Jussi Luukkonen
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I'm a writer and a speakership coach passionate about curious exploration of life.
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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 Luukkonen11 months 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 Luukkonen11 months 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 Luukkonen11 months 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 Luukkonen11 months 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 Luukkonen12 months 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 Luukkonen12 months ago in Motivation
The Middle Way — A Buddhist View On Life
Brene Brown writes in her inspiring book 'Atlas of the Heart' that she is a mapmaker and traveller. In that extraordinary book about human emotions and their meaning, she introduces the concept of having a map of emotions. She refers to her discussion with Dr Kirk Goldsberry, a mapmaker and a cartography scholar. A map has two dimensions: space and place. Brown draws a map of our emotions, plotting them verbally on her map based on the longitudes and latitudes she found in her research.
By Jussi Luukkonen12 months ago in Motivation