We create our world through layers of thoughts

We believe we are a superior species to other animals. We appropriate and accumulate possessions to feel more at ease with ourselves. We litter the world with totally made up stories and constant streams of thought. No one have forced us or is forcing us to do it, but we do it. We invent and project our own interpretations of things onto objects and people in the world, but if we sift through these mind-made stories, we realize that objects and people simply exist. Our thoughts about them are fleeting, arising from our attached involvement in everything that occurs.

To find enlightenment according to Dzogchen is to see beneath the large pile of dirt manufactured by our own thoughts imposed into the world. It is to experience reality purely as it is, without creating stories about its purpose, origin, or future condition. In this state of being, you recognize you are not your likes, dislikes, thought patterns—you are the steady flow of energy beneath them; inseparable from reality itself and free from any thought formations. You do not separate yourself and the objects you observe. They are all impermanent objects of observation with changing states over time.

Wouldn’t it be interesting, to see a world where thoughts are recognized for what they are and only used when necessary (which is in many occasions when making decisions) and without egoic attachment to them? In such a world, everyone would merely be and not feel more or less important than others - everyone would be fully transparent in their words all the time, and the biological nature of humans would take precedence over the kilometers-long pile of thoughts we have accumulated and cast over society like an obfuscating blanket. We could still seek progress and make discovery and debate ideas and all of that, but without any identification with those constructs and our own ego, understanding that everything arises and fades away naturally through the course of time.