Yugen. There is no english equivalent to this japanese feeling, when asked to explain it, one japanese professor said simply: "to watch the sunset behind a flower-clad hill, to wander on and on in a huge forest without thought of return, to stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands, to contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. All these are yugen," but what do they have in common?
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