As a side point, that fundamental urge to taxonomize is a large part of what zen seeks to overcome. Satori (enlightenment) can be seen as the ultimate discarding of categories: where all distinctions are removed, between the self and others, between the self and the universe, etc. Thus, the self is in fact annihilated altogether.

This is one interpretation of the oft-used phrase "one with the universe."

Doubtless I've mangled some of the concepts as bit, for which I apologise, but it's unavoidable when discussing zen.