Asceticism is the practice of austere self-discipline, voluntary undertaken, in order to achieve a higher or spiritual ideal. The term is derived from the Greek askein, which in the time of Homer meant, "to practice an art or skill.
Asceticism
A method of altering the state of one's consciousness through the avoidance of comfort and pleasure; when extreme, may become masochism.
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Theosophy and Asceticism
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From the practical viewpoint, it does not ask man to eschew and flee from the world in the spirit of asceticism; a course repugnant to a large number of modern minds, ...
First, an asceticism of the body. Not the asceticism that Corbin so vehemently attacks, the furious, rejecting asceticism that creates a chasm between the object of love and the transcendence that is imminent in it.
On the purification of the body I have not time to dwell, but I may remind you that according to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita it is by way of moderation that this purification is accomplished and not by self-torturing asceticism, ...
The Essenes--the most prominent of the early Syrian sects--were an order of pious men and women who lived lives of asceticism, spending their days in simple labor and their evenings in prayer.
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A number of groups prepared for the event with an asceticism reminiscent of Cathar dualism.
However it needs to be said that asceticism is not the same as simplicity. Asceticism renounces possessions. Simplicity puts them in proper perspective because it reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
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the evocation of spirits, the charging of talismans, and similar operations were explored, and Mathers and his associates observed that the preparations demanded by the ancient grimoires to conduct these rituals often amounted to feats of asceticism ...
Her intricate weaving of devotion, world-denying asceticism, and occult symbolism enriches the Vinayagar Agaval with the versatility of the Tamil Siddha tradition.
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