Awareness.
Directing your practice to awareness. Realizing that you have awareness and its not just concept but you also can sense it. "I am".
When you are doing noting practice its like extra effort what you really don't need to do, its like a degradation from awareness. You just need to stop noting and just notice your own self.
Meditation is working with your self, if its mechanical sensless doing like riding a bike then you could also note your whole life and still not get it even if you have some weird experiences.
and what level enlightenment is it depends what stage your self energies are at.
