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LECTURES / SEMINARS   Zen Buddhism, Push Hands...   BUDDHA  ZHEN, Shen-Lang

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Workshop - All Levels
  Shaolin Spiritual Bootcamp

Seminar - Beginner
  Tai Chi Winter Seminar

Seminar - Intermediate +
  Tai Chi Qigong

Seminar - Intermediate +
  Tai Chi Staff

Seminar - Intermediate +
  Combat Taiji

Seminar - Intermediate +
  Tournament Tai Chi

Seminar - All Levels
  Push Hands

Seminar - All Levels
  Judging Seminar

Tournament - All Levels
SCM & TCY Summer Push Hands

Tournament - All Levels
SCM & TCY California Push Hands Championship

Tournament - All Levels
SCM & TCY Annual Chinese Gongfu & Taijiquan Tournament

Kung Fu and Tai Chi SEMINARS - WORKSHOPS are LISTED BELOW

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WORKSHOP - All Levels

Shaolin Zen Spiritual Bootcamp

Founder of Buddha Kung Fu, Buddha Zhen
Buddha Zhen representing China in the Annual Jordan Peace Gardens Event

Also advertised as "ZEN BOOTCAMP."

Created in 1998 for the Buddhism Conference in San Diego, California, this all-day workshop was originally designed for Buddhist Monks and advanced Buddhist practitioners.

We've REDUCED THE PRICE and REDUCED THE TIME to make this a workshop anyone can appreciate. Your life is under your control -- you are just unaware of it.

To schedule a full-day Shaolin Zen Spiritual Bootcamp, originally titled, Spiritual Bootcamp Shaolin Style, visit the website: www.spiritualbootcampshaolinstyle.com

Join Buddha Zhen on a discovery of your own soul to reveal and determine your path in life.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Bring your own laptop.

Topics: May be used as a "Book Seminar" to help students pass off on reading assignments required for their next Belt advancement.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com
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Topics: Self-Defense applications and 2-man choreographed routines of LIAN BU "Ling Po."
Sponsor: Shaolin Chi Mantis
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - Beginner

Tai Chi Winter Seminar

Buddha Zhen at GilGal Gardens.
Talk to the foot.

Bring your questions or just enjoy the ride as Buddha Zhen leads through many of the concepts and attributes of Taijiquan "Tai Chi."

"Whether you call it Buddhist Breathing or Daoist Qigong," explains Buddha Zhen, "It is mastering the energy already flowing within you. First, I make you aware of it. Second, I show you how to focus on it. Third, i teach students how to enhance it..."

Buddha Zhen is the first generation of not-Chinese to teach Yang Style Taijiquan, Shaolin Kung Fu, 7-Star Praying Mantis Boxing, and the Tai Chi Praying Mantis styles of Chinese martial arts, or Kung Fu.

Tai Chi requires years of contiuous effort and study to master. Enjoy this glimpse into possibilities and potentials of Tai Chi, "Taijiquan," the "Supreme Ultimate Boxing Style."

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Wear loose fitting cotton clothing, tennis shoes, plain shirts and sweaters without logos, advertisements or name brands written on them.
Kung Fu clothing preferred.

Topics: An overview of Tai Chi as exercise, therapy, and spiritual asset.
Sponsor: Shaolin Chi Mantis
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - Intermediate +

Tai Chi Qigong Meditation

Stop or you'll run into my foot.
Arch of the foot = palm of the hand.

Qigong, breathing exercises, qi energy flow... had all been developing for hundreds of years before the Daoists started construction of their Wudang Temple.

"Whether you call it Buddhist Breathing or Daoist Qigong," explains Buddha Zhen, "It is mastering the energy already flowing within you. First I make you aware of it. Second I show you how to focus on it. Third i teach students how to enhance it. However, in the fourth stage when you can move and manipulate your energy -- that's where the magic and the healing come into play."

