The Hallucination of the Separate Self

He suggests, you see, that you practice the control of the mind. You give up selfish desire, so as to cease to be a skin-encapsulated self. And he looks at you in a funny way. He's beginning to make you see the hallucinatory quality of a separate self. This has merely conventional reality in the same sense as lines of latitude and longitude,. That's why one of the meanings of Maya, illusion, is measurement.