Can you build without destroying? If so, what and how?

It all depends on your definitions of building and destroying.

In order to create something, you’re going to have to use existing materials, so, in a sense you’ll be destroying the original form of those materials.

On the other hand, we can’t truly destroy anything, but only change it’s form or appearance.

It’s a Möbius strip of thought.

There is no such thing as destroying. As @ibstubro different aspects of the world as we perceive it are moved around in different ways.

different aspects of the world as we perceive it are moved around in different ways.

Can you elaborate?

You can build good will without destroying anything.

A potential for negative consequences arising from any activity is always highly probable. “Out with the old, in with the new” is a maxim the young find easier to follow. Whatever what is gained in the transformation, something is lost. Change is inevitable, but it is also resented.

You can build personal relationships without destroying anything. Same with trust, respect and so on.

Kali-ma is the Hindu goddess of death, chaos, and destruction. (“Dark Mother”)

She is also life, order and creation.

The eternal order is balance, we can not have one without the other.

Create (build) vs. Destroy is a false dichotomy.

Things change and transmute into different forms. As @YARNLADY says it moves around.

The example that @kitszu cites is the spiritual mythological way of saying that create/destroy are two sides of the same coin or as I said, it’s known as a false dichotomy.

@Dr_Lawrence, the formation of a relationship affects existing relationships, some detrimentally.

Everything, mental and physical, is in a continuous state of transformation. Our bodies are made of atoms born in stars in galaxies long ago and far away. Mind or consciousness is linked in space and time to those moments of their births. However, this connection can only be realized with our body’s demise (imho).