Diamond Temple Internal Martial Arts: A guide for practitioners cultivating the internal

Internal martial arts aim to cultivate the internal landscape, the energetic and the physical body, the mind, and the emotional and pain bodies. The beauty of internal martial arts is that their capacity for raising one’s level of awareness, for bringing mindfulness to practices of the arts, is so paramount and palpable, that its impacts can be felt in daily life. It can be tempting to treat internal martial arts as something interesting, another fun activity, and to classify it in the realm of hobby. Certainly practiced as a hobby, internal martial arts will produce benefits. However, the real potency of such practices can only be found in wholeness, meaning in a holistic approach to the principles and philosophy that in turn becomes a lifestyle. They prompt a reexamination of our assumed habits and an evaluation of whether our daily life is indeed life-affirming.Diamond Temple Internal Martial Arts is a component of Iron Mantis Martial Arts. When we consider martial arts generally we likely think of the external elements, fighting, sparring, drilling, and techniques, from stand-up to wrestling to the ground. We may also consider the accompanying conditioning, like strength and weight training. The Diamond Temple contains the other side of a martial artist's training, which is less spoken about, maybe because by some it is considered “the secret” or by others it is disregarded.The internal martial arts within the Diamond Temple include Qigong, Tai Chi, Meditation, Yoga, and other healing modalities. While many of the core philosophies and the lineage of the creators of the teachings stem through Northern Shaolin 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu, the Diamond Temple integrates several different lineages and teachings spanning over thousands of years. The well of the Diamond Temple runs deep, indeed, it is infinite by the nature of its content. This book is the lantern before the entry of the Diamond Temple. Read more