In the areas where smile is still highly respected, such as Bali, Tengger, Tibet, Peru, India, etc. the quality of life is much different. Not simply because they have different smile, but also they have deeper friendship with life, nature and people as well.
A spiritual friend who was born in Tengger East Java shared a touching story. If someone walk behind the others, before he is suggested to go first, he will continue to walk behind. Even when people who are walking first take a rest for a moment, he will wait until he is recommended to walk first.
A series of example about the noble life. This is probably happen when people learn to smile diligently in the front of life. Not only smile to the people, but also smile to the environment and all blessings of life.
To put it simply, there are two impacts of smile. The impact of smile to the inner world and the outer world. Smile brings deep impact to the inner world. From increasing the quality of friendship with life, deepening one's understanding about life, and smile can beautify the heart as well.
The more a person smiles, the deeper they learn to accept life. As a result, the more light of healing that they bring to the inner wound. As experienced by many highly realized masters, much deeper than healing the inner wound, smile also help spiritual seekers to enter the gate of wholeness. Especially because deep smile not only smile to the positive, but also smile to all things that are considered negative.
From this gate of wholeness then one can give birth to beautiful heart. A heart which is very similar to a beautiful flower. This kind of heart does not just share deep beauty, but also take good care of life with deep smile. This is the secret behind many luminous souls like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
Beside giving impact to the inner world, smile also give impact to the outer world. One day there was a high level karate teacher on the island of Okinawa Japan who was intercepted and challenged to fight by an American drunken soldier. With a deep smile this karate teacher bow and simply walk away.
One of his karate student who saw what happened, in the following day asked impatiently like this: "why didn't you just hit the drunken soldier last night?". With a friendly smile this karate teacher replied: "to learn karate is to learn to be full of smile in life".
That is why in the deep spiritual world has been widely known a message like this: "smile is the only curve which can straighten all crooked things in life". Not only the problematic things outside that can be healed by smile, smile can also heal the inner wound as well.
Penulis: Gede Prama
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