Original sentence: In its simplest form, it can mean merely denying oneself certain bodily pleasures, such as by abstaining from chocolate, from meat, from food generally (fasting), from alcohol, or from sex.Mortification of the flesh is difficult to understand from a modern secular perspective.Various forms of self-denial or voluntary suffering (commonly referred to as Ascetism) are practised in various ways by members of many religions, including Christianity (particularly Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic monks, and adherents of Opus Dei), Islam (particularly in Sufism and Shi'a Islam) and Hinduism (especially in the festival of Thaipusam).Various indigenous peoples also incorporated voluntary pain, suffering, and self-denial as part of their spiritual traditions as vehicles to the divine and/or rites of passage
Edited sentence: In its simplest form, it can mean merely denying oneself certain bodily pleasures, such as by abstaining from chocolate, from meat, from alcohol, or from sex.Modern secular man finds it difficult to understand the meaning of mortification of the flesh.Mortification of the flesh is practised in various ways by members of several different religions, including Christianity (particularly Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic monks, and adherents of Opus Dei), Islam (particularly in Sufism and Shi'a Islam) and Hinduism (especially in the festival of Thaipusam)