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Glossary
- Martial Arts
- Various fighting methodologies, both empty-handed and with weapons, that are concerned with formalized techniques of injuring or killing an attacker in the most efficient manner with the least harm to oneself.
- Meditative stillness
- A level of accomplishment in meditation where the practitioner’s mind becomes exceptionally quiet and rests relaxed and centered within itself.
- Metal element
- In Chinese cosmology, one of the basic energies or elements from which all manifested phenomena are created.
- Middle burner
- Located in the torso between the solar plexus and the lower tantien. The energy that exists in this middle area of the body coordinates and harmonizes the chi of the upper and lower burners, which lie above and below the middle burner.
- Middle tantien
Also known as middle dantian. One of the three major energy centers in the body. Two separate places are considered to be the middle tantien. They are located near each other, each governing different energetic functions. The point located at the solar plexus just below the sternum is responsible for the physical functions of the middle internal organs of the body (liver, spleen, and kidneys), as well as the will to persevere. The point located near the heart on the central channel governs physical, emotional, mental, psychic, or causal relationships.
- Mok gar (mo jia in Mandarin)
- A Southern Shaolin fighting style from Canton province.
- Monkey boxing (hou chuan)
- A martial art system that mimics the movements of a monkey, which is known for viciousness in fighting, as well as for jumping, rolling, and extremely deceptive movements.
- Moving meditation
- Any method of meditation wherein a practitioner is able to actualize the goals of meditation (including stilling the mind) while the body is in continuous motion.
- Mudra (seal)
- A hand/finger/body position that automatically activates a person’s energy channels in a specific fashion or creates a particular mind or psychic state in the practitioner.
- Muslim hsing-i
- A specific style of hsing-i.
