The state of enlightenment is actually very easy to describe.

This is a tree. This is a squirrel. I’m alive. I will die. Enlightenment.

But the dreaming mind cannot relate to such simplicity. Simplicity can relate to complexity, but complexity cannot relate to simplicity.

Dreams are hard to describe, not enlightenment, because dreaming is complex and subjective. So all the wonderful states that are leading to enlightenment (non-duality, consciousness, awareness, oneness, emptiness, non-doership etc.) are very hard to describe, yes.

It is very hard for the ordinarily dreaming mind to relate to the descriptions of these much subtler states of dreaming, because they are much more simple and the dreaming mind has long forgotten their simplicity in its own complexity. But people who dream on similar levels can very easily relate to each other, regardless of the words they use, so it’s easy for them. And if/when this happens to you, you will be able to easily relate to them also.

But people dreaming on those levels still can’t relate to enlightenment, so they don’t see it. They can only see fellow dreamers and they can also see and relate to people who are yet to abandon what they have abandoned. They can relate to them, but not the other way around. They became simpler, so they can see more of others’ complexity. But they are not yet ultimately simple, so they describe themselves in complex ways.

A fully enlightened mind is ultimately simple, so it can relate to any mind. It sees everyone, but no one can see it. And there’s nothing left to describe that other people cannot relate to.

That’s why nothing can be said about authentic and unsurpassed enlightenment. Not a single thing that other people do not already know. They just know many other things.

So if you want authentic enlightenment, don’t stop until you become the most ordinary part of existence, indistinguishable from a tree, a squirrel, or any other human.

Life is simple. The mind is complex.