Seven Times Down Eight Times Up

As I was doing my usual tapes tonight I suddenly focused on a slightly bizarre figure on top of my main tv set. He was faced away from me about 90 degrees. He seemed to be looking out the patio window. I looked over at the other dude on the other side of the tv set: he seemed to be staring at me eyes wide open as usual. Something was obviously wrong: they both should have been staring at me eyes wide open. One was, one wasn't. Clearly there was some sort of a problem. I got up and walked over to the tv. I grasped the deviant doll with my left hand and turned it around such that, from my usual position on the couch, it seemed to be staring at me. Then I went back to the couch and sat down, job done. That ought to have ended the matter.
 
But as my short-term memory rechecked the situation I became aware that what we had here was possibly significant. I wondered, first of all, why number one was staring out the window. That was enough: I then began to muster most of my available brain cells (very limited in number if you want to know) for the purpose of answering the question, "Why was this doll staring out the window when he ought to have been staring at me as usual? Did somebody rotate him?"
 
After a while the question faded away. Other stuff took over those previously available brain cells. But I remember thinking that those dolls were a gift from Japan. I remember thinking that those dolls could stare wherever they wanted to stare and it was no skin off my nose.
 
Then I remembered that those dolls were little round beings, weighted at the bottom. I remembered that you could roll those little dolls every which way, but that they would eventually return to right-side-up. I remembered furthermore that those dolls would never shut their eyes.  (You see the parable, I'm sure.) 
 
Those dolls are you. Your eyes are always wide open. Furthermore your center of gravity will not permit you to fall over permanently. Seven times down, eight times up.    

The name of those dolls is, 'Daruma.' You are Daruma.