What has to be broken before you can use it?

A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First, he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?

I am a five-letter word and comprises two different vowels and three same consonants. I am so strong that I can spoil your entire work.

Can you find out who am I?

It comprises roots which nobody sees,
Much taller than those trees,
Up and up it goes,
Still it never grows?

You Throw The Outside, Cook The Inside
Eat The Outside, Throw The Inside.

What Is It?

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

There is a five-letter word which has 3 consonants(all are same) and 2 different vowels.
Also, something wrong is associated with the word.

Can you name it?

What can run but never walk, have a mouth that never speaks, have a head that never weeps, and have a bed but never sleeps?

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?