Jussi Luukkonen
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I'm a writer and a speakership coach passionate about curious exploration of life.
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Should You Be Devoted To Something — Or Is It Enough Just To Be Alive?
All religions have symbols, signs and external objects for believers to support their religious practices. We need those external reminders to focus on the doctrines and their application. Over time many of these religious symbols have become more secular and almost lost their spiritual origins.
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Motivation
A Buddhist Take On This Time
There is always a pattern and a cycle. Recently, the renowned billionaire and businessman Ray Dalio has been looking at the economic cycles. He coined the term 'one of those' when he saw a pattern emerging and sitting on a cycle surfaced from the data he had been researching.
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Motivation
Gregory Heist
He had been planning it for ages. The diamond ring of that old hag was irresistible. She put it on the little tray on the windowsill every morning. She never wore it – her fingers were bent and bony; she just looked at how the first morning rays glimmered from it.
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Fiction
The Three Best Ways To Predict The Future
Karma is a word that comes from the Sanskrit language meaning action. In Western thinking, karma has connotations about destiny and fixed outcomes. Or, it is often in kitchen philosophy linked to some esoteric external influence, almost like a force or divine function of the universe.
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Motivation
How I Escaped The Spiritual Deadlock
I was sitting on a train on my way to Hanover, Germany. It was a dark and muggy summer evening a long time ago. I was 16 years old and away from my home country, alone in the big wide world for the first time. It was exciting and, at the same time, scary.
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Motivation
Buddhism Is Reason, And Science is Reasoning
It is fascinating to see those fMRI pictures emerge and show how our brain pulsates when we think, feel or do something. The more details we know about our brain’s inner workings, the farther we seem to drift from the answer: what is Consciousness?
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Motivation
What Is The World You Live In Now?
In the Buddhist tradition, transformation is one of the key elements. Everything is in constant change, and being attached to anything is foolish. How these changes work is explained in the theoretical teaching of the Lotus Sutra. The Ten Factors describe the process and inner workings of life. In my blog, ‘Life Is Bigger Than Your Intelect’, I wrote about it.
By Jussi Luukkonen3 years ago in Motivation