Although you may need to be an Intermediate Level or Advanced Tai Chi practitioner to make use of many of these technigues, follow along and do your best. Beginners allowed.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: Qigong, Chi Kung, energy flow, body energy, life energy, sexual energy, mental energy...
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - Intermediate +

Tai Chi Staff

Buddha Zhen at Liberty Park Utah
Luohan Staff = Guardian of Heaven

Traditional Chen Taijiquan includes staff, spear and sword.

"Wood is my favorite Tai Chi weapon," explains Buddha Zhen. "Metal sucks my energy out -- with the exception of aluminum, but wood is easier to control or use while manifesting qi "chi" energy."

"When I broke my arm last year, I had planned to build it back up with my double broadswords, (shuang dao, or cern do). But it was my staff class that rebuilt my shoulder. It somehow has caught up and surpassed my left arm in strength again."

"I enjoy doing qigong when I'm with my staffs, spear, or wooden swords. Let me show you some of my qi energy discoveries."

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu
Bring your own staff or purchase from:
   Shaolin Chi Mantis

Topics: Using a wooden staff to perform and fight with Tai Chi increases your abilities and awareness.
Sponsor: Shaolin Chi Mantis
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - All Levels

Combat Taiji

Don't be a pushover.
Victory over a taller and stronger opponent.

When Yang Chen Fu stole the Chen Style Taijiquan, he proved it's value by beating up every prize fighter in his village.

Two of my Taijiquan Masters made me promise, as one said, "Don't turn this into yoga Tai Chi."

That was twenty five years ago and Buddha Zhen has kept his promise by expanding the Tai Chi instruction to include 57 required Qin Na techniques and that each student mush demonstrate three self-defense moves for each of the sixteen Tai Chi sections.

Several of Buddha Zhen's students have claimed that Tai Chi moves saved their lives in dangerous confrontations.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: How to fight with Tai Chi.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - Intermediate +

Tournament Tai Chi

Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Gongfu and Taijiquan
Sponsored by Shaolin Chi Mantis.

Tai Chi Youth not for profit education organization

How do you score points with Tai Chi?

Let Buddha Zhen show you how to improve and make use of the traditional concepts of Daoism and Taijiquan to improve your Tai Chi performance.

Bring your best Tai Chi to this seminar. Buddha Zhen guarantees he can improve something in your performance or style.

Learning to "see" and anallyze each other's Tai Chi will also help each participant to improve their own Form. Come and improve.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: How to perform and score higher performing Tai Chi in martial arts tournaments.
Sponsor: Tai Chi Youth
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - All Levels

Push Hands Workshop

Autumn Flavours POETRY BOOK by The Hippy Coyote
Pushing the Cross Up

This Push Hand Workshop is required to compete in our Push Hands Tournaments.

Without this class or Buddha Zhen's approval, we don't want to teach you Push Hands during the tournament.

Even if you you don't think you need this class -- well, no Push Hands enthusiast would pass up an opportunity to Push with some new people or learn tricks from Buddha Zhen Shen-Lang, the Spirit Wolf of Truth.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
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     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
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Topics: Two weeks of Push Hands training plus one Judging Seminar Tournament to practice in, plus the annual Buddha Kung Fu Summer Push Hands Tournament where students get to compete and be judges.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics:Two weeks of Push Hands training plus one Judging Seminar Tournament to practice in, plus the annual Buddha Kung Fu Summer Push Hands Tournament where students get to compete and be judges.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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SEMINAR - All Levels

Judging Seminar - FREE

Buddha Zhen performing Yang Style Taijiquan
Score by balance, focus, technique, attitude, character, personality, power, efficiency, effectiveness, and purpose. Go on. Do it!

These mock tournaments are fun and daring as students get to test their Forms and performance abilities.

What is even more important is that the judges learn the rules of Shaolin Chi Mantis and learn how to improve their judging skills before they make mistakes that could diminish a competition.

