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| https://robertketchell.blogspot.com/2016/05/yugen-and-japanese-garden.html |
Arthur Waley referred to yugen as ‘what lies beneath the surface.’ The elusiveness springs from the fact that we are dealing with an emotional response that arises in the heart of the one experiencing, rather than directly the mind.
It seems its very elusiveness may be at least in part because of the moment when we cognitively become aware of yugen in some way, it has already passed, moved onto something other, an idea or a thought. It is the same as we hear and recognize a note of music or the sound has already passed.
Yugen lies in the realm of suggestion, of the unformed, it posits a direction or place we may move toward. Yugen is revealed in the buds of the cherry before they are fully open, or perhaps in the autumn color momentarily reflected from some unlikely source. It is a quality veiled by a certain sense of mystery, contain in that which is fleeting, ephemeral and not obvious.