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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]].

'''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]] methods and practices of asceticism may include 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.

'''Asceticism''' involves self-control, self-denial, self-discipline; also in [[religion]] '''ascetical''' methods and practices of asceticism may include 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.

The Greek [[philosophy]] of [[Stoicism]] proposed by [[Zeno]] of Citium is an '''ascetical''' approach to life, intended to free the individual from the slavery of [[addiction]] to [[licentiousness|licentious]] sensuality; opposed by the philosophy of [[Hedonism]] championed by [[Epicurus]] in his doctrine of [[Epicureanism]].

The Greek [[philosophy]] of [[Stoicism]] proposed by [[Zeno]] of Citium is an '''ascetical''' approach to life, intended to free the individual from the slavery of [[addiction]] to [[licentiousness|licentious]] sensuality; opposed by the philosophy of [[Hedonism]] championed by [[Epicurus]] in his doctrine of [[Epicureanism]].