Word: asceticism
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Reductions. Despite their remarkable accomplishments, the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, and the order was disbanded for 41 years. The suppression grew out of a convergence of hatreds. The anticlerical freethinkers of the Enlightenment detested the Jesuits. So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical...
Like Ramakrishna's ascetic but joyous Vedanta (which is once again growing in the U.S.), the Hindu imports of today tend to concentrate on various meditative disciplines. The most famous is the transcendental meditation of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose early converts were the Beatles. TM is, however, a...
To say that technopolitan man is pragmatic means that he is a kind of modern ascetic. He approached problems by isolating them from irrelevant considerations by bringing to bear the knowledge of different specialists, and by getting ready to grapple with a new series of problems when these have been...
No venerable ascetic in flowing white beard and robes, the latest star from the East to hit the guru circuit is a plump, cherubic 14-year-old, lightly mustachioed with peach fuzz, his neatly trimmed black hair slicked back. He dines on vegetables-liberally supplemented by mounds of Baskin-Robbins...
...overcoming the misunderstanding which arises from the word "meditate". To many people this brings to mind a long period of ascetic or reclusive training which builds up to an eventual Spiritual reward. Maharishi and his students make a conscious effort to dispel this image of mystical asceticism. They explain in lectures that while the technique "is as ancient as mankind." Transcendental Meditation differs significantly from the practices of other groups in the contemporary American spiritual renaissance. TM is not a religion or a cult, but a practical mental technique easily learned...