In Zen aesthetics, broken pieces of an accidentally smashed pot should be carefully picked up, reassembled, and then glued together with lacquer inflected with expensive gold powder, with no attempt to disguise the damage; instead, the fault lines should be rendered beautiful and strong.
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“In Zen aesthetics the broken pieces of an accidentally smashed pot should be carefully picked up reassembled and then glued together with lacquer inflected with the most expensive gold powder. There should be no attempt to disguise the damage. The point is to render the fault lines beautiful and strong.”
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:25:21 AM
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