The Discontinuity of Enlightenment

In Christmaudi's work, he would often say that you are caught in the self. He says if you put the question to move out of it, actually it's part of that. And there he puts an interesting analogy there and I wonder what you think about it. The analogy is somehow, okay, there's two banks. So if you're on this bank, it needs the conditions. You're on the self, you're caught in thought. From that bank, you cannot possibly ask the question to come out of there. That which is inherently free has no questions about how to come. It's a strange Conan as if they had a discontinuity. What do you think