What Constructs And Brings Into Existence The 'mind'?

[CosmicTrekker]

Though I accept at least at the intellectual level that there is no 'I' and that the mind constructs the 'I', but I'm having difficulty understanding what is/are the thing(s) that brings the mind into existence - even though it's an illusion of sorts?

I have heard it said by practitioners of enlightenment that pure awareness is ALL that exists, which implies that the awareness is that thing which gives rise to the mind. 

If the mind and thus the self is created by consciousness/awareness, then why does it create that mind and for what end?

[Capethaz]

Do the work towards Enlightenment and these questions will be solved.

[Prabhaker]

@ishaq

Every child is born with a fresh brain but not with a fresh mind. Mind is a layer of conditioning around the consciousness. You will not remember it; that is why there is a discontinuity.

… Mind has no beginning; it has been always there with you. Then at a certain moment you drop it.

The end of the mind is enlightenment. Then enlightenment continues. It has a beginning but no end. Together they cover the whole eternity, from the past to the future.

But the brain is born every time you enter a body and it dies every time you leave the body. But its content — that is the mind — does not die; it remains with the consciousness. That’s why it is possible to remember your past lives. All those minds are still with you. But because psychology makes no distinction between mind and brain, and science accepts no distinction… in the English language mind and brain are almost synonymous.

In each life when a person dies the brain dies, but the mind is released from the brain and becomes a layer on the consciousness. It is nonmaterial; it is just a certain vibe. So on our consciousness there are thousands of layers.