" Shikantaza proceeds from the view that all our thoughts and perceptions are by necessity incomplete and, to either a large or small degree, mistaken. There is no way to encompass reality in your mind. The brain does its job, in part, by deliberately ignoring most of the data it receives and by focusing only on the material it needs. Furthermore, the data the brain receives is itself already limited to what our senses are able to perceive. One of the things the brain does is create an image of the self. Like all its images, the image of the self is by necessity incomplete. But it’s a model that is usually useful for most of the activities we engage in. "

― Brad Warner , There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places