Words you’ll hear, people you’ll meet

Meanings come from Master Sha’s own books and websites wherever we could find them, and each entry names its source. Where a meaning is Master Sha’s teaching, we say so. Spotted something we got wrong? Tell us.

People

The co-authors of the free books

Master Maya Mackie (co-author of Greatest Love) is a Master Teacher trained by Master Sha and a trainer at Tao Academy. Master Cynthia Deveraux and Master David Lusch (co-authors of Greatest Forgiveness) are Certified Master Teachers of Tao Academy; the book describes Master Cynthia as Master Sha’s lineage holder, and Master David as the author of How I Healed My Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Source: “About the Authors” in each book (2017 and 2019).

Master Francisco Quintero

One of Master Sha’s Leading Teachers and a certified Master Teacher of Tao Academy, with Master Sha for over 20 years. He co-wrote Greatest Love with Master Sha and Master Maya Mackie, and wrote Divine Joy: How to Experience Joy in Daily Life.

Sources: francisco.drsha.com; “About the Authors”, Greatest Love.

Teacher Henderson Ong

One of Master Sha’s Leading Teachers, and a Certified Leading Master Teacher and Healer of Tao Academy. His official teacher page also lists him as a Certified Tao Calligraphy Teacher, a Guan Yin Lineage Holder and a Certified Tao Hands Practitioner. A former dancer, he teaches Tao Dance and Tao Movement. He also designed the covers of both free books. He is in the Philippines from October 2026 to February 2027; see his consultations.

Sources: drsha.com teacher page; henderson.drsha.com; the books’ copyright pages.

Dr. Pauline Quimson, MD

One of our guides, a physician in Manila. She is the first person to contact with questions: 0915 973 3111.

Dr. and Master Rulin Xiu

One of Master Sha’s Leading Teachers, who co-created Tao Science with him and co-wrote books on it. See Tao Science.

Sources: drsha.com, Leading Teachers; Greatest Forgiveness, Introduction.

Master Sha Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha

The teacher behind every practice on this site, and the creator of Tao Hands and Tao Calligraphy. His full name and title is Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha; his own sites also write “Dr. & Master Sha”, and most people simply say “Master Sha”. Born in Shaanxi Province, China, he holds a medical degree in Western medicine from China and is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. His official site calls him a Tao Grandmaster and the author of over 30 books, 11 of them New York Times bestsellers. He founded Tao Academy and the Love Peace Harmony Foundation.

Sources: drsha.com, About Master Sha; “About the Authors”, Greatest Love (2017).

Shirley Libre

One of our guides, based in Los Baños, helping newcomers south of Manila.

The practice

Blessing

Healing offered on the spiritual level, by a practitioner or teacher, or through your own practice. It is offered alongside, never instead of, medical care. Receive one at a Healing Day.

Compassion Messenger

Someone who has completed Master Sha’s Da Bei Zhou Compassion Messenger program, which centers on the Great Compassion Mantra.

Source: drsha.com, Da Bei Zhou Compassion Messenger Program.

Forgiveness practice

Asking forgiveness for harm you and your ancestors have caused, and offering forgiveness to all who have harmed you. It is part of almost every practice. The three-line mantra is: “I forgive you unconditionally. You forgive me unconditionally. Bring love, peace, and harmony.”

Source: Greatest Forgiveness, chapters 1 and 3.

Greatest Compassion Chanting

Our name for the daily midday chanting of Da Bei Zhou with Teacher Henderson, every day at 1:00 PM Manila time, live on Facebook.

Heart and Soul Series

Master Sha’s series of short books, one for each of the Ten Da. Greatest Love is the first and Greatest Forgiveness the second. Download both free.

Karma

In Master Sha’s teaching, cause and effect: harm done in words, thoughts and actions returns as lessons, and good done returns as blessings. Forgiveness practice is how the books suggest working with it. You don’t need to share this belief to take part.

Source: Greatest Love, chapter 1; Greatest Forgiveness, Introduction.

Kuan Yin Lineage Holder also Guan Yin · KYLH

Someone who has completed Tao Academy’s Kuan Yin Lineage Holder training. Kuan Yin (Guan Yin) is the much-loved bodhisattva of compassion. Teacher Henderson is one of the training’s co-coordinators.

Sources: henderson.drsha.com; drsha.com teacher page.

Love Peace Harmony

A short song Master Sha says he received on September 10, 2005, beginning “I love my heart and soul”. We sing it together every evening at 7:45 PM Manila time, and our community sings it in many Philippine languages: sing along. The Love Peace Harmony Foundation shares it free, in many languages.

