Richard Del Connor
Publisher info
Richard Del Connor has been publishing poetry since 1964, performing rock'n'roll since 1967, producing his own albums of music and recited poetry since 1972, and writing novels since 1984.
Richard Connor was known as Richard O'Connor from 1980 to 2007 after seeking to define his betrothal to Rita Wolf by identifying himself with his Irish heritage. He also discovered he was a descendent of the Spanish DeLaVega and Serrano families, German Warner and Settles also. When Richard became a Freemason in 2007 he dropped the "O'" and renewed his legal name of Richard Del CONNOR.
In 1984, while performing his rock opera, Coyote In A Graveyard, Michael J. Fox and the press dubbed him, "The Coyote." In 2007, after dissecting his brain and identity using his self-help website, ACT Zen, he became the happy hippie, "The Hippy Coyote." He also teaches bass, guitar, and singing lessons online.
Richard began studying Shaolin Kung Fu and Yang Tai Chi in 1980 learning Southern Style Sil Lum Gung Fu, then studying at the Tai Mantis Federation school in Torrance, California, where he graduated in 1984 as a "Sifu," or Shifu of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, Yang Style and Wang Style Tai Chi, and Northern Praying Mantis Boxing of the Tai Chi Mantis, 7-Star Mantis, and Plum Blossom heritages. His record company, Shaolin Records, was staffed with interns who received free daily Gongfu and Taijiquan lessons. This earned him the Buddhist Kung Fu name of Zhen Shen-Lang (Shen-Lang ZHEN), "Spirit Wolf of Truth," in 1994 after becoming a leader and representative of the Chinese communities in Utah who referred to him as, "Zhen Shifu." His mostly Mormon students addressed his as, "Master Zhen," until 2007 when as "Buddha Zhen," founder of, Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Gongfu & Taijiquan schools, he launched a new Kung Fu and Tai Chi school tailored for Americans, Buddha Kung Fu.
Also the founder and Patriarch of the nonprofit organization for troubled youth, Tai Chi Youth in 1996, Richard has established and taught Shaolin Kung Fu and Tai Chi classes in over a dozen public schools, three churches, several rehabilitation centers and a maximum security prison. This 501(c)(3) charity nonprofit education organization has improved the lives of hundreds of students by curing weight problems, obesity, drug addiction, mental and physical disorders. Senior programs of Tai Chi Youth were the most widely attended classes between 2003 and 2011 when Richard, "Buddha Zhen," taught at the YMCAs in Los Angeles, California.
Richard got one of his Shaolin Records interns pregnant and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah to be a Mr. Mom from 1991 to 2011. In Utah he became a one-man band, and began the "Buddhist Journey of American Zen," amidst protests and boycotts from the local Mormon organizations (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). American Zen became famous as "America's First Buddhist Rock Band," with its spiritual journey of poetry, essays, and albums of folk rock and classic rock music:
LEVEL 1 = PEACE OF MIND
LEVEL 2 = CHRIST KILLER
LEVEL 3 = I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME
LEVEL 4 = KUNG FU COWBOY PART 1: KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
LEVEL 4 = KUNG FU COWBOY PART 2: 3RD DEGREE MASTER MASON
LEVEL 4 = KUNG FU COWBOY PART 3: STONE ROSES
LEVEL 4 = KUNG FU COWBOY PART 4: THE COYOTE BLUES
Since 1999, American Zen fans of all ages have been following Richard's Buddhist odyssey through the band's albums, books, and albums at iTunes. A podcast series, The American Zen Buddhist Podcast, listed at itunes.com as "Coyote Radio .NET," led thousands of fans on a journey through the daily stories and Mr. Mom life of Richard Del Connor for several years through the web blogs at www.CoyoteRadio.NET Fans follow the continuing spiritual journey that is guiding today's youth to pursue spirituality.
In 2011, Richard began writing his first epic poems, Rainbow In The Shade, The Potatoe Valentine & Other Love poems, and The AntiChrist. Since Richard's first poems of the sixties, he strove to create the shortest, symbolic, creative poetry in short verses and songs of less than three minutes. To write poems over 10,000 words each became a new storytelling medium for Richard Del Connor, who also wrote this epic poetry under the name of, The Hippy Coyote. The AntiChrist was removed from the web and is no longer available to the public. Religious historians and scholars can obtain copies of this revolutionary book after signing release forms of confidentiality and nondisclosure.
After publishing The AntiChrist for a short period, Richard was "visited by Satan" who dictated many interesting facts to Richard that explained how many of Richard's stories and details of the epic poem, The Antichrist, were incorrect. Satan shared with Richard many stories of Heaven, God, the other angels, the creation of the Garden of Eden, Tower of Babylon, and other significant events in history up to the creation of Zen Buddhism in the sixth century by Bodhidharma at the original Shaolin Temple on Mt. Songshan in Northern China. This book is offered to the public at www.shaolinCOM.com as History of Zen from A to Z - Including the Meaning of Life, Creation of Heaven, Hell, Humans and Earth... by Richard Del Connor, "Buddha Zhen." (co-authored by Saten?)
