He was like that until around ten years ago, when he happened to meet an old man who swept up at Tienshui Temple in Taipei's Tataocheng area. The old man didn't know that Lim was a star and chatted happily with him. Lim was inspired by the old man's words of wisdom and decided to learn from him.
直到十餘年前，他在大稻埕的天水宮巧遇一位掃地的老伯，老伯不知他是知名歌手，跟他聊得很愉快，而林強則從他充滿哲理的開示中得到啟發，決心來跟他「學道理」。