OBSERVATION

The awakened state, also known as liberation, moksha, samadhi, nirvana, presence, or as Gerald Heard simply termed it, "this thing," is a condition of consciousness.

It is not, having said this, something a person can do something with, or to, as if it were an object.

Since there is no more fulfilling experience than this state, a person, once he has experienced it, wants to go there every waking moment, except that he can't.  Frustratingly, he can't, because he is the state.

The bonus to it is "attunement," as it is called.  A person finds that he and life are on the same wavelength suddenly, to where, as Taoists put it, he is in the flow of things, he is with the Tao.  Everything feels right, now.