Amanda Pilke tells how she found her inner peace in Buddhism.
Amanda Pilke got sick with an eating disorder when she was young. Matti Matikainen
Pearls and pigs – the actor who starred in the movie Amanda Pilke, 33, tells in a recent interview with the magazine Voi või how he got exhausted when he was only 22 years old. Pilke also fell ill with orthorexia, i.e. an eating disorder, which is based on a compulsive need to eat as healthy as possible.
The actor decided to refuse all the roles that were offered to him. This scared Pilket a lot.
– I wasn’t sure what would be left of me if I gave up my identity as an actor, Pilke recalls to the magazine.
Pilke soon met through mutual friends Velimatin, his current spouse. Velimatti was already a Buddhist at that time.
After a year of dating, Velimatti hoped that Pilke would explore his inner world and Buddhism more closely.
Today, Velimatti Rauhainmaa and Amanda Pilke are both Buddhists. Matti Matikainen
– I hadn’t been able to stop and think about things very deeply before. I had swept my problems and difficult feelings under the carpet, he states in the magazine.
Today, Pilke is also a Buddhist. Religion has made his life better.
– I got a new life. I never would have guessed where the leap into the unknown would take me, Pilke says in an interview.
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