Sources: lovepeaceharmony.org, Our song; our daily schedule.

Say Hello Soul Power

Opening a practice by greeting and inviting, with love, the souls you ask to help you: your own body, heart and mind, and the Divine or Source. Master Sha calls this Soul Power, and it is how most practices begin.

Source: drsha.com, Six Power Techniques.

Six Power Techniques five in the free books

The building blocks of every practice. Master Sha’s site now lists six: Soul Power (say hello), Body Power (where you place your hands), Mind Power (visualizing, often golden light), Sound Power (chanting), Breathing Power, and Tao Calligraphy Power (tracing). The two free books teach five of them, without Breathing Power.

Sources: drsha.com, Six Power Techniques; Greatest Forgiveness, chapter 3.

Soul Language

In Master Sha’s teaching, the voice and language of the soul: sounds that flow when you let your soul speak, which every soul understands. It often comes up in chanting. Try it at a free introduction.

Sources: Master Sha’s books; drsha.com event pages.

Tao

In Master Sha’s teaching, Tao is the Source and Creator of all things, and the Way of all life. His organization says plainly that he is not teaching Taoism or a religion, and that Tao wisdom is compatible with other traditions. See Faith.

Sources: drsha.com, What is Tao; drsha.com, Master Sha’s teachings FAQ.

Tao Calligraphy

Master Sha’s calligraphy, written in Yi Bi Zi, “Oneness writing”, where a whole character is one continuous stroke. You don’t need to read Chinese: you trace it with your fingers while chanting, as a meditative practice. Both free books include one to trace.

Sources: drsha.com, Tao Calligraphy; Greatest Love, chapter 3.

Tao Hands

A spiritual healing practice created by Master Sha. After a two-day training and the “Tao Hands transmission”, you can offer blessings to yourself and others. It is the first formal step on the healer’s pathway.

Source: drsha.com, Tao Hands.

Tao Hands Practitioner

Someone who has completed the official Tao Hands training. In our community, practitioners serve at Healing Days and in the daily practices. See Community.

Tao Science

The name Master Sha and Dr. Rulin Xiu give to their work joining science and spirituality. Their short summary is the equation S + E + M = 1: soul, energy and matter, joined as one.

Source: Greatest Love, chapter 5; Greatest Forgiveness, Introduction.

Tao Song, Tao Dance, Tao Movement

Three of Master Sha’s practices. As his book Tao Song and Tao Dance puts it, Tao Song is sound from the Source, and Tao Dance is movement from the Source. Tao Movement is a soul-guided movement practice. See also the Tao Technology Series on our calendar.

Sources: drsha.com, Tao Song; drsha.com, Tao Movement; Tao Song and Tao Dance (Atria, 2011).

Tao technologies

The umbrella name for Master Sha’s practices: Tao Hands, Tao Calligraphy, Tao Song, Tao Dance, Tao Movement and more. Each is a different doorway into the same practice.

Ten Da the ten greatest qualities

Da means “greatest”. The Ten Da are ten qualities that, in Master Sha’s teaching, everyone carries within:

1. Da Ai 大愛 greatest love
2. Da Kuan Shu 大寬恕 greatest forgiveness
3. Da Ci Bei 大慈悲 greatest compassion
4. Da Guang Ming 大光明 greatest light
5. Da Qian Bei 大謙卑 greatest humility
6. Da He Xie 大和諧 greatest harmony
7. Da Chang Sheng 大昌盛 greatest flourishing
8. Da Gan En 大感恩 greatest gratitude
9. Da Fu Wu 大服務 greatest service
10. Da Yuan Man 大圓滿 greatest enlightenment

Sources: drsha.com, What are the Ten Da; Greatest Love, chapter 1.

Ten Da cards

What many of us call the small Tao Calligraphy cards of the ten qualities. Master Sha’s store sells them as “10 Da Calligraphy Cards”, singly or as a set of ten. They are used for tracing and kept as a blessing.

Source: Master Sha store.

Tracing

Following the path of a Tao Calligraphy with the five fingertips of one hand held together, usually while chanting. The books suggest ten minutes at a time, three times a day.

Source: Greatest Love, chapter 4; Greatest Forgiveness, chapter 3.

Transmission

In Master Sha’s teaching, a lasting spiritual blessing that a certified teacher gives for a specific need. Teacher Henderson’s consultations include one, which the store calls a “Tao Transformation Rainbow Light Ball and Rainbow Liquid Spring”.

Source: Master Sha store, consultation.