"Judging is much more difficult that performing," states Buddha Zhen. "Sure, I'm tense and spending extra time stretching and warming up and practicing before a competition, but then, once you've performed -- it's over! Whew! But not for the judges. They have to put every ounce of focus and concentration into EVERY competitor's performance -- and then do it again for a whole new set of competitors. Now that's hard work!"

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Send us an email
if you are a Kung Fu or Tai Chi Master,
interested in participating and learning the "Tournament Rules of Shaolin Chi Mantis."
We appreciate and encourage
as many Shifu as possible to attend
so you can train your students more effectively.

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Directions:  Yahoo map
Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: Entire tournament setup trains new recruits and verifies all items needed. Judges learn to judge. Competitors learn to compete.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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TOURNAMENT - All Levels

SCM & TCY Summer
Push Hands Tournament

Autumn Flavours POETRY BOOK by The Hippy Coyote
Payback is a push.

After several years of attending, competing, and judging in many statewide Karate tournaments of the nineties, Buddha Zhen decided to promote and sponsor his own "Kung Fu Only" tournaments, so that Kung Fu stylists would be more enthusiastic to compete and display their talents.

Push Hands however, became an event that Buddha Zhen encouraged the Utah Karate schools to attend. So, with the only qualification being to attend one of Buddha Zhen's Push Hands Workshops, the Shaolin Chi Mantis push hands tournaments grew even more.

This SUMMER PUSH HANDS TOURNAMENT was the first official Push Hands Tournament of Shaolin Chi Mantis and is still held each year wherever Buddha Zhen is residing.

The winners of this Summer Push Hands Tournament are 'seeded' for the upcoming SCM & TCY California Push Hands Championship held each September.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: An overview with many possible lessons to teach, depending upon the interests and questions of the students.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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TOURNAMENT - All Levels

SCM & TCY California
Push Hands Championship

Zhen Ming-Mou and Zhen Song-Dao
The original translation for "Karate" was "Chinese Hand," referring to the power and versatility of the open hand instead of a fist. Tai Chi Pushing Hands teaches students to win physical battles without pummeling or breaking their knuckles.

The First, Second, and Third Place winners of the Summer Push Hands Tournament are the 'seeded' champions of this tournament.

Until the the third, seccond, and first place competitions are held in each division, the Summer Tournament champions will be able to wait until it is time to "defend their title."

Shaolin Chi Mantis and Tai Chi Youth tournaments are STATIONARY PUSH HANDS competitions. A person loses by lifting one foot off the ground. A hand touching the ground also is a loss.

Winning is based on balance, Tai Chi skills, and flexibility. Strategy, deception, and speed are also beneficial. Come to our Push Hands Seminars to learn all the good band and dirty tricks of Push Hands.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: Championship Tournament featuring winners of previous Buddha Kung Fu Summer Push Hands Tournament held each July.
Sponsor: Buddha Kung Fu
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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TOURNAMENT - All Levels

SCM & TCY Annual Chinese
Gongfu & Taijiquan Tournament

Autumn Flavours POETRY BOOK by The Hippy Coyote
Talk to the foot.

After starting his Push Hands tournaments, Buddha Zhen, received funding from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Utah Arts Council, and many other Salt Lake City donors, to launch the first KUNG FU TOURNAMENTS ever held in Utah.

Buddha Zhen also sought to bring more harmony and friendship between the half dozen Kung Fu schools in Utah by encouraging them to perform exhibitions of their school styles at these events.

Contact Buddha Zhen or the SCM Tournament Director for details on your Kung Fu school performing at our annual tournament.

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Class Location:  Crescenta Valley Park
     3901 Dusnmore Ave.
     La Crescenta, California  91214

Requirements: Kung Fu clothing or long-sleeved shirts or sweaters from CafePress.com:
    www.CafePress.com/buddhakungfu

Topics: Chinese Kung Fu styles and Tai Chi styles compete in Forms, weapons, and choreographed fighting techniques.
Sponsor: Shaolin Chi Mantis
Email Contact:  Buddha Zhen
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