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One’s “self” is a construct of one’s mind.  Constructed, I say, by the various mental behaviors required that form the sense of “self”.  Also, our mind and body are part of the same entity.  One’s mind perceives sensory input and interprets it.  Sometimes the interpretation is an illusion.  But these mental behaviors that occur in what we may call our mindscape (for CC’s sake) are all a part of us as a single entity.  The mental behaviors that we do to create our sense of self, and the mental behaviors that we do that result in our perceptions, some of which may be mentally processed as illusions, and also the mental behaviors that we do as any other function,  —   all one entity.  No dualistic self vs mind vs body (or would that be tri-alistic?) idk, but no – one entity.

So let’s say someone tells you that your mind is an illusion.  Well, your “mind”  (brain) or, more specifically, mental behaviors and processing, are what creates illusions. As it is also mental behaviors that comprise your sense of self. Anyway, the someone that said your mind is an illusion, is basically saying that that your mental behaviors (by which you perceive and process illusions) is an illusion.  Just how does it make sense ??? that your mental behaviors are an illusion while that is the mechanism by which you perceive illusions? An illusion that perceives illusions?  Are you getting the picture here?  Your thinking is goofed up on this.

Now no one is required to believe all of that. In fact, the parts about “mental behaviors” are not widely accepted, despite it being a parsimonious and internally consistent paradigm.

But, Xain, if you did buy in to what I said here, you might also buy in to my notion that you are mentally and illogically at war with yourself. I suggest you figure out a way to make a truce.