1. Even the most extreme forms of self-mortification have ancient parallels.

2. He now embarked upon a course of extreme "self-mortification".

3. He practiced a Middle Way between self-mortification and self- indulgence.

4. Religious fanatics into self-mortification who have banded together to travel to the Holy Lands, armed with a mace.

5. Suffice it to say that he subsequently asserted that no one else had ever gone to such extremes of self-mortification.

6. It would have been easy, in comparison, to continue with his self-mortification, easy to become more and more famous, easy to attract great numbers of disciples.