Beliefs > Asceticism
One who believes in the lifestyle of asceticism is an ascetic.
A lifestyle characterized by extremely sparse living and the renunciation of all material object. In one of his first sermons, the Buddha renounced extreme asceticism as unnecessary. It was the intent of the Buddha that physical objects were not to be of importance in an individuals life, but that it was unnecessary to punish the body with starvation and feats of endurance to attain enlightenment.
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