It sounds like a contradiction without meaning. Yet water must leave its liquid state for steam to exist, and stone must be removed from a quarry before it can become part of a pyramid

For a soul to enter another form, the limiting body must end. The same principle appears in spiritual traditions and in the ordinary transformations of matter

This is not about a cooked and eaten dumpling. It is about intention: before a desire can become real, its essence must pass through the destruction of the previous state