Act Zen to Be Zen: Created for actors to achieve their best performance and return to their best self.

By Richard Del Connor, Buddha Zhen, Buddha Z

This book was written in 2003 for his daughter who said she wanted to be an actress. Richard Del Connor also publishes books under the author name, Zhen Shen-Lang, Buddha Zhen, and Buddha Z. This book has been available for free since 2005 as webpages at www.ActZen.com Hopefully many actors have been enlightened and suicides avoided by using this online book now being published in 2022 in paperbacks and hardcover with some updated comments referring to his new psychology behavior system the “5 Soul Theory” of 2018.

This Act Zen to Be Zen book combines the “Director's Notebook” developed during his “Master Acting” and “Master Directing” classes at UCLA. This movie director system that Richard Del Connor uses for each project includes many of the questions used in his Tai Chi Chuan and Shaolin Kung Fu classes for character and spiritual development of his students. These questions are pulled from the Chinese Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism taught in his Shaolin Chi Mantis Traditional Buddhist Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan schools.

Life is acting.

What you think is natural is your unnatural programming. So all things are unnatural—unless you give up all control. Fortunately, we control even the most natural of our body functions. So we live unnaturally. This is natural—to us.

Decide what your programming is. Be unnatural on purpose. Then, decide this is natural.

Now, what is natural to you, is what you unnaturally decided—so let's REDEFINE NATURAL. This way, everything you do, whether it's normal, weird, flamboyant, or conservative—is natural—because you decided what natural is.

Join me, Buddha Zhen Shen-Lang, founder of the shaolinZEN.org Buddhist CyberTemple as I help you redefine what your reality is.