So now, in 2020 Buddha Zhen is relaunching the “Zen Buddhist Podcast of Shaolin Zen” at www.ZenBuddhistPodcast.com

These podcasts will be hosted at http://www.zenbuddhistpodcast.net

They will also be available at all kinds of other podcast directories including APPLE PODCASTS and SPOTIFY.

Check out the very fresh new website at www.ZenBuddhistPodcast.com

The website was completed September 15, 2020.

Now we’re ready to launch a brand new batch of podcasts.

We will also repost the OLD PODCASTS of 2006, 2007, and 2008.

The original podcasts were sometimes reading from the pages of https://www.ShaolinZen.org/cybertemple

• Audiobook Recording in new Shaolin Records Closet Studio, Lancaster, California
  • Recorded entire paperback novel, Masonic Kung Fu – Book 1
  • Edited and mixed final sound files and UPLOADED to AUDIBLE.com

Update August 9, 2020

Yay. My first audiobook production. Masonic Kung Fu – Entered Apprentice by Richard Del Connor.

A lot of experimenting with SPL sound pressure levels in abs, digital limiters, parametric equalizers… I look forward to more experience to gain mastery in sound mixing.

AND: I made a new book cover for Audible.com.

This is the DESCRIPTION for the audiobook to be published at Audible.com.

Richard Del Connor discovered “Masonic Kung Fu” on June 9, 2009 while practicing his Shaolin Kung Fu and studying for his Freemason “3rd Degree” test. Richard noticed that one of his Chinese Kung Fu forms (martial art dance) contained the secret hand signs and signals he’d been learning as firstly, an Entered Apprentice Mason. A little further in the form Richard noticed the secret hand signs of the 2nd Degree in masonry… then the 3rd Degree secrets… Richard excitedly took this dance to his Masonic Lodge and performed it for the 3rd Degree Master Masons. They took a vote and unanimously voted that this Kung Fu dance had been created to contain the secrets of Freemasonry. When he performed this “Ling Po” form fast, even the masons couldn’t see the secrets. But when he slowed down in certain spots he could hear the gasps as the masons recognized their “dugards” and “signs.” The Chinese name of this form translates to “Continuous Motion Form” so that even the title would prevent students from accidentally revealing the embedded secrets of Freemasonry.
During the research of this “Masonic Kung Fu” form, Richard found information that traced this masonic Kung Fu dance being passed between Kung Fu systems and even his own Grandmaster, Chiu Chuk Kai. So Richard created this fictional story to keep his past masters out of trouble. Based upon trues stories, Richard’s novel is of two Chinese teenagers rescuing a British Freemason secret agent who is trapped on the Chinese coast as the Japanese army invades China in 1937 to begin WWII.
This book is also an interesting comparison of the initiation secrets and ceremonies of English Freemasonry and Chinese Buddhist Kung Fu. The head shaving and killing of Hiram Abif are parallel ceremonies unknown to most people.
Although Richard Del Connor teaches this “Ling Po” (“Lian Bu”) in his Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu schools, he only reveals the secrets to brother 3rd Degree Master Masons.

• Shaolin SENIOR LIFE
  • Videotaping Shaolin Kung Fu CLASSES for www.ShaolinInteractive.com
    • Currently: SEMESTER #2: “WHITE SASH + 1 Green Stripe” Belt Rank Level, Shaolin Chi Mantis BEGINNER PROGRAM
      • NEW KICK: Front Roundhouse
      • NEW FORM: “Luohan 1” (over 1,200 years old)
      • 12 TANTUI: 1, 2, 3, 4
      • Leading Class during Tai Chi Chuan Short Form PRACTICE

Shaolin Zen Buddhist SANGHA

• NEW Shaolin Zen Sangha in LANCASTER, California
  • Not videotaping or having students visit school = NO Sangha
  • Create ONLINE Sangha?

Kung Fu MUSIC & MOVIES

“Black Hills Ride”
by American Zen

• First MUSIC VIDEO made using iPhone 11 Pro Max. “Black Hills Ride” completed February 2, 2020.
  • Not really a Kung Fu video, but good for practicing or performing Kung Fu to. SCM Demo Team Music?

