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Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living Inquiry
Conversations with Amoda Maa offers intimate dialogues with spiritual teacher and author Amoda Maa, exploring the nature of awareness, presence, and inner freedom. These unscripted conversations unfold as a living inquiry—inviting listeners to rest, listen, and discover what is already present beyond stories of self and mind. No techniques or belief systems—just a quiet exploration of being, as it is. Hosted by Kavi. Discover more at www.amodamaa.com
Episodes
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Stillness That Cannot Be Disturbed | Beyond the Quiet Mind
Stillness is not a state to be achieved, nor is it the absence of thought, emotion, or disturbance. It is the ever-present ground of being, the silent openness…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Radiance of Being | What Is Always Here
Beneath the constant movement of thought, emotion, and experience is something profoundly simple: the undeniable fact of being. Yet this simplicity is so often…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 73: Awakening Is Beyond Experience | What Cannot Be Lost
What if awakening is not an experience at all? In this episode of Conversations with Amoda Maa, Amoda and Kavi explore one of the most persistent…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Search for Peace | What Happens When Seeking Ends
In this bonus episode, taken from a recent online retreat, Amoda Maa explores one of the most fundamental movements of the human experience: the search for…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryWhen Attention Comes to Rest in Itself
In this bonus episode, taken from a recent online public meeting, Amoda Maa explores the deeply ingrained habit of attention contracting around the objects of…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Quiet Revelation of True Nature
Awakening is often imagined as something dramatic—a powerful energetic shift, an extraordinary state, a moment in which everything suddenly changes. But the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 72: The Depth of Surrender | When You Stop Arguing With Life
In this conversation, Amoda Maa and Kavi explore surrender not as defeat, passivity or giving away our authority, but as a profound softening of the grasping…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryLet It Be: When Nothing Needs to Be Fixed
In this bonus episode Amoda explores what it means to live from the quietness of being without withdrawing from the movement of life. Thoughts, emotions…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Light of Being in Everyday Life: When Awakening Becomes Fully Lived
In this bonus episode, Amoda explores what happens when awakening is no longer held as a transcendent state, spiritual attainment, or identity, but begins to…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryClear Seeing: The End of Separation and the Soft Inner Gaze
In this bonus episode, recorded during Amoda's recent retreat in Europe, she speaks about clear seeing as the essence of awakening. Ordinarily, we do not see…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 71: The Quietness of Awakening: Amoda Maa on Suffering, Surrender & Freedom
In this beautiful and intimate conversation, Amoda Maa explores the quietness at the center of being and the deeper realization that true peace is not the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryBeyond the Practice of Presence
Presence is often treated as something we must cultivate through effort or practice. In this discourse, Amoda Maa points to a deeper recognition: presence is…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 70: Coming Home to the Clear Light of Being
In this opening discourse from Amoda Maa's first seven-day retreat in Europe, Amoda invites us to discover the clear light of being—not as a mystical…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Presence That Is Always Here
In this bonus podcast, Amoda points to the quiet truth of being that remains when the layers of identity begin to loosen. As we stop deriving our sense of self…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 69: The Freedom of Not Knowing
In this conversation, Amoda Maa explores what it means to live beyond the psychological need for certainty. While practical planning has its place, much of our…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Quiet Radiance of Being | Everything Belongs
In this bonus episode, Amoda offers a discourse from The Radiance of Being online retreat (November 2025). She explores what it truly means to welcome life as…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquirySeeing Through the Veil of Separation
In this bonus episode from The Radiance of Being online retreat (November 2025), Amoda explores one of the deepest assumptions of the human mind: the belief…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 68: The Mystery of Grace | A Special Gathering with Amoda Maa & Kavi
In this special episode of Conversations with Amoda Maa, we share a live online gathering inspired by Kavi's new poetry collection, Poems of Grace. Together…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Willingness to End Resistance
In this bonus episode from The Unveiling the Self Online Retreat, Amoda Maa explores the profound freedom that becomes available when we stop resisting our…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 67: A Peace Beyond Understanding
What is true peace — and can it be discovered in the midst of life's uncertainty, conflict, and disturbance? This episode of Conversations with Amoda Maa…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryWhat Is Closer Than Your Seeking?
