When the body is urged by the senses to indulge its own desires and pleasures, the corrupted intellect readily succumbs and assents to its impassioned fantasies and impulses. But the regenerated intellect exercises self-control and withholds itself from them. Moreover, as a true philosopher it studies how to rectify such impulses. (Maximos the Confessor)

The Stoic - both pre-Christian and post-Christian - believed in self-discipline, and would often choose to withhold himself from joy.

The Epicurean - both pre-Christian and post-Christian - perceived a randomness beyond any control, and tended to over-indulge in pleasures as they were presented.

I do not perceive in the teaching and example of Jesus a rejection of the body, nor do I find a rigorous regimen for self-control.

Rather, I hear Jesus saying, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your heart and all your mind... and love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 24: 37-38) This is less philosophy for study than ethic for doing.

Love is less about self than other, less about forsaking and more about giving.