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In its ZiXu, he said that he was "an ascetic" reincarnation, this invention, although it is but he has really very bitter.

The Master knew Hari's passion for Vedanta . But he did not wish any of his disciples to become a dry ascetic or a mere bookworm.

I shall never be an ascetic if she does not take the vow with me.

His companion was older, clean-shaved, with a lined ascetic face. His hair had been pulled back and tied in a knot behind his head.

Because he had just come out of his ascetic period here, and he still had a long face.

The anarchist is at least as solitary as the ascetic.

The notoriously ascetic generally personally lambasted European soldiers spotted idling in the garden.

Through suppression of desire, through mere control of the mind, through denial of his bodily needs, the ascetic makes himself insensitive.

Everything near seemed to have receded far away, leaving the still white figure of an ascetic steeped in deep meditation.

Aspiring to be a follower of the ascetic Sankara, he cherished a great hatred for women.

They developed quite a following, they were very ascetic, very strict, so they forbade marriage, and these sorts of things.

It is my firm resolve that if I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic.

It might have been Covenant, but they never varied from their big-ugly oblate blue-gray ascetic.

To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.

"an old man, very tall and spare, with an ascetic aspect" (William H. Mallock).

They became more ascetic during the Song and Ming dynasties, but this trend peaked at the end of the Cultural Revolution.

No, my friends, I shall never be an ascetic, whatever you may say.

Because in a small nook across that ascetic cell of a bedroom, Salinger kept a safe.

A Hindu ascetic, or sadhu, wrapped in a bright-red cloth, smokes underneath a vad (banyan) tree outside a temple in Mumbai (Bombay), India.

It's true Mondrian is forbidding, ascetic, pure, impersonal, ideal, clear beyond the mess of an ordinary life.

He was not exactly ascetic, but he despised luxury and all pursuit of artificial pleasures of the senses.

He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, and an ascetic aspect.

next , not desiring the wealth of this life , they will endure meditation in the mountains through their ascetic discipline and energy.

Namely, the scrolls were the product of a group of ascetic Jewish scholars living in nearby Khirbet Qumran.

When abstinence is the only choice, an ascetic frame of mind comes easy.

5 to exercise, enhanced physique, moderate to have sex, peacetime should quit ascetic, masturbating .

Identify some of the modern-day expressions of the ascetic, work-righteous, Word-denying errors described in verse 3.

the ascetic of religion could feel happy, even under extremely abominable living condition , which average citizen can't feel.

In the depths of the forest the ascetic practised penance with fast-closed eyes; he intended to deserve Paradise.

I shall never be an ascetic.

Through ascetic practices, people can become immortals , so they especially value the cultivation of long life.

Maybe such kind of life is something like an ascetic, but we should work hard and try hard in our youth, aren't we?

The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.

In short we cannot claim that these days of our retirement were passed in ascetic meditation.

An attractive body troubles even an ascetic spirit. But don't be deceived by hypocrites and false virtue. Deception is lying in wait.

That waggery of fate. . . banished the wild and ascetic heath lad to a trade. . .

Yet even those who carry on the most ascetic, pared-down existence depend on petroleum in some form or other.

We start the year like ascetic monks and by February we discover that the monastic life isn't for us.

Their fasts are more rigid, and their other ascetic exercises stricter.

Both an ascetic monk and a high-living playboy may assign 1000 units to a steak and 100 units to a potato.

But a man who lives a properly ascetic life is "Ponderosa Pine. "

And so did Miss Constance Schuyler, with her dim, ascetic beauty, seated at his side.

By that time, the two major disciplines for the sake of enlightenment were meditation and ascetic austerities.

Corruption was frowned upon and punished; indeed the Communist party's ethic was ascetic.

This phase had nothing to do with any ascetic feeling.

The eye is mine, ascetic, forms are mine, eye-contact and its base of consciousness are mine. Where can you go, ascetic, to escape from me?

But he wasn't offended. He simply smile and said, "I am indeed an ascetic person. "

Mr. Gordon, however, is no ascetic.

At times, so tightly did they draw, the mouth became stern and harsh, even ascetic.

the ascetic existence of monks and hermits.

First I went ascetic, soaking myself in Buddhism to extinguish my desires, to tear down the source of my aberrant nature.

In other news, your office mate isn't sipping water because of his ascetic character but because he has a hangover.

His thin, ascetic face mirrors an intensity of thought.

an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars.

In exomologesis, the sinner had to "kill" himself through ascetic macerations.

I'm not an ascetic, but I don't like that.

He did, in fact, become a dour ascetic.

Like his earlier work, the book reminds us that for Mr Thubron travel is a kind of ascetic discipline.

To the Japanese, this tree represents not ascetic beauty, but also transience melancholy, and the honor of graceful resignation.

(Hinduism) an ascetic holy man.

They are not ascetic, and consider fasting silly.

It's completely ascetic.

Paul and the good guys are all ascetic.

He lives an ascetic life.

They're anti-ascetic.

A person of ascetic habits.

Mental satisfaction is more permanent than that in flesh, which reflects the significance of ascetic role in Indian culture.

Why are you so ascetic?

You may put on the robes of an ascetic, join this society or that, leave one religion for another, try in various ways to be free;

Observention and nursing of therapy patients with malignant hydrothorax and ascetic fluid by central venous draining

christian - ascetic ideas no longer trouble us

the gaunt, ascetic figure of a saint

Be systematically ascetic. . . do. . . something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it- William James;

Dao Lang: I'm an Ascetic for Music

3 wisdom - with five rows of ascetic life

I am the foremost in ascetic virtues,