this miscalled ‘annihilation’ of the self is a sacrifice of the boundaries which once defined the self, not in vitiation of the self, but in its kenosis, a transformation whereby it is emptied out into a whole which is larger than itself.112 So it is that neither the bud nor the blossom is repudiated by, but rather aufgehoben in, the fruit.
An image appears: Consider a metaphor of the cup overfilled with water and thinking it is that water that is in it. The kenosis occures when rather r than being filled and overflowing it is instead placed inside, sunk into, the stream that it was filled from.
It the cup is always there, so too the water, the realisation is the movement from cup, cup with water (regardless of amount), cup with constant stream of water ever (over)flowing and cup in the stream with water flowing all around.
Is it neccesary for the cup to disintergrate to the point that the cup and the stream are inseperable?
