asceticism

They contain a strong call to a life of personal piety and asceticism, including vegetarianism, teetotalism, and celibacy.

What's going on is some aspect of asceticism is being taught to these people and some of them seem to be giving into it.

Technological progress, not nostalgia or asceticism, is the only reliable way for greens' visions of "sustainability" to be sustained.

So they were practicing a certain kind of early asceticism and monasticism but with this very strong prophetic stream of it also.

In this sense, Zhu Xi's ethical stance, like that of most Song-Ming Confucians' pertained to rigorism, but not to asceticism.

In truth, the young woman had finally grown tired of the vanity of her life and felt ready at last to start a new life of asceticism.

In the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" , fakirs are religious believers who practice asceticism as a means of self-cultivation.

Now all the way through the beginning of Christianity we've seen that some Christians practiced asceticism.

"The problem 30 years ago was that doing something environmentally sound required asceticism and sacrifice, " Vaswani said.

secondly, Nietzsche thinks the asceticism is in disregard of human life. for your reference~~.

Its practitioners focus on personal sacrifice, hoping that their ideals and asceticism will spread like a religion.

But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.

And here's the clue that helps you see what's going on with the allure of asceticism for these ancient Christians.

Monasticism and Asceticism develop as important movements in the early Christian church.

Spiritual practitioners should shun the two extremes of indulgence and meaningless asceticism.

Someone think he is the sacrifice article of asceticism and demolish in the repugnance of the human nature and the divine nature.

None of this is a matter of principle or asceticism; it's just pure selfishness.

The tenants of the Order include fasting, celibacy, vows of silence and other forms of asceticism.

Gnostics often practiced excessive asceticism, because they believed that they were thus liberated by the spirit.

Her opposed the asceticism of devotion to sciences, advocated the gay science.

I should have known that monks practice asceticism . But he wasn't offended.

"Yes, but-but not too fond, " said Pansy with a trace of asceticism.

We can see that Christian asceticism, like ancient philosophy, places itself under the same sign of concern with oneself.

So the attitude of religious asceticism is exclusive in the passions.

Has been distorted at times: monasticism, asceticism.

Between asceticism and indulgence men and races swing.

They know what Paul's teaching, this radical asceticism, and Paul links this to the resurrection.

Although he had advised against ostentatious behaviour, Confucius had never been a puritan and he abhorred asceticism

Many miraculous stories of them are concerned with the Old Man Sophe's asceticism.

I am not speaking here about asceticism or abstinence.

3 - His ethic is a kind of proud asceticism, very similar to Nietzsche's.

The dualism origins of the ancient Christian asceticism

IV. The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism

Influences of Asceticism of Zhu and Cheng on the Plays of Late Ming Dynasty

On Criticizing the Traditional View of Marriage and Religious Asceticism

The Love under Asceticism in The Scarlet Letter and The Thorn Birds

V. Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism

I have torn off the garb of asceticism and hypocrisy

I have a face of asceticism