Life readily relinquishes its flowers that it may produce a seed, so that its leaves may bud, grow, and nurture the tree, so that its dropped flowers may nuture the Earth.

The flowers must drop and the seeds must spread or life stagnates and dies. The way is renewed and maintained with the shedding of the old and the embracing of the new.

Let the old go, nurture the new, and keep to the Way.