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'''Ascesis''' is the voluntary exercise of self-discipline, from [[Greek]] ''askesis'', from ''askein'' "to exercise"; rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint; the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses; usually for some [[purpose]], to fulfill some [[goal]].
'''Asceticism''' involves self-control, self-denial, self-discipline; also in [[religion]] including extremes of severe self-denial, as forms of [[penance]] or as [[devotion]], for the purpose of overcoming slavery to bodily passions, or adopted as an expression of contempt for or rejection of the primacy or reality of bodily material existence, emphasizing the ''ephemeral'', transitory, impermanent nature of temporary (''temporal'' "time-conditioned", ''contingent'') physical life and existence, sometimes to express the belief that matter is an illusion; sometimes practiced as a form of inducing a [[Mysticism|mystical]] state.
Both [[Buddhism]] in the [[Noble Eightfold Path]] and the Letters of [[Saint Paul]] in the [[Christianity|Christian]] [[New Testament]] (e.g. Colossians 2:8-23) warn against extremes of ascetical practice which may in reality be rooted in [[Motivation|motives]] of [[Pride]] and [[Elitism]], in the mistaken belief that such measures express genuine [[spirituality]] in contrast to the majority of [[sin]]ful and [[Fall of man|fallen]] [[Mankind|humanity]].
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[[category:Hinduism]]
[[category:Buddhism]]
[[category:Monasticism]]
[[category:Christianity]]
[[category:Heresies]]
'''Asceticism''' involves self-control, self-denial, self-discipline; also in [[religion]] including extremes of severe self-denial, as forms of [[penance]] or as [[devotion]], for the purpose of overcoming slavery to bodily passions, or adopted as an expression of contempt for or rejection of the primacy or reality of bodily material existence, emphasizing the ''ephemeral'', transitory, impermanent nature of temporary (''temporal'' "time-conditioned", ''contingent'') physical life and existence, sometimes to express the belief that matter is an illusion; sometimes practiced as a form of inducing a [[Mysticism|mystical]] state.
Both [[Buddhism]] in the [[Noble Eightfold Path]] and the Letters of [[Saint Paul]] in the [[Christianity|Christian]] [[New Testament]] (e.g. Colossians 2:8-23) warn against extremes of ascetical practice which may in reality be rooted in [[Motivation|motives]] of [[Pride]] and [[Elitism]], in the mistaken belief that such measures express genuine [[spirituality]] in contrast to the majority of [[sin]]ful and [[Fall of man|fallen]] [[Mankind|humanity]].
[[category:Dictionary]]
[[category:Religion]]
[[category:Hinduism]]
[[category:Buddhism]]
[[category:Monasticism]]
[[category:Christianity]]
[[category:Heresies]]