What is a reason to be happy to be alive: Question from Beauty Q&A with Tatyana Sussex

https://tatyanasussex.substack.com/p/beauty-q-and-a-with-clare-dimond?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play


From Tatyana: 

Dear Beautiful Friends,

Are you ready for a mini-PhD in reality, freedom, and the awakened life—with some laughter thrown in?

Meet my beloved teacher, guide, coach, friend, and playmate of the past three amazing years, Clare Dimond. I’m going to introduce her by going straight to the very last question I ask in my Beauty Q&As, because Clare’s answer is so 🤯 and 🐒 and 😱 and 💫 with a little 🧚‍♀️ thrown in.

Me: What is a reason to be happy to be alive today?


Clare: There aren’t any.*

Clare is not nihilistic nor misanthropic; she is a teacher and author in the field of non-duality, an understanding that addresses (in a nutshell) the nature of reality and pokes at the truth behind suffering and the separate self. You might call it intimacy with all things, the Oneness of life. Clare’s groups and teachings are conversations that point in the direction of what it means to be alive in our bodies as infinite awareness and unconditional love.

Something like that! I have been learning/working/studying/playing with Clare in this space for three years and still come up short with the right language to describe this field of exploration and awakening. 

*Because we don’t need a reason to be happy to be alive, and any reason we come up with is only true for a fleeting moment, then it changes.

Let’s cut to the good part shall we? WATCH THE VIDEO

We slowed down, went past the 20 minutes limit and explored beauty, how it is an unconditional quality of life and can be a portal to awakening, freedom, expansion.

We also talked about:

• What is Beauty & Does It Matter?
• The Artist’s Way
• Positive affirmations
• Is the natural world calling us to be a collaborator in life?
• Being a human in a troubled world—how the hell do you cope?
• Going deep with our fears about global issues
• What does the world want from us?
• How to rhumba on the playfield of life.
• Mystery as beauty, beauty as mystery.
• How does a non-dual philosophy teacher & author play?
• Distinctions between work & play, clients & friends.