Chinese words you will hear

Da 大

“Greatest”, as in Da Ai (greatest love). Not to be confused with “Dao”, another spelling of Tao.

Da Bei Zhou 大悲咒

The Great Compassion Mantra: a much-loved Buddhist chant of Guan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion. Master Sha’s site says he learned it at age four, and his store calls it the “Big Compassion Mantra”. Don’t confuse it with Da Ci Bei, “greatest compassion”, one of the Ten Da.

Sources: drsha.com, About Master Sha; Wikipedia, Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī.

Da Tao Zhi Jian

“The Big Way is extremely simple.” Master Sha’s reminder that the practices are meant to be simple: try them and see.

Source: Greatest Love, Introduction.

Gong song said “gōng sōng”

Mandarin for “respectfully return”: a courteous goodbye, said three times at the very end, to the souls you invited at the start.

Source: Greatest Forgiveness, chapter 3.

Hao 好 · said “how”

Mandarin for “good, perfect, healthy”. Practices end with “Hao, hao, hao”, then “Thank you” three times.

Source: Greatest Forgiveness, chapter 3.

Lower Dan Tian

A fist-sized energy center in the lower abdomen, centered two or three inches below the navel, well known in tai chi and qigong. Many practices begin with a palm placed here.

Source: Greatest Forgiveness, chapter 3.

Message Center

Master Sha’s name for the heart chakra, the energy center in the middle of the chest. When a challenge isn’t physical, practices often place a hand here.

Source: drsha.com, Six Power Techniques.

Ming Men “life gate”

An acupuncture point on the lower back, directly behind the navel. Greatest Forgiveness uses the area in front of it in practices for relationships.

Source: Greatest Forgiveness, chapter 3.

Qi said “chee”

Energy, or life force. It is the same qi as in Qi Gong.

Shen qi jing said “shun chee jing”

Shen is soul, heart and mind; qi is energy; jing is matter. Master Sha teaches that everyone and everything is made of these three, and that soul leads heart, heart leads mind, mind leads energy, and energy leads matter.

Sources: drsha.com, the law of Shen Qi Jing; Greatest Forgiveness, Introduction.

Snow Mountain Area

One of the key energy centers named in Master Sha’s teaching, alongside the Lower Dan Tian and the Message Center. His events describe it as the Kundalini.

Source: drsha.com event pages.

Xiu Lian 修煉

“Cultivation practice”: the lifelong practice of purifying soul, heart, mind and body. Master Sha describes it as the way to align with Tao.

Sources: Wiktionary; Master Sha store, Tao II.

Yi Bi Zi said “ee bee dz”

“One stroke, one word”: a rare style of calligraphy where each character is written in one continuous stroke, the basis of Tao Calligraphy. Master Sha learned it from Professor Li Qiu Yun.

Source: Greatest Love, chapter 3.

Yuan Bao 元寶

Literally “primary treasure”: the boat-shaped gold and silver ingots once used as money in China. In Chinese tradition, paper is folded into this shape and burned as an offering. Master Sha’s store sells folded Yuan Bao for practitioners’ own offerings.

Sources: Wikipedia, Sycee; Wikipedia, Joss paper; Master Sha store.

Our community and calendar

Foundation Classes

Free online classes with Teacher Henderson on Thursday evenings, introducing the principles and practices.

Foundation Energy

A daily group practice on Zoom, 12:30–1:00 PM Manila time, to build a strong foundation for energy, stamina, vitality and immunity.

Foundations Intensive

A two-day program in January with additional healing practices, for those preparing for the practitioner workshop.

Guide

A volunteer who helps newcomers find their starting point and builds a practice plan with them. Our guides are Dr. Pauline Quimson and Shirley Libre. Meet them.

The healer’s pathway

Our name for the journey from first curiosity to serving others as a practitioner, in four stages: Discover, Explore, Prepare and Transform. See the stages.

Healing Day

A free gathering where you can receive blessings first-hand and meet practitioners.

Honor fee honor exchange

The fee for a paid program, training or consultation; Master Sha’s organization uses the same term. It honors a practitioner’s training, time and service, and is not the price of healing. Many activities are free. Why there is an honor fee.

Source: drsha.com event pages (“Honor Fee”).

Practitioner workshop

The three-day Tao Hands workshop, February 5–7, 2027, where participants become practitioners.

Tao Hands Daily

A free practice app made by a member of our community. It is independent, not an official app of Master Sha’s organization. taohandsdaily.com.

