Guess thats part of the process, mediation is like training. You're training your mind to be able to rid those annoying thoughts. Kind of like lifting, you start small and eventually you can lift all plates. Same here, you start with so many thoughts, months later you'll be very in sync with yourself.

There is actually a specific meditation technique that does something like this. It is called the Bubble Meditation, which is a structured meditation of the inner way. You meditate on your own stream of consciousness.

Picture yourself sitting quietly and comfortably on the bottom of a clear lake. You know how slowly large bubbles rise through the water. Each thought, feeling, perception, etc., is pictured as a bubble rising into the space you can observe, passing through and out of this space. It takes five to seven seconds to complete this process. When you have a thought or feeling, you simply observe it for this time period until it passes out of your visual space. Then you wait for the next one and observe it for the same amount of time, and so on. You do not explore, follow up or associate to a bubble, just observe it with the background of, 'Oh, that is what I am thinking (or feeling, or sensing) now. How interesting'. Then, as it passes out of visual space (as the imaginary bubble rises) you calmly wait for the next bubble.

The purpose of the bubble is two-fold. First, it means you spend a (more or less) constant amount of time - 5-7 seconds - with each thought. Second, it helps you see each one in isolation, without trying to find connections between them. Some people feel uneasy being at the bottom of a lake, so instead you can imagine yourself on a prairie and the thoughts are smoke signals going up into the sky. Or a Tibetan way is to imagine them as logs floating past on a river.

This is different from thoughts that come to you when doing some other meditation, like breath counting, contemplation, the meditation of the Safe Harbour, or the Thousand-petalled Lotus. In these cases, you simply accept that your mind will drift away from time to time, recognise when it happens, and gently bring your mind back to the practice.

Yes, you can reach enlightenment by meditating, but that's like saying "another benefit of hitting the gym is that you might win the Mr. Olympia competition." It's technically true, but the vast majority of people will benefit from meditating/hitting the gym but won't reach enlightenment/win Mr. Olympia. And no, accepting rationally that there's no self is not the same as experiencing that there's no self.

Also, meditating with the intent to reach enlightenment is counterproductive.

Achieving this will go a long way to supplementing stoicism and cultivating dark triad traits, if that's your goal.

I like your description of no self and how you linked it to TRP theory. However, I don't like this statement. You're still thinking in terms of mastering your ego. That's an ego trap, because the ego doesn't actually exist.

You don't reach that enlightened, beyond-motivation stage by realizing that there's no self and then somehow magically rewiring your non-existent self to have more willpower. You reach that stage by experiencing and accepting that you have no free will and you are not in control of your body, hence you can let go of the illusion of control. One you do that, then you'll be at a stage where motivation becomes meaningless, because your body will either do it or not do it, and there's no point in trying to influence that.

Similarly, fears become meaningless to the enlightened person not because the enlightened mind somehow has a super strong will, but because that mind has accepted that if there's no "you," then there's nothing to protect or be afraid of or for.

The trick is not bludgeoning your ego into submission by convincing it that it doesn't exist. In fact, arguing with it means acknowledging it to some extent. The trick is letting go of it.

Finally, enlightenment will make you a bit more effective but that's not the primary benefit. The two primary benefits are 1) no longer having to worry about anything because you'll disassociate from your body and 2) being able to experience raw sensory input without immediately judging it, labeling it and hiding it behind concepts.