FROM THE GARDEN OF ZEN: August 2020

August 31, 2020

Summer sunset: Yuigahama-beach (Kamakura)

The evening sun of late summer is slowly sinking behind the darkened cape.

The brilliant flush of the setting sun is lighting up the deep blue sky and is making the surrounding clouds glare in bright golden color to crown the end of this hot summer day.

People on the beach are quietly gazing into the transient evening sky which is subtly darkening moment by moment as if they were bidding farewell to the sea and sun before the fall of night.

Summer sunset: Yuigahama-beach (Kamakura)

The fierce heat of the hot daytime is slowly cooling down. Just before the arrival of the deepening night, the sun is about to sink beyond the distant peninsula. The dazzling evening glow is painting the western sky brilliantly with its color of raging flames.

The shining clouds are swiftly drifting in the evening sky, appearing and fading fleetingly. The surface of the sea, softly illuminated by the sunset glow, keeps constantly waving. The brightness of the sky is growing weaker from moment to moment without lingering.

In the midst of the ceaseless changing of the light and color that fill this sky, people on the shore are quietly staring at the transitoriness of the universe without knowing it.

The evening moon: Yuigahama-beach (Kamakura)

The sun has just set beneath the distant horizon. In the swiftly fading twilight sky, the first quarter moon is shining brightly in silver above a series of low clouds.

The serene moon is reflecting the lucid light of the sun which has already disappeared from sight.

The gray fleecy clouds are gently drifting away on the soft sea breeze while changing their figures successively.

The moon is silently gazing at the people standing still at this seaside, like the eye which can see through all things wisely.