My dearest John,
This is an example for the Buddha’s eyes. Of course, the actual “I” of the Buddha is beyond, not just this (eye).

You can put color in the two corners, more or less like this. It should be painted more round. I made a little mistake and it is not very neat. It is very important that the Buddha’s eye is not wide, but fine and narrow, half-opened and half-closed. This signifies that Buddha is in equipoise meditation on emptiness, while at the same time working for sentient beings. Only Buddha can do that because he is free from all the defilements: gross and subtle. Half-closed means in equipoise meditation, half-opened means working for sentient beings.

I have put gold between, assuming the color of the statue is gold. The first part still needs to be finer. This is just to give an idea, my dear.

I hope that drawing Buddha’s eyes will quickly bring you the omniscient “I,” causing all sentient beings to have the wisdom “I,” liberation from samsara, enlightenment, all the enjoyments, money and any material possession, wealth, liberation (realization of the path), and liberation (cessation of all suffering and its causes).

With much love and prayers...