Shaolin Communications also publishes lyric books from the albums Richard releases. The book, Kung Fu Cowboy Original Draft, is a handwritten rough draft of the book that will hopefully be finished, but was transformed into the life story of King Solomon instead of Richard's autobiography in Kung Fu Cowboy Part 1: King Solomon's Temple.
The Masonic Kung Fu Book 1 novel about teenagers in China, harboring a British Freemason as the Japanese attack in 1937, is a fictional version of how Richard's "Masonic Kung Fu" was invented. After becoming a 3rd Degree Master Mason and learning the secret hand signs, dugards, penalties, and symbols of freemasonry, Richard discovered that one of the Kung Fu Forms he has taught for 30 years, "Lian Bu, Ling Po, Lien Bu...," was created for teaching and practicing European masonry to Chinese males in the 1930s, when Chinese were prohibited from becoming freemsons.
Referred to as a "Buddhist Scientist," Richard offers thousands of pages of free resources to inspire, enlighten, and entertain. The Shaolin Zen "CyberTemple" has been improving the lives of over 1 million people since its creation in 1999. This "American Sect of Chinese Chan Buddhism," has had over 1 million attendees at the free website.
Join this Hippie Buddha, Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote, Buddha Zhen, on his various paths of fun, frolic, and fantastic wisdoms that somehow lead to the same place, happiness.
Where to find Richard Del Connor online
Where to buy in print
Tao of Taoism - Using the Dao Te Ching to Improve Your Life
by Buddha Zhen
Price: $8.88 USD. 10770 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on March 24, 2012. .
Buddha Zhen created this book in 1993 for his Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Gongfu and Taijiquan schools. After seeing the results and benefits from his students using the book, he created this new ebook version for his current Kung Fu and Tai Chi Students and new internet audience.
Learn to be in harmony with yourself and Nature as taught by Lao Tzu.
Father Earth - Mother Earth is Our Father
by Rachel Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 3420 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on March 24, 2012. .
Perhaps the new name, "Father Earth," will invoke and inspire more respect for our home planet. Rachel Connor suggests we combine the titles of "Mother Nature" and "Father Earth" to promote better care for our life source.
Rachel jokes, if you want to call it, "Petrified Turtle," she'll vote for that also.
Sid's Place - Tom Calder's life underground in the psychedelic sixties of California
by The Hippy Coyote
Price: $4.44 USD. 89960 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 29, 2012. .
1969, Tom Calder’s van is involved in a car crash, it’s loaded with kilos of marijuana. He runs from the law, he runs from a hitman, joins a rock band, lives on a commune, learns Tai Chi, drops acid (LSD), joins the underground railroad, trains in a Libya terrorist camp, bombs a police station, murders a prison rapist, and falls in love on a hippie commune in Northern California.
Shaolin Kung Fu Initiate (Buddhist Gongfu Candidate)
by Buddha Zhen
Price: $8.88 USD. 21490 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 29, 2012. .
The Shaolin Kung Fu Initiate book was written in 1995 to discourage incapable candidates from joining Shaolin Chi Mantis while enabling worthy disciples to pass the SCM Initiate Test.
Much of the Shaolin Kung Fu Beginner book is contained to provide a full understanding of the lifetime commitment to be made to Shaolin Chi Mantis.
Be a better disciple of whatever discipline you belong to.
Shaolin Kung Fu Beginner (Warrior Athlete)
by Buddha Zhen
Price: $8.88 USD. 19130 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 29, 2012. .
This is the required student manual of all students of Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Gongfu and Taijiquan schools. Written to be read over a 12-month period of three 4-month semesters, this book has been inspires a broad view of spirituality and focused view of Shaolin Kung Fu.
The Potatoe Valentine & Other Love Poems
by The Hippy Coyote
Price: $4.44 USD. 19240 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 18, 2012. .
Searching for answers from his past to unlock the success of his future, Coyote dug out his memories of past lovers and the women he'd lived with in the 1970s. He uncovered a wealth of romantic feelings. Unable to discover any guilt or blame he may have earned, Coyote emerged in a newborn passion for life, and a confidence in his abilities and compassion.
It's A Woman's World - Putting Men In Their Proper Place
by Rachel Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 12560 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 18, 2012. .
Rachel has found the way to save our world, end unemployment, and end all wars. By removing all men from the military and workplace, she has determined that equality is a reversal of the past. With men raising children and women filling all jobs, the world will become the Heaven it was intended to be. A new national religion? All Olympic sports would be restarted with the inheritances of...
