Hi. I will post if I feel that I can benefit someone, or have a question about something.
I have studied ceremonial magick, yoga, advaita vedanta, zen, runes, remote viewing, chaos magick, wicca, chi gung, energetic healing, remote healing, clairvoyance, clairaudience, etc. Currently I am doing research on the Simon Necronomicon current, various divination methods, and experimenting with tulpa creation.
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I have studied variously for about 18 years. Each topic minimally for a few months using it until I could get some good results and benefits, verify that they work, then moving on to other things.
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manonthepath
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Hi and welcome! I would be grateful if you would share some of your experience with Qigong as well as your journey into Zen meditation. Have you encountered anything interesting regarding Shugendo in any of your travels? Thanks and again, welcome.
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Thanks guys 
I have not studied Shugendo, however upon looking it up I see it is a mixture of several different paths including Vajrayana Buddhism, which I have studied and done a bit of practice with, and Taoism, which I have read about and contemplated upon. I do not know what particular practices are common between them.
With qigong I did standing postures (no teacher). What I got from that was learning to turn my awareness inward through my body and sense/move energy on a more refined level. A place I worked for a while I met a guy who said his uncle was a trainer for the US Olympic Tai Chi team. He showed me some basic chi movement exercises which I practiced for a while, since he saw me meditating every day on my lunch break, and that was something he was interested in learning about, so we shared some ideas.
With zen, I did lots of reading and compared it to other meditation practices, and found many parallels. I have been one to skip past theory and get to the practical application or use of a system. The best system I have come across so far that encompasses that whole range of philosophy and technique from beginner to enlightenment is from a teacher name of Shinzen Young. He has material available on Youtube as well as free downloads on his website. I like his material the best because he addresses the techniques in a quite non-religious way, focusing on various methods. He is also one of the few who expounds upon the traps and problems one might come upon in those practices and how to work through them.
I have not studied Shugendo, however upon looking it up I see it is a mixture of several different paths including Vajrayana Buddhism, which I have studied and done a bit of practice with, and Taoism, which I have read about and contemplated upon. I do not know what particular practices are common between them.
With qigong I did standing postures (no teacher). What I got from that was learning to turn my awareness inward through my body and sense/move energy on a more refined level. A place I worked for a while I met a guy who said his uncle was a trainer for the US Olympic Tai Chi team. He showed me some basic chi movement exercises which I practiced for a while, since he saw me meditating every day on my lunch break, and that was something he was interested in learning about, so we shared some ideas.
With zen, I did lots of reading and compared it to other meditation practices, and found many parallels. I have been one to skip past theory and get to the practical application or use of a system. The best system I have come across so far that encompasses that whole range of philosophy and technique from beginner to enlightenment is from a teacher name of Shinzen Young. He has material available on Youtube as well as free downloads on his website. I like his material the best because he addresses the techniques in a quite non-religious way, focusing on various methods. He is also one of the few who expounds upon the traps and problems one might come upon in those practices and how to work through them.
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manonthepath
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I've just finished watching Shinzen Young's Youtube introduction. He seems to have quite a bit to offer and I thank you for bringing him to my attention. I look forward to growth. Again, welcome to the forum.
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Welcome, and thank you