Miroku

I've recently downloaded a picture of this beautiful wooden statue as a wall paper for my mobile. It is one of national treasures in Japan, called "Horin Miroku" which is placed at Koryuji-temple in Kyoto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji

Everytime I flip out to opem my mobile, the beautiful smile always pops out to comfort me. I wonder if I could have this kind of peaceful smile even in a minuite, but impossible. This kind of smile comes only from those who may have reached some state of enlightment...

Working as a tour leader, I see many many people in the world, and sometimes encounter beautiful smiles like this statue. It is different from Kid's smiles whick are made of innocence or pure. The smile I'm talking about comes from the state of mind which overcomes any kind of emotional feelings such as joy, fun, anger, sadness, and so on.

Supposedly the length of life last 12o years, my age has just reached only 1/4 of it. I'm just expecting too much to become like Miroku... I've still got many things to learn in life.