There seems to be a few questionable moves.

> Jay Garfield, professor of Buddhist philosophy explained the illusion of self this way

See Evan Thompson’s criticism regarding Garfields “illusory self” (& his entire “losing ourselves” book) here - https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/losing-ourselves-learning-to-live-without-a-self/ The main issue seems to be Garfield is conflating pre reflexive self consciousness with some “illusory” subject - object structure.

> Solidifying your “self” — what kind of person you are, your ideal preferences, your becoming, is always dangerous.

I don’t see why we need to be so extreme here, healthy doses of fixation upon self - improvement seems for a lot of people (including myself) rather psychologically healthy & generally quite beneficial etc, it’s not clear what the “danger” is supposed to be here unless it’s taken to obsessive levels.

> Reality is not just about you, when there are several billion people believing in this myth, the Earth and the rest of its inhabitants are truly f__ked.

It’s not clear to me what the “myth” is supposed to be here, what is it that people are wrongfully believing? That they exist as some self? Or as some separate self? Or that they exist at all? The “self” in general is an extremely nebulous term with dramatic variation in usage & conceptualisation, specifically in philosophical discussions regarding it people continuously talk past each other. Overall, to me, it seems our use of the word “self” isn’t even used, nobody in daily life uses the word “self” singularly. What has happened here is the typical everyday pronoun “myself” has been extracted & utilised for “analysis” to the point where we must ask what actually is this “self” we are talking about when we say “myself?” But this seems misguided, for the ordinary usage is not to talk of a self we have, but rather a self we are. I am a human being, not some self in a human being. When we look in a mirror and say “there I am” that is to indicate “there is a human being that I am.” Similarly, when we state “I had an experience” it is not to talk of some self having this experience, but rather this human being having this experience. Belief in “self” from this ordinary everyday perspective seems quite unproblematic, not really a myth.