an inescapable state of being

Your individual thinking, your personal experience does not exist in any solitudinal or set-apart way as fully itself. This expression of "personal" existence is a deeply held delusion. While our everyday experience portrays that of a subliminal solidarity, the existence of the individual (including objects we identify) do not, in anyway, persist as such. This was understood long before any idea of enlightenment, or gods or any other sort of being type that could possibly exist in some independent outside. This cannot be misunderstood, as it's not a come and go sort of understanding, but an understanding of all comings and goings as the reality of which an individual can persist through delusion.

a state of mind

There is a long-held belief that the mind is "something else", it exists alone and "thinks outside of the box", yet even that thought is paramount to being. It doesn't exist in a state, but a multitude of states with an underlying core of statelessness. Most perceive a mind as a body of ideas, without a body, it gives rise to independence as an idea and that idea somehow floats somewhere else, untouched by the body. You may not see this as a truthful assessment, but if you are a person, your personhood travels along, mind and body and is always transcended by an immediate environment. The mind/body written in ever to fade ink across a future of entropy. A past that stays in place long enough to be "of the experience" for a future to describe. There is no other state or place to be, but here, now, eternally.