Tokyo: Buddhist aesthetics were praised by Western audiences, who identified with the Zen concept of yegen, often translated into English as a sense of esoteric depth.

The subtlety of sensation, which is best described through images, misses this definition, as Watts explains in his lecture "The Way of Tea".

You might have this experience when you watch the sun set beyond a chaotic hill, watch wild geese flying across a cloud bank, or aimlessly on an unfamiliar path like an old mining trail or an abandoned railroad. walk regularly.

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According to Watts, these encounters are unusual because our perception is generally guided by two drives: the need to survive and the desire to be understood.

In survival mode, we notice only those things that satisfy our most basic needs, and in comprehension mode, we only notice things that are consistent with our preconceived notions.

Then, as suddenly as the weather, there are moments that quell our everyday worries and draw us behind a wall, or into unknown areas on the other side of that door.

The fundamental idea behind Yagen is that there is always something beyond, and beyond, another beyond, and beyond, another, and so on, indefinitely. The gate and the depth open to each other. "Enough" is an illusion; Only "more" is real.

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Encourage your own Yagen moments. Set aside one hour in the morning or evening. Go for a walk alone As you move forward, think about the exciting anticipations of childhood. everything is possible!

Pay close attention to any thresholds along the way, such as doors, gates, fences, windows, manholes, tree hollows, mountains, clouds, puddles and fountains. What's on the opposite side? Play with the possibilities in your mind; Stranger, better.

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When you get home, write a sentence or draw a small picture to represent this walk on a piece of paper. Keep the page in a jewelry box, in a drawer, under your mattress, or between the pages of a book. Take out the page and keep in mind that if you're feeling worn out and tired, there's something else.