佛教，回娘家說及上人，及其在美建立道場，弘揚佛法之事。又於1991年到萬佛聖城拜萬佛寶懺，皈依受五戒，法喜充滿。果寶居士因此才對佛教生了信仰，於1992年法總訪問馬來西亞時，皈依上人並受五戒，由上人座下的比丘代打皈依儀式。
黃居士又於1992年8月到聖城參加水陸空大法會，會後就留下來入了居士訓練班；不久與另一位同修，一起調到長堤為上人侍者。親見上人儉樸忙碌的生活，即使吃飯，也時常接聽電話，照顧各道場，並解決居士們的問題。
上人無私地奉獻自己，仍說：「只要有一口氣在，就要講法。」看上人在病中仍度人不已，很是感動。上人曾問她：「妳要不要出家？」答：「要，但爸爸反對。」上人說：「那慢慢來。」
後來父親也皈依了。家裡13個兄弟姐妹，全跟姐姐信佛。
上人圓寂前，姐姐家中上人法相無故倒了下來，隨即來電問上人在哪？上人答：「盡虛空，遍法界。」事後想起，上人是先給姐姐通消息呢！
黃居士隨侍上人數載，深得法益。她現在西雅圖金峰寺，護持道場之餘，勤誦大悲咒、觀音菩薩名號、及上人名號。
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Upasika Wiharpon (Guo Bao Huang) is an Indonesian of Chinese descent who is gentle and diligent. Her family worships Taoist deities and Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, but offers meat to the Buddhas. She saw Buddhist monks living in private dwellings, driving their own cars, and enjoying more luxury than most laypeople, so she did not know what genuine Buddhism was.
After her elder sister got married and moved to
Malaysia, she came in contact with Buddhism and told her family about the Venerable Master, who had opened temples and was propagating Dharma in the U.S. In 1991 her sister came to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB) and was filled with the joy of Dharma. This inspired Wiharpon to believe in Buddhism, and when a delegation from CTTB visited Malaysia in 1992, she took refuge with the Master and received the five precepts.
Upasika Huang came to CTTB in August 1992 to join the Water-Land-Air Dharma Assembly and stayed on. Soon she was assigned to be the Venerable Master's attendant in Long Beach. She witnessed the Master's frugal and hectic lifestyle. Even when eating, he often took phone calls, managed temple business, and answered people's questions.
The Master unselfishly gave of himself, saying, "As long as I have a breath left, I will speak Dharma." Seeing the Master helping and saving people even when he himself was ill, Wiharpon was very touched. The Master once asked her, "Do you want to leave the home life?" She said, "Yes, but my father is against it." The Master said, "Go slowly."
Later her father also took refuge with Master, and her thirteen siblings followed her lead and became Buddhists.
Before the Master passed into stillness, the Master's image in her sister's home fell over for no apparent reason. The family called to ask where the Master was, and the Master himself answered, "Throughout space and the Dharma Realm." Later, they realized that the Master had been giving them a hint!
During her years as the Master's attendant, she derived great benefit. She now lives at Gold Summit Monastery in Seattle and spends her time supporting the temple and reciting Great Compassion Mantra.
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