Tao practice

Our everyday name for any of the practices taught by Master Sha: chanting, tracing, meditation, movement and forgiveness.

Tao Practices Philippines

This website and the volunteer community behind it: practitioners across the Philippines helping newcomers find their way into Master Sha’s practices. We are informational, not a business, and not an official site of Master Sha’s organization. For official information, see official sites.

Tao Technology Series

Four one-day workshops, as named on our flyers: Tao Movement (eight foundational sets of movement, which the flyer calls the Ancient Wisdom Diamond Practice), Tao Sound (eight foundational sounds, used for healing rather than singing), Tao Dance and Tao Calligraphy. See the calendar.

Tuesday Gathering and Practitioners’ Reunion

The Tuesday Gathering is every Tuesday, 7:00–7:45 PM Manila time on Zoom, with Teacher Henderson, for practitioners and the Love Peace Harmony community. The Practitioners’ Reunion, with a Christmas gathering, is on December 6.

Organizations and official websites

DOH-PITAHC

The Department of Health – Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care, the government body that certifies practitioners of traditional and alternative health care in the Philippines, such as acupuncture. Some of our practitioners hold its certification. Meet them.

drsha.com

Master Sha’s main official website, run by Universal Soul Service Corporation: his teachings, events, certified teachers and free books. drsha.com · find a certified teacher

Free books, official page

Master Sha’s own page for the free digital books: Greatest Love and Greatest Forgiveness.

Heaven’s Library Publication Corp.

Master Sha’s publishing company, which holds the copyright to his books and owns most of his trademarks. The free books are published with BenBella Books.

Love Peace Harmony Foundation

The nonprofit Master Sha founded, which shares the Love Peace Harmony song and runs the Love Peace Harmony Movement. lovepeaceharmony.org

mastersha.com

Master Sha’s personal site, with his biography and the Love Peace Harmony Movement. mastersha.com

Master Sha’s stores

The official stores for books, calligraphy cards, consultations and more: mastersha.store (linked from drsha.com) and mastersha-usa.store, where Teacher Henderson’s consultations are booked.

Tao Academy

The school Master Sha founded, which trains and certifies teachers and practitioners. taoacademy.com

Names, trademarks and copyright

Many names you will hear belong to Master Sha’s organization. Below are the registrations we found, checked October 30, 2026; we could not check the Philippine register. This is our own care note, not legal advice. When in doubt, ask the organization through drsha.com.

Name	What we found	How we use it
Master Sha	Registered trademark in the US	Only to refer to him, never to name our own events or services
Tao Academy	Registered in the US; written Tao Academy®	Only for the official academy and its certifications
10 Da	Registered in Canada (TMA1256614)	We say “Ten Da” for the teaching; the products are “10 Da Calligraphy Cards”
Tao Song, Tao Dance, Tao Water	Registered in Canada	Only for Master Sha’s practices and programs
Soul Mind Body Medicine, Say Hello Healing	Registered trademarks in the US	Only when referring to his books and teaching
Heaven’s Library, Heart and Soul Series	Trademarks of Heaven’s Library Publication Corp., as the books state	Only when citing the books
Tao Calligraphy, Six Power Techniques, Soul Power	Marked ™ on drsha.com	Only for Master Sha’s calligraphy and techniques
Tao Hands	No registration found in the US or Canada, but it is the name of Master Sha’s practice	Sparingly, and only for the official practice and training

The books

The books are © Heaven’s Library Publication Corp., all rights reserved. Their copyright pages allow brief quotations in articles and reviews. To share a book, share the link to our page or to Master Sha’s official page; don’t edit or resell the files.

Calligraphy, logos and the song

The official sites’ terms don’t allow copying their images, logos or content without written permission. Please don’t post photos of Tao Calligraphy online; link to the official pages instead. The Love Peace Harmony song is shared freely to be sung, in many languages; when you share the words, credit Dr. and Master Sha and the Love Peace Harmony Foundation, as our sing-along does.

Sources: Tao Academy terms; Love Peace Harmony Foundation, legal.

Linking

Tao Academy’s terms allow links as long as they don’t suggest the organization sponsors the linking site. We link to official pages throughout, and we never present this site as official.

How to cite

Books: Zhi Gang Sha, with Maya Mackie and Francisco Quintero, Greatest Love (Dallas: BenBella Books, 2017). Zhi Gang Sha, with Cynthia Deveraux and David Lusch, Greatest Forgiveness (Dallas: BenBella Books, 2019). Websites: the page title, the site and the date you read it, for example “What are the Ten Da”, drsha.com, accessed October 30, 2026.