What Is Cessation?

[Phil]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Cessation can come (in part) from realizing that being doesn't need meaning to be.  This is a big one on the path.  A lot of people assume that everything in being needs to be filtered through meaning.  They're always looking for things to make sense, for the why.  Everything has meaning.  Well, you can turn that off too.  People vary in their ability to turn meaning off.

Great realization, but that isn’t cessation. 

[Enlightened Cat]

Nothing. No thing.

Google defines it as: 

The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.

To that I say, a thing which ends can't be. So what really ended, experientially?

Buddhism seems to define it as: 

-The cessation or renouncing of craving and desire. It is the third of the Four Noble Truths, stating that suffering (dukkha) ceases when craving and desire are renounced. (Wikipedia)
-Generally the word refers to the absence or extinction of a given entity. As the third of the four noble truths, cessation refers specifically to the pacification of suffering and its causes. (Rigpa Wiki)

All definitions point to an ending. Buddhism seems to phrase it as the end of an entity or desirer. If cravings and desires are renounced, so are the craver and desirer. At the end, it seems to be nothing.