Awakening, Enlightenment, Self-Realization are all concepts too within the framework of the personal I (ego) identification. These concepts are to be dropped as well.What one has relied on will not present the truth, it can not because the personal I is dependent on a dualistic construct (hot-cold, right-wrong,etc.), it can however bring a deeper understanding of how the mind works...and that is all.

       Drop ownership of all thoughts. If you have me, mine, your thoughts running then you are identifying as a separate, individual self and full on in the game of suffering & fleeting happiness. See how you are dependent on concepts and decide from there...truth or illusion. Drop ownership of thought and place your attention on the present. It is a mind trap to think that one concept or idea is better or worse than another, all thought lies only in the construct of the personal I (ego) separate , independent self. Separation is a concept, drop that too!