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I like to burn things. Not a pyro, per se, just love the heat. It’s not even about fire, necessarily. (altho’ there’s nothing quite as cool & primal as fire). Life, like the material in a fire, is to be burnt, & sent to heaven. We are all on fire, burning for whatever glory strikes us, maybe wasting it even, all moving on to the next, hereafter. But in the meantime we can come together, help each other, live this life, share love, guiding & following each other to any meaningful end that we deem to be the way. On fire, & feeling the flames of experience engulf & transform us - into living art – for each other.

I tantricly receive all I’m guided to, be it food, music, friendships, work, art, play (definitely), & certainly making love. All of life is to be savored fervently, & sacrificed selflessly. All is to be had; the sacred & the profane. Burned completely! Or not, it’s up to each of us; how we view it, interpret it, live it. Giving or taking as we may. I don’t think there’s really a right or wrong way here.

One Buddhist sentiment goes: Embracefully, releasefully. Meaning, to be in every action we take; completely, enjoying it for what it is, & when we are done, to let go completely; releasing the desire & therefore the suffering that we create when our preferences are not satisfied – this is something I am ever learning. Life is always new, no matter what time you think it is.

So anyway, I see no rules here other than the restrictions we place on ourselves as a society (that is another story). We all get to be who we want, when we remember that it Is for us to intuit & interpret as we see fit. This life is for us to live, learn, evolve in. It’s that or to create havoc, be lazy & harm. Personally, I’m on a path of finding the most joyful & helpful lifestyle possible. Or at least as often as I can muster.

As to my name: I see myself as a cog in the machinery of this reality (so therefore COG) . The cycle of births & deaths, as it were. Also as part of our societal responsibilities go, I am a cog in that machine as well. But I am also a Child Of God, a Child Of Gaia, a Child Of Genius, also as in Cognitive & so on. I choose to place the importance on being of the universal energy that creates us, surrounds us, that we are a part of & that we are never separate from; a COG in the matrix of life. A mechanism I enjoy but hope to be free of at some point in existence: fully realized & totally aware. Which is a hope for us all someday; to finally be complete & one.
Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi, svaha!

So enough of the bs, let's burn something! I hope to make friends with all of you out there.

Peace & love

Cog