When the mind is made quiet by meditation and the internal dialog is greatly diminished, thoughts of "I want this ..." or "I don't like that ..." are greatly diminished too.
And when the body is very relaxed, there is very little tension or tensing in response to unpleasant thoughts or to the emotions they produce.
And when you sit watching the mind, waiting for the next thought or emotion to arise, you see there are hardly any thoughts or emotions arising.
You feel the absence of these thoughts and emotions, something is missing, it feels like an emptiness. At first it might be just a faint glimmer of a feeling, but in time, with attention and repetition, you become more aware of the feeling. It's like someone is away. If another person said something unpleasant, there would be no one in that emptiness to take offense.
At first this feeling might be uncomfortable because it is strange. But in time, through repetition, as you become more and more aware of this feeling, it becomes stronger as it fills your sense of existence more and more. It becomes familiar and you notice it is associated with the absence of unpleasant thoughts and emotions so you see that it is pleasant and you meditate to deepen and enhance this new state of consciousness.
When people try to explain this feeling, they can only do it with words. Using words makes it sound like they are using logic to explain an objective fact. But it is not a logical proposition that is true or false. It is just a feeling.
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