Exactly so.
While ever the mind is mulling-over concepts such as enlightenment or spiritual journey; the (human) being, is infact only engaging in a form of mental masturbation.
I'll put my hand up and say guilty there!
To not even consider that enlightenment or spiritual journey, is even an issue, is I think, a better way.
I'm sure in Taoism, emptyness is the greatest virtue; but of course, even to think 'emptyness', that's not emptyness. So that the Tao that can be named (conceptualized) is not the real Tao.
