"Self, in other words, is a projection of ownership onto all experience (this is my body, these are my feelings, perceptions, formations, and this is my consciousness). The five aggregates really do occur - that is not in question. They just don't belong to anybody. Experience occurs, but the person who owns it is an additional construction.

If the self is so simply created, it is just as simply abandoned. [...] Buddha says that there is a practical way leading to the cessation of the view of self as a really existing entity: regard the aggregates as 'this is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self'. "

Untangling self