Shaolin Buddha Onstage
I’m not performing this year in 2020. I’m going to focus on being Buddha Zhen instead of Buddha Z this year. I’ve cancelled all my poetry performances and shows for 2020 also. Although I was performing under the title, “Richard Del Connor – Philosopher Poet,” I always began and ended all performances with the traditional one-handed Luohan Bow used by Disciples of Bodhidharma of the original Shaolin Temple. Even when performing as “Kung Fu Cowboy” at several night clubs and a couple videotaped performances at Kulak’s Woodshed in North Hollywood, this Luohan Bow, is the only way that I bow during public performances. I think I was using this bow in 1989 at clubs like Club Lingerie in Hollywood when I performed solo. Perhaps not during the band performances of the COYOTE GRAVEYARD band or the prior rock opera performances of Coyote In A Graveyard. I’m not sure. Unfortunately, there are no videos of those performances — that I know of.
Hmmm. There are some videos of performances of the “THE COYOTE” band in Salt Lake City. I look forward to unearthing those videos some day and transferring them to digital from 1/2″ VHS. I need a VHS player. Where do you find one of those? Pawn shop?
When I performed with my children for a half-dozen or more cable television performances, I think we all bowed that way. Some of those are on 3/4″ video masters of broadcast quality. Once again, I need to find a 3/4″ video player to transfer those.
So that means this blog probably won’t have much activity in 2020. But I’d like to get it ready, perhaps even develop the beginnings of a fan base, and have some places ready for the albums and books I wanna release in 2021.
First Blog Homepage of Shaolin Communications
This is my first website using a BLOG as the HOMEPAGE. I think it will be a good idea when I start performing as BUDDHA Z. When that happens, this website will become my prime focus.
Currently, I’m focusing on being BUDDHA ZHEN and filming all the classes for the BEGINNER LEVEL of Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu, Taoist Tai Chi Chuan, and Confucian Strategy ONLINE SCHOOL at www.ShaolinInteractive.com
Webmaster Without a Computer
I’ve shot over 100 classes and will start offering them for sale… I hope this month of February 2020. Both of my Apple Macintosh computers have died this year. One was a 2003 ibook and the other a 2007 quad core…
I’ve borrowed this PC computer which cannot edit my videos or… but I can do a few things…
Lacking Support for Shaolin…
I have an amused frustration over fundraising and seeking supporters of our
- Traditional Shaolin Kung Fu
- Youth Programs using Tai Chi Chuan
- American Zen – America’s First Buddhist Rock Band
- Buddha Z – author of Supersoul 13, Tai Chi Beginner, and Tao of Taoism – Using the Dao Te Ching to Improve Your Life
- Buddha Zhen – Shaolin Records artist releasing CD album of Meditation Music: Tai Chi Magic
- The Hippy Coyote album : Coyote Radio Tujunga
- Kung Fu Cowboy album release: End Of The Line recorded in his Tacoma truck while homeless
- Richard Del Connor “Philosopher Poet” performances of poetry and solo flute
- Shaolin Chi Mantis ONLINE KWOON teaching Northern Shaolin Kung Fu (88 videos per belt rank)
- FREE Shaolin Kung Fu at www.ShaolinKungFuBeginner.com
- Just being filmed and released FREE episodes of the DAILY TAOIST on Instagram
- Self-help book based on Lao Tzu: TAO OF TAOISM – Using the Dao Te Ching to Improve Your Life
- Or any of our Shaolin Communications enterprises founded by Richard Del Connor in 1984:
- www.ShaolinCOM.com
- www.ShaolinRecords.com
- www.BuddhaKungFu.com
- www.ShaolinChiMantis.com
- And websites of Shaolin Records exclusive artists:
- www.AmericanZen.org
- www.BuddhaZ.com
- www.BuddhaZhen.com
- www.CoyoteRadio.TV
- www.CoyoteRadio.net
- www.KungFuCowboy.com
- www.HippyCoyote.com
- And product websites:
- www.TaiChiMagic.com
- www.CoyoteRadioTujunga.com
Social Media Marketing
Facebook Pages of Shaolin Communications
- Zombie Three
- Shaolin Records
- Buddha Zhen
- Shaolin Digital
- Buddha Kung Fu
- Shaolin Chi Mantis Buddhist Gongfu and Taijiquan
- Tai Chi Youth
- Kung Fu Cowboy
- Chinese Yoga
- Shaolin Communications
- Shaolin Pictures
- American Zen
- The Happy Hippie Hippy Coyote
- Supersoul
- The Rich
- Zen Buddhist Podcast of Shaolin Zen
- A Cat Named Bear
- Shaolin Zen
- Chinatown Comics
Twitter Accounts
- Richard Del Connor
- Buddha Zhen
Patreon Donor Accounts
- Richard Del Connor
- Buddha Zhen “Buddha Z”
Instagram Accounts
- Richard Del Connor
- Buddha Zhen “Buddha Z”
One-Man Marketing Campaign
As you know, I’m a one-man operation since 1991 when my daughter was born. I tried several times to have a rock band with other musicians in 1991 when I formed AMERICAN ZEN in Salt Lake City, Utah. I decided when she was born that I was going to be responsible for raising her. I became a 24/7 Mr. Mom. I’m proud of how well I raised her. I tried putting her in daycare when she was five years old after spending every day all day changing diapars, and caring for her. I was hoping to gain some extra time to work on my INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL, Shaolin Records, formed in 1984 when I released my first vinyl record.
However, both I and Caitlin’s mother agreed that her behavior and language skills were being subverted and undermined by associating with the other daycare children being supervised by teenagers without sufficient parenting skills. We both decided it was in Caitlin’s best interest if I resumed raising her full-time and continued her homeschooling until Kindergarten when I could be an assistant teacher at Bennion Elementary in 1997 when he taught all her fellow students their first computer skills. During the holiday vacations of Easter and Summer months, I also taught Tai Chi classes for free to the entire school. There were so many students we divided them into grades 1 to 3, followed by another group of students grades 4 and 5.
During those years I founded Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu by volunteering and teaching at a Maximum Securigy Prison for two years, a couple rehabilitation centers, the YWCA, several other elementary schools,, a middle school, a high school, and several churches. I was accompanied by my daughter when she wasn’t attending public school except at the prison. There are lots of photos of her in the classes. My lifelong smile was also earned when she was able to lead all the adults at the Unitarian Church for the first half-hour of yoga, kicking and punching exercises when she was only 5-years old.
My son was born in 1998 and when he started kindergarten the teacher was amazed that he knew mathematics and could spell the word, “computer.” I really enjoyed raising my kids and obviously put a lot of time and effort into it. My years in Salt Lake City were rich with the lives I helped and benefited in our Shaolin Chi Mantis and Tai Chi Youth classes. I have letters of thanks from the office of the Governor, mayor and was surprised when the Chief of Police gave me credit for “cleaning up Liberty Park with my Kung Fu classes.”
Being a “hippy Buddhist from California” earned me some scorn from some Salt Lake Mormons who even tried to get me boycotted and fired from some of the institutions I became renowned at. This resulted in a backlash against them from the “Mormon Politboro” who issued “edicts?” to local parishes to stop their parishoners from hassling me. This resulted in the last few years I spent in Salt Lake City being wonderful and fruitful. The local Karate teachers would cringe when my students showed up at tournaments because they shined so brightly with skills and social graces beyond their competing students.
