Buddha Zhen Discovers Secret Freemason Kung Fu
On June 6, 2009, Buddha Zhen discovered that one of the Kung Fu Forms he'd been teaching since 1984, was a Masonic Kung Fu Form. Embedded in the Kung Fu Form were the dugards and signs of a First Degree Entered Apprentice Mason. Followed by the Second Degree Fellowcraft symbols and then the Third Degree Master Mason ritual.
This was all that Buddha Zhen was confident of when he ended his two-hour Kung Fu workout all by himself. But he was fairly confident that the second section of the Masonic Kung Fu Form was the story of Grand Master Hiram Abif, who was murdered in King Solomon's Temple, long before Christ was born.
The following week, Buddha Zhen completed the storyline that was created out of the sequence of kicks and punches, adding more confidence to his speculation of its' Chinese origins.
The last week of June 2009, was the end of Buddha Zhen's annual Vision Quest. Every year, since 1994, when Buddha Zhen was invited to have his Vision Quest on the Pineridge Reservation, near Custer's last stand. He also saw the secret place where Crazy Horse was buried.
But the Lakota Sioux Chief said he'd had dreams and visions of Buddha Zhen, then known as Richard O'Connor or The Coyote. Buddha Zhen wore a beard, and the Lakota Chief taught him the Pipe Ceremony and with the gift and blessing of a Coyote pipe, given to Buddha Zhen, initiating him as a Pipe Carrier of the Lakota Sioux.
This year, 2009, perhaps the first ever, Buddha Zhen didn't attempt to plan or have a Vision Quest. The enlightenments of June 2009 were the result of a different meditation than the past decade of Junes. Buddha Zhen was now a Master Mason, having received his Third Degree in February 2009 at Burbank Masonic Lodge 406.
Buddha Zhen became the Organist of his home lodge, Panamericana 513 in 2009, where he first demonstrated and received the affirmation from the dozen Master Masons that this "Ling Po," or "Lian Bu," Chinese Kung Fu Form was indeed a Chinese Kung Fu Form for teaching and practicing the Freemasonry of Europe, in China during the occupation of the Japanese during the 1930s.
UPDATE: March 2010: Buddha Zhen has performed the "Masonic Kung Fu" Form for dozens more Master Masons, including the Grand Secretary, Lou Casalou. Only the Grand Lecturer of the California Freemasons remains, before Buddha Zhen has jpermission to perform and videotape a "Public Version" of this "Masonic Kung Fu" Form.
"Qi" is Correct. "Chi" is Incorrect.
Our Kung Fu school, Shaolin Chi Mantis was founded in 1992 by Buddha Zhen Shen-Lang, then known as Shifu Richard O'Connor.
- The school name is the mixture of the three styles of Chinese Kung Fu taught by Buddha Zhen:
- "Shaolin" Kung Fu
Tai "Chi" Chuan Yang Style
Northern Praying "Mantis" Kung Fu Boxing
The "Chi" of TAI CHI CHUAN should actually be "Ji" of TAIJIQUAN. "Taijiquan" is the correct Mandarin Chinese word. "Tai Chi Chuan" is the outdated and unused in China dialect of the Canton province known as, "Cantonese."
The "Qi" of Shaolin Qi Tanglang or Shaolin Chi Mantis is the "Qi" of "breath energy." This word is pronounced, "chee." It used to be translated from the Cantonese dialect as "Chi" but the Mandarin translation to our Arabic letters is, "Qi."
Finally, the word, "Mantis," is "TANG LANG," pronounced, "Tong Long," in Chinese.
So the accurate name for our Kung Fu school should be: Shaolin Qi Tanglang.
The American language has no word for breath energy, "Qi," or the "Chi" that we use.
The literal translation of SHAOLIN TEMPLE is "Young Forest Monastery."
"Tanglang," the praying mantis bug, is the only word translating easily to English to result in our main Kung Fu school name of SHAOLIN CHI MANTIS.
Thus, we end up with this website we have no current use for, until someone appreciates the "real" name of our Kung Fu school. One possibility for the future of this website is a special meeting place for practitioners of Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
We'll see.
