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    En-Lovely: Victory over Weaknesses
    En-Lovely: Victory over Weaknesses
    En-Lovely: Victory over Weaknesses
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    En-Lovely: Victory over Weaknesses

    By Seko Ong

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    En-Lovely: Victory over Weaknesses presents a portrait of the workings of a beautiful mind. Suffering becomes meaningful when we are able to respond to it with love and compassion. We can never be reduced to nothing when we do not lose the freedom to choose beauty in any circumstance. Joy is found in a beautiful mind that chooses to extract value from each incident; it is found abundantly in simple things. When we choose to cause love to be one with all things, love becomes our experience.

    En-Lovely is a collection of articles seeking to inspire you to view life through a lens of pure love. Inspired by stories of the excellence of the human spirit and humbled by their resilience, Seko Ong shares how, by simply shifting our mind-sets, we can reveal the four virtues of the Buddhatrue self, happiness, purity, and eternity. Every essay is an expression of victory over weaknesses, written through the lens of gratitude.

    En-Lovely takes you on a journey to train your mind to tell all stories from the bright side. En-Lovely is to be one with love, where love is you and you are love. When you are love, everything that flows through you becomes lovely.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press AU
    Release dateMay 19, 2014
    ISBN9781452514024
    En-Lovely: Victory over Weaknesses
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    Seko Ong

    Seko Ong, a humanistic educator and motivator for more than twenty-two years, encourages her students to challenge their limits and not limit their challenges. Her gift in bringing the best out of the participants stems from her belief that we are all capable of reaching the lengths of omnipotence. She currently lives in Australia.

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      En-Lovely - Seko Ong

      1

      Inner brilliance is a language that can only

      be understood by a mind of Gratitude

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      Edge Gratitude Out [EGO]

      Experiencing gratitude is the express-dial-direct line to connect to our being. Our lesser self (ego) thrives on comparison. Abundance can only be extracted and invited by getting in touch with gratitude. Gratitude is independent of people’s opinion, experience, circumstance, and situation. Gratitude is a pure fountain of joy. The joy gushes out forcefully, elevating the most distressful pain. Hope solidifies into iron determination, to will oneself to live each moment with invigorating spirit.

      Anna walked into the hall and shook the people’s hands as they extended them out to greet her. Very graciously, she touched them all but always paused briefly enough to connect with their eyes. Brief though it may have been, I sensed a deep, compassionate force engulfed my being. Even though I didn’t know her, her spirit recognised me instantly. She went up to the podium and related the most soul-gratifying story I’ve ever heard. Anna’s village was under attack. She was one of the thousands who witnessed and suffered the abominable cruelty of human beings. Innocent people were caught, imprisoned, and tortured, simply out of a conflict which wasn’t even about them. She saw her daughter being raped and killed.

      A mother’s greatest sorrow is to see her own child die before her. Not in this manner. Tragic! Awfully tragic, said Anna. After the ordeal, Anna came out broken. She was so wounded by this chapter of her life that trust was a language she had buried with her daughter. She held a deep grudge and mistrust. All she wanted was just to survive until the day her soul was called to rest. Nothing interested her. She was eager to kill any form of happiness by herself, rather than to be taken away mercilessly by others. Life became a battle of will—the will just to get through the day. Nothing else mattered. Life was grey, and she preferred it that way. Because this way, the pain of being hurt again would not, and did not hurt as bad. Any form of kindness was never reciprocated.

      Why should I? Life owes me this, and I’m taking it! Don’t expect me to give! reflected Anna. Her ego got in the way. She argued with anyone who suggested to her that life would get better, and she loathed anyone telling her to look on the bright side. She was quick to proclaim how life had betrayed her and killed the dream she’d dreamed. But this was about to shift. Puja sat across from Anna at the canteen of the factory where they worked. Puja had started work at the factory almost a year ago. Anna noticed that Puja had a sparkle about her that she couldn’t fathom, and she felt drawn to Puja. Whenever Puja was nearby, Anna was less reactive and defensive. They became friends. Anna found a confidante to unload all her pain. Puja listened attentively; cried when the tragedy got too strong; gave Anna her shoulder to lean on; nodded when she needed approval; laughed when she joked. And at times, Puja simply sat silently beside her when talking about her pain wasn’t possible. Puja never spoke much. Her presence was soothing enough for Anna.

