The vase

"Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum."

Imagine a vase being your mind/body. This vase finds itself to break either because of someone's anger, oblivion, haste or deliberation; where some of them are fetching the need to be fixed, and some broken beyond hope. Mending it back into it's true self requires a lot of patience, love, delicacy and no expectations. This process also calls for being slow, cautious and purely thoughtful.

This is what I'd like to call a mortal-reincarnation, because neither can we uproot the vase's past, nor change it. But what we can do is embrace, refine, recreate and outgrow it. Identically, it makes the vase worth more because now, not only does it visually look different from the rest but also has its unique metallic shine. The roots and the scars have moulded the vase in its own oblivion.

Now I know, people talk a lot about growth and change. But nobody talks about what are the exact stages/thoughts to go through. So why talk about the whole process of the reincarnation and becoming "better" at all in the first place? People cannot tell where this vase belongs, nor can they tell if it actually belong to anyone. Will it just stay where it is no matter how much it shines or will it be bought by someone? Should it even be priced?

The answer is a clear no. The answer neither is about "going with the flow", because it's only the dead fish flowing that stream. But this is reincarnation and hence the focus needs to be on creating your own flow. It might be important to hear perspectives, but what's more important is focusing on creating the stream of the flow. This stream is the metallic line flowing through the broken vase which is filled with the highest form of consciousness and self awareness and is the reason why every broken vase craves to imbibe; afterall being a gold lining.

We tend to think of scars as ugly, or imperfect; as things we want to hide or forget. But what they teach us, is being stubborn to stay. Staying, taking a moment, breathing and forgetting about all the cacophony in the background. This is why scars shouldn't be reminders of what's been broken, but rather of what's been created.

The fact that the vase cannot fix itself is only true until it finds a mindful ceram(therap)ist.