ascetic
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definition
noun
The composition of hymns of the Rig-Veda was done by Hindu recluses, ascetics , Rishis and Sages rooted in the realities of life inside the society.
a person who practices severe self-discipline and abstention.
adjective
an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor
characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
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While there is not too much on the theology of the cross, or on the phenomenon of monasticism, all authors speak from the reality of a crucified, 'ascetic' tradition.
The people communicate with him by way of 'ascetic' disciplines on certain sacred mountains.
His earlier life of self-indulgence had been unsatisfying, as was his six-year experiment with 'ascetic' penances.
My tastes are modest to the point of 'ascetic' austerity.
For Brendan, salvation is best accomplished through the monastic way, understood as a combination of 'ascetic' practices and liturgical observance.
Buddhism requires 'ascetic' behaviour, including fasting, by its monks, but not from other followers.
The seventies were very sleek and empty, more concerned with structure, form, and a certain kind of 'ascetic' rigorousness.
It will doubtless surprise some viewers to learn that the monks' daily routine is not dominated by the strict, 'ascetic' activities one might suppose.
True spirituality, or godliness, is found in everyday social relationships as well as in prayer, learning, or 'ascetic' practices.
Bernard's over-rigorous pursuit of 'ascetic' discipline adversely affected his health.
These three constitute the Supernal Triad - those spheres which are wholly outside the realm of direct human experience for all but the most disciplined and 'ascetic' individuals.
He himself lived a rigorously 'ascetic' life and observed the monastic precepts faithfully.
Yet the texts are firmly part of the later medieval world: the first two come from the writings of visionary women mystics and the last from a rigorously 'ascetic' monastic theologian.
I was simply fighting against what I perceived as biblical, doctrinal, and 'ascetic' fundamentalism.
Indeed most martial arts are based on the creations of Chinese 'ascetic' monks almost a thousand years ago.
Cornet always led a frugal and 'ascetic' life, able to live contentedly for weeks on end with the same menu of rice and dried fish.
The motive was mainly 'ascetic' , but was in part connected with the greater authority which, in antiquity, attached to such renunciation.
He walked away from every system of thought and every 'ascetic' setup that was offered to him as an alternative.
Nor will we gain any great wisdom through the more punitive, 'ascetic' methods.
Sufism emphasises the more mystical and 'ascetic' aspects of the religion.
With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic 'asceticism' .
A special sanctity often attached to religious hermits and saintly 'ascetics' , who were revered for their piety and sought out for the healing abilities of the blessed power attributed to them.
Resigning his see to write, preach, and travel, he lived 'ascetically' in London.
The 'ascetics' would go out and, with great exertion, meditate for months and years under a tree or leaning against a boulder.
Later, the Fuke school came to be composed primarily of wandering, non-ordained 'ascetics' who specialized in playing the shakuhachi flute.
They appear as often as not in religious contexts and associated with marginal Christian groups, whether 'ascetics' or heretics.
Mystics and 'ascetics' have been telling us for ages that the goal of life is to learn how to die.
The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict 'ascetics' on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.
Missionaries in the African churches, and probably elsewhere, were normally unmarried 'ascetics' living in the utmost simplicity.
This Pharisee was boasting, in other words, of an 'asceticism' beyond the norm.
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