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Partner as a state of being - by Kylie 曾 Tseng

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guided by commitment in the practice of partnership as world building

The wu xing, 五行, known in the west as the five elements reminds of the cyclical way transformation occurs. For life to continue, it shares with us a process, a turn of the wheel, one state of being that leads to another. The cycle starts as wood, the plant life that bursts through the earth to create fuel, food, the cellular body of the land. When that wood dries, dies, and breaks off, it is transmuted by fire, which needs this source to burn, incinerate, carbonize into the gifts of heat and light. The residue released by this action, gathers, accumulates, and adds to the layers of…

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