It was not raining" – ergo, even the narration is self-negating.
Submission refers to the extent an individual is willing to self-negate to the benefit of others.
Maybe not optimum use there of the word "soak," but you get the idea: gay, but self-negating through God, basically.
Altruism denotes selfless behavior, but that behavior requires a self to negate, which Confucian role-bearing persons do not have.
There is more that we can do at home to undo this self-negating approach.
The curious case of the disappearing scientist has never been solved and for the best part of a century his self-negating particle has proved no less elusive.
This also gives me another chance to flag the self-negating, "I know there is so much worse stuff going on in the world right now". This can be a useful thought exercise for dealing with disappointment, say, but for grief, especially on so many fronts?
Interestingly, this kind of uncaring egocentricity is a traditionally masculine trait, but when characters put other people's needs before their own in a self-negating, feminine way, that doesn't turn out particularly well, either: the lasagne Maura makes Sal is rejected, while Raquel's accommodation of the Colton situation has potentially harmed her unborn child.
If relative nothingness as opposed to being is implied, it is in the verbal sense of self-negating.
In this quintessential Zen expression are wedded together the meontological and psychological senses of wu/mu: a rejection of an ontology of independent substances, a declaration of an originary (self-negating) nothingness, and an expression of a radical freedom from egoistic attachment and freedom for spontaneous creativity and compassion.
But its mantra ― "If it feels good, do it" ― made King's rejection of eros in the name of self-negating agape a non-starter for them.
