I had a moment of enlightenment a few years back. I was coming home from a job I detested, sitting at the longest red light in the country. Very suddenly the bottom dropped out of my proverbial bucket of thoughts. There was not a thought in my head, good or bad, and I just laughed because everything around was so simple when just seconds before it had been a big rat race. I wasn't worried about where I was going with my job anymore, and everything faded away. I was just right there, very simply and honestly. There were no thoughts swarming in my head dragging me around with desires and worries. Everything was right there in front of me, pure and simple like a hammer to the forebrain. It needed no translation into thoughts. Then the light turned green and the experience stayed behind me.