# Kintsugi — How broken becomes beautiful

Source: https://gillesdc.com/kintsugi
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Kintsugi-How-broken-becomes-beautiful?index=0x65c3b11f5768e0838d5beaf7e4179018963866644571f259a9f02fd6cc7557a5789b1396
Submitted by gillesdc.eth on 2024-02-07 UTC, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

The article argues that trauma and suffering cannot be erased by pretending they never happened, and that healing comes from picking up the broken pieces and reintegrating them into a new version of oneself, as in the Japanese mending practice of kintsugi. It draws on Buddhist ideas of impermanence and dukkha, Nietzsche's notion of self-overcoming, and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett's account of how the mind builds its sense of self. The piece holds that suffering comes from clinging to a fixed self-image and resisting change, and that human connection, with loved ones or psychologists, helps people make sense of their wounds.