In the world where anything that is SLIGHTLY AMBIGUOUS is DISCOUNTED as not being of MUCH VALUE - I present you all Yūgen (幽玄).
Yūgen (幽玄) = THAT WHICH IS BEYOND WHAT IS SAID !
The most important things are different for every one and ART gives a MEDIUM to your expression. What if you CANNOT EXPRESS ? There is no ENGLISH WORD for the type of FEELING which JAPANESE call YUGEN.
In Retrospect ;
Yūgen (幽玄) is one of the 7 Aesthetic Ideals of Wabi-Sabi.
Wabi = NATURE that represents PERFECTION = MASCULINE ENERGY ! Sabi = FORCES OF NATURE Ex. AUTUMN ; SNOWFALL or CHEERY BLOSSOM that represents IMPERFECTION = FEMININE ENERGY !
The 7 Aesthetic principles for achieving Wabi-Sabi.
Yūgen (幽玄) is one of them.
Yūgen (幽玄) has the power to EVOKE rather than STATE DIRECTLY. Yugen suggest WHAT HAS NOT BEEN SAID AND KNOWN !
The SUBTLE SHADOWS of BAMBOO ON BAMBOO is Yūgen (幽玄)
My Yūgen (幽玄) MOMENT ; I have been to this beach more than 5 times when i was in Japan only to experience Yūgen (幽玄) MOMENT.
Until date i have not been able to put in words my experience ON THIS BEACH !
This moment is a Yūgen (幽玄) moment.
ARAIHAMA BEACH IN JAPAN !
A Yūgen (幽玄) MOMENT ; The experience of NATURE to the degree that it produces the INTANGIBLE EFFECTS with in us NEVER TO BE PUT INTO WORDS !
A MOMENT in your IMAGINATION but you dont want to PEN IT DOWN ! Because to do so would make it NO LONGER YUGEN !
This is one such thing ! Beyond what is said existing at the core of appreciation of beauty.
An awareness of IMPERMANENCE and TRANSIENCE OF THINGS.
AUSTERE BEAUTY !
Artistic experience is the ability to express the HUMAN EXPERIENCE in LANGUAGE.
The most important things are the HARDEST things to SAY ! They are things which WORDS can MAKE THEM SMALL ! These thoughts were LIMITLESS when they were inside your HEAD ; but when they come out they BECOME NORMAL ! Is it possible to describe things without making it NORMAL ?
My UNCONSCIOUS MIND is already filled only with WATER ! My only Company ! The company that has FORGIVEN me.
WATER !
Can you see the RISING WAVE ; It will return back to NOTHINGNESS !
THE UNSEEN : No wave is permanent is the meaning of YUGEN !
The universe was SPEAKING to me !
HOW TO APPLY YUGEN IN REAL LIFE ?
We notice things that are ADVANTAGEOUS OR DISADVANTAGEOUS for our SURVIVAL.
We notice PATTERNS in what we have learnt from the SOCIETY.
It is hard to NOTICE anything IMPERFECT for which LANGUAGE AVAILABLE to us DOES NOT HAVE A DESCRIPTION.
Today i want to RECALL things that never had description but i realized that it will seem to stay with me commensurate to the amount of time they remain UNSAID.
I say to SAY IT ANYWAYS!
Its hard for you to talk about YUGEN ; people may look at you strangely. Men may never understand WHY SHE SAID IT ALL.
When we ARTICULATE Yūgen (幽玄) we lessen its POWER.
But it is still important and even to TRY !
Lets analyse this video.
This is not just my favourite video but many woman and also men of this generation somehow love this video. This is not related to SURVIVAL-PERFECTION but yet we all love this video?
The thoughts in my mind is LIMITLESS but iam afraid if this video is going to reduce the POWER of my thoughts.But iam not finding any other way to express that :
THE HIGHEST STATUS THAT ANY WOMAN CAN POTENTIALLY ACHIEVE IN HER LIFE IS "INDEPENDENCE".
Iam sure most of them who love this video will also agree with this statement.
INDEPENDENCE is an UNSEEN THING - AN IMPERFECTION but we all somehow LOVE AND APPRECIATE IT. People will LAUGH at you because you are SEEING THOSE THINGS that are not related to PERFECTION AND SURVIVAL. This is the BEAUTY OF YUGEN. This is what YUGEN means.
I think you may understand at this POINT ; that which makes something like YUGEN so DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND !
THE UNSEEN AND UNSAID IS IMPERFECTION.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, in Zen and Japanese Culture wrote,
"An object so designated [as yūgen] is not subject to dialectical analysis or to a clear-cut definition. It is not at all presentable to our sense-intellect as this or that, but this does not mean that the object is altogether beyond the reach of human experience. In fact, it is experienced by us, and yet we cannot take it out into the broad daylight of objective publicity. It is something we feel within ourselves, and yet it is an object about which we can talk. It is an object of mutual communication only among those who have the feeling of it. It is hidden behind the clouds but not entirely out of sight, for we feel its presence, its secret message being transmitted through the darkness however impenetrable to the intellect. The feeling is all in all. Cloudiness or obscurity or indefinability is indeed characteristic of the feeling. But it would be a great mistake if we took this cloudiness for something experientially valueless or devoid of significance to our daily life. We must remember that Reality or the source of all things is to the human understanding an unknown quantity, but that we can feel it in a most concrete way"
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki ;
This man is the AUTHOR of ZEN BUDDHISM.
I have not read the manual but i have EXPERIENCED IT ! I wish i could go back to Japan but time being iam looking for a Job in Bangalore.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was born here in Kamakura where THE GREAT BUDDHA IS LOCATED.
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