Thus to live an ascetic lifestyle (to me) means: To train yourself to become stronger, to need less, and to become less dependent on fate and external things. And the self-training to become stronger is to refuse things which distract you, and take away your power.

His audience consisted of five ascetics who had been his former companions: Kondañña, Assaji, Bhaddiya, Vappa, and Mahānāma….Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta.

n. a character trait or lifestyle characterized by simplicity, renunciation of physical pleasures and worldly goods, social withdrawal, and extreme self-discipline.

Hereby my guide on becoming as ascetic:

1. Think of a reason that shall motivate you on your ascetic journey.
2. Adopt a healthy diet, even at the cost of your food being of less taste.
3. Attempt to be as less socially active as you can.
4. Practice voluntary isolation.
5. Dedicate your ascetic-based lifestyle on a goal.
6. Live simply.

The religious asceticism also gave the businessmen industrious workers, and assured him that inequality was part of God’s design. Thus, one of the major elements of the spirit of modern capitalism, rational conduct based on the idea of a calling, was “born” from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

German sociologist Max Weber, in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–05), held that the Protestant ethic was an important factor in the economic success of Protestant groups in the early stages of European capitalism; because worldly success could be interpreted as a sign of eternal salvation, it …