Translation of "Selbstkasteiung" in English

I think there is an important difference, apart from our extreme fondness for severe self-criticism.

Because self mortification: the tormenting of the flesh is a pain in the body.

Austerity, tapas: Performing sadhana, penance, tapas and sacrifice.

All self-flagellation is ego song-and-dance.

He was skilled at this sort of self-mortification and intense meditation.

Enlightenment lay in the “middle way,” not in luxurious indulgence or self-mortification.

He then went on to nearly starve himself to death in six years of practicing self-mortification.

Vegan living is not a sacrifice or self-abasement.

Nudity or deluded self-torture which is said as body art?

So it was self-projected; it was not projected towards others, but projected towards themselves.

He had an ascetic temperament, and imposed on his coworkers extreme poverty and great mortification.

In today's Netherlands, assertiveness is seen as a good thing, modesty as a form of self-chastisement.

In 1975, he went to Sehwan Sharif for self-mortification; he spent a period of three years in the mountains of Sehwan Sharif and the forest of Laal Bagh in self-purification, "for the sake of God's love".

On top of that, she had a lot of Jewish friends, a fact which contributed to her living in a constant dilemma between love and hate, self-castigation and repression.

In the commentaries 4 further kinds are enumerated, thus bringing the number to 32, as mostly counted, namely: talk about sensuous enjoyment, self-mortification, eternity and self-annihilation.

And yet, for a nonreligious critic such as myself, Athey’s work is somehow less troubling than seeing videos of contemporary Shia Muslims beating themselves bloody during the holiday of Ashura, less troubling than the history of Christian self-flagellation.

With impressive – and likewise gruesome – tricks of self-mortification by rods and fire, men and women of the Chinese community ask their gods for health and happiness.

There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable.

This is a time for rejoicing, not self-mortification, because the Kingdom is near.

It was all part of the self image and worldview to every day push a beloved bicycle uphill, or get up a good sweat, in a near-religious self-abasement – a sort of penance for a cleaner environment, to honour creation and following generations.

Nevertheless, after such a tormented life, a constant effort of mortification is necessary in order to remain faithful to the Gospel.

If we then inflate the negative self-image, we may morbidly fixate on feelings of self-mortification.

When he nearly died from weakness, he reconsidered his plan of action and discovered the Middle Way between the self-mortification he had put himself through and the self-indulgence he had known in his earlier life.