Getting back to the biography, the author, herself a follower of Sheng Yen's, faced a considerable challenge writing about him, given the bonds of loyalty and affection that are part of the master-disciple relationship. In this work, however, we see a novelist exercising her skill at presenting a scene and portraying human nature, and intentionally adopting an unaffected prose style.
回到本書，大師在生前由徒弟作傳，對作者而言是很大的挑戰，因為有師徒的傳承、情義、忠誠等限制，在此，我們可以看出擅長場景鋪陳、細膩刻畫人性的小說家作者刻意回歸平實的寫作方式。