Who we are, what we know and also believe are at the center of our actions. Knowledge and belief are almost always about our experiences; they form the medium—the mind—that defines the nature of our relationships with other people and the environment we find ourselves in.
When aboutness ceases, the direct experience of reality happens. This point in human life is liberation from the skewed and biased aspects of one’s self-consciousness since anything about anything is according to our take. Those acquisitions that (about which) we continuously rely on are relative to us as we are in the moment and what we already know and believe in he past.

It is illuminating to enter the state of freedom from the mind’s symbolically characterized and filtered relativistic reality; This state perfectly reveals the “true” nature (“the Truth”) of our and everyone else’s (ontological) being. This outcome is Enlightenment.

Hz. Jesus said (John 8:32) “…and ye shall know the Truth, and The Truth shall make you free.” The “directly experienced” knowledge of the Truth (without any mediation) is to the ultimate degree unifying since the experiencing person feels the ground of be-ing on which all stand and share immediately, including their self (with Grace).

The concern on some people’s part about the thrill aspect sought in enlightenment is valid. However, any seeking is a mediated act that will, by definition, keep one distant from the unmediated purity needed for illumination. Seeking intended for an end (or means to justify an end) is of such nature that is unfit for the pure Nature of Be-ing (God) to be acquired. In other words, there is mismatch between the way of getting something and that something needing its own way of being received. I presented the SIRDS as an example (page 92 of my book “The Unrelative Truth”) to demonstrate how unseeking process for seeing the 3D picture in the 2D pattern is necessary.

The path to purity is through empathy and compassion, kindness and fidelity, justice and objectivity. It is no simple easy task to gain those virtues (while playing the “thrill” game). It takes a living with the goodness Sean Doyle suggested, in the way: “Its expression would be seen when bringing the best out of loved ones and strangers and friends, when helping them reveal themselves as miraculous and holy.”

In relation to the quote “If you think you understand God/Tao/Brahman, you don’t understand,” I found the need (featured in the book) for a new word: “instanding.” It replaces understanding (of cognition) when it comes to directly experienced form of “unmediated” knowledge acquisition specific to the spiritual realm of be-ing. Instanding has zero aboutness.
Thank you.
Love and peace.