Coyote In A Graveyard - The 1984 Screenplay
by The Hippy Coyote
Price: $4.44 USD. 26550 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 18, 2012. .
Thumper is a patient of a mental hospital where he falls in love with Elaine, a teen runaway that has been scooped up by the hospital to collect more government benefits.
The love affair becomes complicated when Elaine and Head Nurse have a homosexual affair. Thumper is kept under control with experimental dream therapy drugs because without drugs, he hallucinates, that other people can see also.
Autumn Flavours - First Season of Four Seasons of The Hippy Coyote's Life
by The Coyote
Price: $4.44 USD. 9840 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 10, 2012. .
Autumn Flavours is the adolescent poetry from 1968 to 1974 of Richard Del Connor, later known as The Hippy Coyote of American Zen. To comprehend human behavior he read about suicide, cannibalism, rape, murder, ghosts, and eternal love. Coyote outgrew these dark American horror stories. He stopped dating witches and Satanists, and hasn't watched the news or read a newspaper since then.
4 Decades Of Love - The Many Loves of Me
by The Hippy Coyote
Price: $4.44 USD. 9230 words.
Published by Richard Del Connor on February 6, 2012. .
From being a hippie in 1960s, recording engineer in 1970s, rock star photographer in1980s, and Mr. Mom in 1990s, Coyote created a musical biography of his loves and lovers. These lyrics include guitar chords above them so you can play along to his love songs. This romantic autobiography was compiled for a Freemason fundraiser he performed after becoming a 3rd Degree Master Mason in 2009.
Books
Winter Flowers - Book # 2 of 4 of the poetry book series: Season of Fours
by Richard Del Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 8440 words.
Published on February 29, 2012. Fiction.
Romantic naive ignorance. This is the book that finds you eating ice cream or chugging beers trying not to cry over the relationship that just broke up. You can't believe it. You dated, slept together, went to restaurants and movies. Had sex. Went to concerts together. Had sex. You enjoyed watching television shows together--then he/she dumped you. It was perfect... but it only lasted 3 weeks.
Tai Chi Beginner - Yang Style Tai Chi Short Form of Shaolin Chi Mantis Class Reading Manual
by Richard Del Connor
Price: $8.88 USD. 29880 words.
Published on February 29, 2012. Nonfiction.
This "Class Reading Manual" version of the original Tai Chi Beginner - Yang Style of Shaolin Chi Mantis book, has been designed for the ebook formats.
This book has improved the health and lives of over 300 students taught in Utah and California since its first 1992 publication in a maximum security prison.
The quintessential information of the original 1992-2011 class notebook is contained and co
Summer Forevers - Book #4 of 4 of the poetry book series: Season of Fours
by Richard Del Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 10070 words.
Published on February 29, 2012. Fiction.
This is book #4 of the poetry book series, Season of Fours, by Richard Del Connor. This poetry was written during the early 1980s before transforming into The Coyote in 1984.
Richard lived in Santa Monica and Venice Beach while writing this book about an endless Summer that lasted for several years as he worked for Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, and performed with his rock band, The Rich.
Spring Fevers - Book #3 of 4 of the poetry book series: Season of Fours
by Richard Del Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 9970 words.
Published on February 29, 2012. Fiction.
This book, Spring Fevers, was my escape from the confines of lyrics and an escape beyond my sexual moralities. This self-indulgent trip into an adult world of sex, was seeking to understand all the different possibilities, mistakes, rewards, and adventure into personal hidden dark secret desires... while learning how to satisfy my demanding 1970s sexmates.
Masonic Kung Fu - Book 1
by Richard Del Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 43950 words.
Published on February 8, 2012. Fiction.
In 2009, Richard Del Connor received his 3rd Degree in Freemasonry making him a "Master Mason." While studying to pass his "3rd Degree Proficiency Test," Richard discovered that a Kung Fu Form he taught was encoded with the secret hand signs and symbols of Modern Masonry. He wrote this novel about teens and a British Mason in China when the Japanese were invading in 1937 with facts he found.
Connor Black Hole Bubble Theory - Origins of Big Bang and Where Black Holes Lead To
by Richard Del Connor
Price: $4.44 USD. 4120 words.
Published on February 7, 2012. Nonfiction.
Discovered in the 1980s, Richard's "Black Hole Bubble Theory" is a larger view of our reality. Our universe is within a bubble within a black ocean of tar that we mistake for "black holes." Richard hopes to help Prof. Hawking with his Big Bang theories and provide the missing concepts that are befuddling today's theorists, astronomers, and scientists. A black hole is a hole in our bubble.
Richard Del Connor’s tag cloud
Richard Del Connor's favorite authors on Smashwords