      One afternoon, during Anna’s routine venting of her life’s hardships, Puja extended her hands to embrace Anna. Puja’s sleeves fell to her elbow and revealed a scar marked with a series of numbers. Anna took a closer look and confirmed that it resembled a serial number. As Anna examined Puja’s face, there was another scar, marked with foreign writing unfamiliar to Anna. Puja, when asked by Anna, shared her traumatic experience as a child slave. Puja was sold to the illegal child trade and forced to prostitute her body at age eleven. At fifteen, she attempted to run away but was recaptured. They marred her face and coded her, so that even if she escaped, she would be tracked down. Even if she were not to be tracked down, with a scarred face, her future would be doomed.

      Every hurt, wound, pain, and suffering brought Puja closer to her light within, because she refused to be defeated by the pain inflicted on her. She refused to let hatred overwhelm her, even though many times it seemed she could lose the battle within. Her healing began when she turned towards gratitude. Puja embodied that being grateful for the gift life has offered is power. Being alive is a gift. And with this sense of being alive, she began her healing. Puja said that healing is not without damage, but rather the damages no longer had power over her. Anna was slapped back to life by Puja’s humility. Puja had lived through her pain, but never once did she compare her pain to Anna’s.

      It was not necessary. I’m here to help Anna, not to remind her of each other’s pain. The best revenge is to live your life to the fullest. And that requires gratitude! said Puja. Anna’s healing journey began with this sense of gratitude. Today she leads many to reveal gratitude from within. I’ve had the pleasure to hear her talk.

      After the devastating ruins of the Kobe tsunami, victims thronged to the hospitals of Japan. Two brothers occupied two beds at the hospital, with two machines helping them breathed. Their mother fought relentlessly to protect the beds for her children. Both brothers lived with an illness that deteriorated their muscles. Eventually they’d die when their muscles fail them. Doctors said that they couldn’t live past thirty years old. The older brother was already thirty-two years old and loved poetry. The younger was twenty-six and enjoyed painting. They used modern computers to assist them with their works. When the tragedy struck Japan, these two brothers felt they were depriving others of the two hospital beds. They felt their lives were too insignificant and wanted the doctors to shut down the machines keeping them alive. They were willing to sacrifice their lives and give their beds to the victims. This act, though it may seem like an act of martyrdom, is actually an act of cowardice. Both brothers had edged gratitude out. They looked at their lives as insignificant and felt that life could be tapered by them. Unknowingly, they had begrudged their existence. Their father came to the scene when he heard from the doctor that the brothers wanted to take their own lives away.

      "Do you think by ending your life is going to save the victims’ lives? Your beds can only fit two more persons. Is that selfless? No! You are selfish to think that your life is unworthy, lacks beauty, and has no possibility to inspire others!

      Inspiration is not based on how physically strong you are. If you lack gratitude for being alive, you are a complainer. Then what use would it be to be physically agile, but you are a complainer? Even if you are in paradise, you would still complain! Be thankful. Being thankful will transform your inner world to witness abundance. Then you’ll know in your heart of hearts that you are enough just the way you are; you will start to look at the beauty of your mind and create something to inspire others to build their lives up from this tsunami. Believe me, you will recognise that you will have more than enough! Their father put every ounce of his life force into those words.

      The painter searched for joyful pictures in his head, and the brother composed poems alongside his art. Both inspired millions to rise up with hope just the way they are! Nothing has changed around them, only their mindset for

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