Richard Del Connor

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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 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 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," was created for teaching and practicing European masonry to Chinese males in the 1930s, when Chinese were prohibited from becoming freemasons.

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

Books

Human Values for Success in Family and Business - Book #1 of 4 of the Human Values... self-development series. (Year #1 of 4)
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 16,680. Language: English. Published: March 24, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Business ethics, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Family relationships
Based upon the teachings of Confucius, Richard Del Connor "Buddha Zhen," has created a series of four books to be studied over four years with weekly lessons that coordinate with the lessons and bookwork of his Shaolin Chi Mantis, Buddha Kung Fu, and Tai Chi Youth nonprofit schools. People can be more successful and plan better marriages with this planning guide for family and business.
Winter Flowers - Book # 2 of 4 of the poetry book series: Season of Fours
Series: Season of Fours, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 8,400. Language: English. Published: February 29, 2012 . Categories: Poetry » Biography, Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
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
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 29,880. Language: English. Published: February 29, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Taoist, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Exercise
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
Series: Season of Fours, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 10,050. Language: English. Published: February 29, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » American philosophy, Poetry » Spiritual
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
Series: Season of Fours, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 9,950. Language: English. Published: February 29, 2012 . Categories: Poetry » Biography, Poetry » LGBTQ+
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.
History of Zen from A to Z - Including the Meaning of Life, Creation of Heaven, Hell, Humans and Earth...
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 30,880. Language: English. Published: February 18, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Civilization, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Buddhism » Zen
Co-written by Satan? Richard says he'll be glad to take full credit. Either way, it is a new view of human history and the history of our entire universe. This unusual version of history starts with God alone, and ends with the creation of Zen Buddhism by Bodhidharma, with Satan alongside. The Garden of Eden, creation of Heaven, and the Tower of Babel are included in Satan's stories.
Masonic Kung Fu - Book 1
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 50,260. Language: English. Published: February 8, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » War
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
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,180. Language: English. Published: February 7, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Cosmos, Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Physics / Astrophysics
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.
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