In these blogs I have mentioned before that we are in a trap, a very subtle trap, one conceived within the human mind itself. It is not surprising therefore in Buddhism to find that we are enclosed in the five grasping aggregates which the Buddha speaks about which are owned and operated by Mara the evil one!
Furthermore, these same aggregates are without a self or anātman (P., anattā) which is supposedly the doctrine of the Buddha! Put the Buddha taught no such doctrine. However, he did teach that we are deceived by these grasping aggregates into believing that they are our self. Thus the human problem is one of misidentification: mistaking the self for what is not the self.
The highest truths of Indian religions including Buddhism is that the world and the human beings within it are an illusion. Spacetime is an illusion including this human body in which we are immersed. But perhaps even more deceptive, the imagination of beings contains within it both birth and death. Liberation then as a matter of intuiting directly what transcends the great human illusion.