Meditation MUSIC & MOVIES

• Tai Chi Magic 1 has MEDITATION music on it.
  • “Boundless Space”

Tai Chi Chuan MUSIC & MOVIES

• Tai Chi Magic 1 has TAI CHI MUSIC on it.
  • “Tai Chi Magic”

Yoga MUSIC & MOVIES

• Tai Chi Magic 1 has YOGA MUSIC on it
  • “In The Pool of Enlightenment”

As several of these ten WordPress websites are being completed, it seemed odd to shift focus to another website.  I searched through all my business plans and marketing plans I’ve designed since moving to Lancaster in October, 2019.

Why?

I’m finishing my “Vision Quest” which isn’t really an annual event, but I’m very acutely aware of it every year at this time.  It was in 1994 that I had my first “Hanblechia” at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

This year it kind of happened.  Living on the street the past six years made privacy extinct.  Comfort, peace, quiet, and serenity, didn’t even exist in the confines of my car as it rocked side to side when cars would drive by…

This year I allowed myself to enjoy my privacy.  Yeah, it’s been the Covid-19 lockdown, but I’ve got nowhere to go and no friends to visit.  With the death of Oscar Barrera I don’t even have any friends to talk to.

So my Vision Quest just kind of happened.  After a couple weeks, I realized I had several unresolved objectives… and then I realized I was searching for a MOTIVATION to accomplish my objectives.

I wasn’t planning to lay out my Vision Quest here, but I realized how my life has always been motivated by jobs, kids, wives, girlfriends, projects, assignments, classes… and that I was mostly a very obedient worker and excellent student.  Okay.  So what.  Who am I?

It took a couple more weeks to discover the answer.  I’m still wrestling with it.

One of the answers was, “LAUNCH ShaolinZen.TV.”

Huh?

“MAKE THAT your primary website.”

Huh?

I argued with God a little but he was not impressed with my ineptitude, laziness, or lack of resources to launch this website…

Finally.  I acquiesced.  (I’m not a pushover for any God…)

So I’ve been working on ShaolinZen.TV

Since Shaolin Zen Television is actually an offshoot of the Shaolin Zen CyberTemple at www.ShaolinZen.org — I decided to offer the Buddhism classes as podcasts and video series…  And stuff I haven’t decided on yet… Because my Vision Quest said to…

In fact, I went another level and decided to use the same LifterLMS Learning Management Software of our Shaolin Chi Mantis school and use it on ShaolinZen.TV also to make a better student atmosphere with QUIZZES and PROGRAMS and MEMBERSHIPS… ALL FOR FREE.

Yeah.  I hope I’ll sell some stuff.  But the classes and all the programs are going to always be FREE.  Seems more Buddhist that way!

So here’s ShaolinZen.TV

(Check it out!)

And here’s the other ten WordPress Websites I’m working on:

1. BuddhaZ.com

2. CoyoteRadio.TV

3. FolkRockTroubadour.com

4. PsychedelicRockOpera.com

5. ScorpionResurrection.com

6. ShaolinChineseYoga.com

7. ShaolinDigital.com

8. ShaolinFilm.com

9. ShaolinInteractive.com

10. ShaolinKungFuBeginner.com

One thing, that surprised me, was to change direction and launch ShaolinZen.TV website/radio station/television station…

I went around my office and looked at my various strategies and plans I’d drawn up since moving here to Lancaster in October. None of them had ShaolinZen.TV. If this was such a good idea–why hadn’t I thought of it?

Well, obviously, I’ve done more than think of it. I’ve tried to launch the website a few times but without any movies or… stuff to make it what it should be. More multi-media… as we said in the “old-school” days.

But here I am. Alone in reality–seeking not to be alone in an infinite Abbys of spiritual ether. (Yeah. I’m finding the logic to difficult to locate also.)

I could and maybe should go into more detail… but the reason I’m here… the reason I’m posting this FIRST POST of this NEW WordPress website designed by Rich Connor Singing Webmaster of Shaolin Digital for our parent company, Shaolin Communications which is owned by Richard Del Connor… me.

So I’m doing this for me. Huh?

I have to build a website, www.ShaolinZen.TV?

For me?

I have to somehow figure out how to make this a “MULTI-MEDIA” website?

For me?

I have to make this entertaining and fun?

For me?

Since this is “Shaolin” and that’s what I’m really promoting here then… what do I do?

For me?

The me-me-me-me-me thing is tickling me. I need to be more selfish. Most people need to be less selfish. Sorry for pointing that out…

For me? Well, I’ve had some fun up to here.

Perhaps I’ll explain more later, but this website was prominent in my Vision Quest.