The next time you catch your reflection in a mirror, ask yourself who is staring at whom.
If this causes a jolt of dislocation, nausea, vertigo or such, that's a small taste of enlightened awareness. Some conceptions of it, anyway.
Either that, or you have catoptrophobia.
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(In the latter case, you probably refused to do this exercise anyway - so there's that.)
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All this talk of letting go, choiceless awareness, having no preference, seeing what is, and you could boil all of it down to just a bit of tension.
When awareness isn't tensing around something, constricting towards it, nothing really feels like you.
Or everything does. YMMV.
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I'd like to do a post riffing off Wittgenstein a bit and talk about some of the language games surrounding enlightenment and meditation and how utterly irrelevant they are.
But I think I may need to soak a bit more in this feeling before I give it a try.