Zen Podcast of Buddha Zhen

Opening Song: “Tai Chi Magic” from Tai Chi Magic 1 album by Buddha Zhen. https://www.shaolinrecords.com/RecordStore-R/taichiMagic1R.html Buddha Zhen Shen-Lang “Spirit Wolf of Truth” explains the history of the Yang Tai Chi Chuan Short Form he teaches in his Shaolin Chi Mantis classes. He mentions his teachers, Shifu Ru Jing Shi, Shifu Marshall Ho. He also mentions the book, Showdown in Oakland, by his Sihing Rick L. Wing at the San Francisco Jing Mo school of Grandmaster Wong Jack Man. He...

Buddha Zhen slams the current Shaolin Temple and the monks he knows that graduated from there. He says that of the three that he knows who started actual schools in Los Angeles, none of them teach Zen Buddhism. Buddha Zhen says the American view of Shaolin Kung Fu is like children who love McDonalds for dinner. “They just don’t know better. Americans don’t know what Shaolin Kung Fu is. They see all these Shaolin fighters beating people up and fighting in tournaments… but that is not what...

Buddha Zhen slams the current Shaolin Temple and the monks he knows that graduated from there. He says that of the three that he knows how started actual schools in Los Angeles, none of them teach Zen Buddhism. Buddha Zhen says the American view of Shaolin Kung Fu is like children who love McDonalds for dinner. “They just don’t know better. Americans don’t know what Shaolin Kung Fu is. They see all these Shaolin fighters beating people up and fighting in tournaments… but that is not what...

Buddha Zhen has been teaching Shaolin Zen Buddhism since 1984. This became a business in 1992 when he was hired by the Governor of Utah to teach in a maximum security prison. During this time he wrote the book, Tai Chi Beginner, which he uses as the first semester book in all three of his Kung Fu schools: Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu & Taoist Tai Chi ChuanBuddha Kung FuTai Chi Youth Tai Chi Beginner is a 16-chapter book used to teach the 16-sections of the Yang Tai Chi...

I've got a list of all the topics and books I want to discuss with you. Let's start with the TAI CHI BEGINNER book by Buddha Zhen Shen-Lang "Spirit Wolf of Truth." (That's me!) I've used this book in EVERY program I've taught since 1992. This edition I'm reading was published in 1994. I'm always impressed by what I wrote then before I was mentored in Taoism for several years and spent a year attending weekly Taoist services at a Taoist Temple. I'm also impressed by the Zen Buddhism / Chan...

Buddha Zhen is resurrecting some podcasts he was recording in his car a year ago. Now Buddha Zhen is indoors videotaping his Traditional Shaolin Kung Fu classes of Shaolin Chi Mantis. He's got 200 classes on video with another 100 to complete his BEGINNER PROGRAM of Shaolin Chi Mantis. Buddha Zhen explains he never allowed anyone over the age of 50 in his Shaolin Kung Fu classes. Now BZ is 67 years old and appreciating the difficulties of backwards somersaults in his current lessons to be...

The Tao of Taoism was written in the late 80s and completed in the early 90s after deciding to re-create it in a new form. The original draft of the book was in rolled up scrolls. This book, Tao of Taoism, became a steppingstone to create the other books of Shaolin Chi Mantis for the Tai Chi Chuan and Shaolin Kung Fu programs. Buddha Zhen reads from the Tai Chi Beginner book. These books combine Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism into inspiring mental concepts as his students master the...

Buddha Zhen tells several stories about the birth of the original Shaolin Chan Buddhism in China; then about becoming the founder of Shaolin Zen in 1994 in Salt Lake City, Utah. BZ reads a letter of recommendation from the Decker Lake Maximum Security Prison in Salt Lake City where he taught a couple years. Buddha Zhen says he shot Section 19, Lesson 3 of the Shaolin Chi Mantis WHITE SASH belt rank level of the Shaolin Chi Mantis BEGINNER PROGRAM. Buddha Zhen concludes by promoting his TAI...

Buddha Zhen talks about how Buddhism is a group of people called a Sangha. Accordingly: Buddha Zhen and all the listeners on the Internet comprise an INTERNET SANGHA. Each of the Zen podcasts contains readings from the Tai Chi Beginner book which in this episode starts at the beginning of the book written by Buddha Zhen. Buddha Zhen then gives an update on the creation and building of the Shaolin Chi Mantis online school at www.shaolininteractive.com The podcast ends with a song from his Tai...

Buddha Zhen is excited to relaunch the Zen Buddhist Podcast of Shaolin Zen as he explains he is the founder of Shaolin Chi Mantis which is the school this sect of Buddhism emerged from in 1994.