Enlightenment is not an experience of not-something.

The human mind can only perceive itself. Even when imagining enlightenment, the human mind can only see it in relationship to itself. To the mind, enlightenment is not being a mind. Losing the mind, transcending the mind, becoming liberated from the mind.

Because it’s all about the mind.

Just like from a child’s point of view, adulthood is not being a child. Because childhood is all the child knows, it is all it can perceive, it is all it can imagine. A child can imagine losing something that it has - itself - but it can’t imagine gaining something else, becoming something else.

A mind can imagine losing something that it knows - itself - but it can’t envision being something other than itself. The mind can tell you all about being mindless, about being not self, not mind, not this - but it can’t tell you what you will be instead. The mind can’t tell you what will happen once the mind is lost.

Here is a rule of thumb: whenever enlightenment is spoken of as no-mind, no-self, losing mind, transcending mind, getting rid of mind, or ego, or self - that is the ego talking, not enlightenment. It is the mind talking, not enlightenment. It is the self talking, not enlightenment.

A mind can’t take you through a process of liberating your mind from your mind.