In this short discourse, Amoda Maa explores one of the most common misunderstandings on the spiritual path: the belief that awakening is a special experience…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 66: Ending the Search: Discovering What Has Never Been Lost
In this conversation, Amoda Maa and Kavi explore the nature of seeking and the possibility of its end. What often begins as a genuine longing for truth, peace…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryDie Before You Die | The End of the Self and the Discovery of Freedom
This episode features a discourse from Amoda Maa's online program Die Before You Die, offering a profound and intimate exploration into the nature of death…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryTo Know God, You Must Welcome Everything
This special bonus episode from Amoda Maa explores the nature of God, not as a distant entity or belief system, but as the very fabric of existence itself…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryBeyond Mindfulness: Discovering Awareness Itself
In this contemplative inquiry, Amoda invites us beyond the familiar practice of mindfulness and into a deeper recognition: awareness itself. Most of us live…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe End of the Seeker
In this talk, Amoda Maa explores the nature of the seeker and what is truly meant by its end. At a certain point on the path, a deeper question arises: who is…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryThe Emptiness at the Heart of Being
In this talk, Amoda Maa speaks about what many on the spiritual path secretly dread — the emptiness at the heart of being. We spend much of life trying to…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 65: The Ego Is Not a Thing — Seeing Through the Sense of Self
In this episode of Conversations with Amoda Maa, Amoda and Kavi explore one of the most misunderstood topics on the spiritual path: the ego. Rather than…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryAfter Awakening — Living Realization in Ordinary Life
After awakening, a natural question often arises: how does realization live itself out in ordinary life? In this bonus episode, Amoda Maa explores the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 64: The Quiet Whisper of Truth — Awakening and the Direct Path
In this special episode, Amoda Maa shares selected passages from her book Unveiling the Light of Being, including reflections from the introduction, "The…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 63: The True Feminine and Masculine in Awakening — Beyond Gender and Distortion
What is the true feminine and masculine in awakening — and how have these principles become distorted in both women and men? In this intimate conversation…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 62: Do You Need a Guru to Awaken? - Osho, Transmission and the Field of Love
In this episode Amoda and Kavi explore a question that has echoed through the centuries of spiritual seeking: Do you need a guru to awaken? Throughout history…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 61: The Embodiment of the Light of Awakening in Ordinary Life
In this talk, Amoda Maa invites us turn from the recognition of the light of being to its embodiment — the lived expression of awakening in the midst of…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 60: Does Enlightenment Lead to a Perfect Life?
A special episode: In this talk, Amoda Maa dismantles the persistent myth that awakening or enlightenment delivers a perfect, pain-free, or effortless life…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 59: Unveiling the Light of Being: Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Openness
In this episode of 'Conversations with Amoda Maa,' Amoda and Kavi explore what she calls the "light (radiance) of being"—our essential, quality-less nature…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 58: The Courage to Stay Open: discovering the radiance of being at the core of all experiences
In this intimate face-to-face conversation, Kavi and Amoda explore one of the most vital themes of the spiritual path—openness. What does it truly mean to stay…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 57: The Power of Aloneness and the Path to Wholeness
In this episode, Kavi and Amoda explore the subtle but profound shift from loneliness to aloneness. What begins as a reflection on the discomfort of solitude…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 56: Awakening in an Accelerating World
In this conversation, Amoda Maa and Kavi explore the intensity of our times as both a crisis and an opportunity for awakening. Amoda shares insights from her…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 55: The Simplicity of Surrender, An Exploration of the Path of Awakening
In this podcast episode, Amoda Maa and Kavi are in conversation about the possibility of an ongoing moment-to-moment surrender to "what is", revealing the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 54: Awakening to Love's True Nature
In this podcast episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi (host, husband, and co-founder of the Amoda Maa Foundation) about the true nature of love. They…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 53: The Gift of Uncertainty
In this podcast episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi (host, husband, and co-founder of Amoda Maa Foundation) about how embracing uncertainty and the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 52: Is Community Important on the Spiritual Path?
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi (husband, host, and co-founder of the Amoda Maa Foundation) about the role of community on the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 51: Reclaiming the Divine
In this podcast episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with her host and husband, Kavi, talking about how humanity has lost the inner connection with the divine…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 50: Spirituality in the Marketplace
In this podcast episode, we explore the contemporary culture of spirituality within the marketplace of life. Unlike in previous ages when immersion into the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 49: Personality Types and Awakening
In this episode, we will be exploring whether it's easier for certain personality types to awaken than other types. Are there certain traits and tendencies…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 48: Crisis as a Catalyst for Inner Transformation
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with her podcast host and husband, Kavi, about the possibility of crisis as a catalyst for inner transformation…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 47: What is Your Life's Purpose?
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with her podcast host and husband, Kavi, about purpose and fulfillment in life. Together they dive into the…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 46: The Inner Revolution That Changes Everything
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi (host) and together they explore the possibility of an inner revolution of consciousness that can shift…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 45: What Happens to Relationships After Awakening?
In this episode, Amoda Maa responds to a question from a listener about relationships after awakening. She wants to know if the nature of friendships and…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 44: Does the Body Matter in Spiritual Awakening?
In this episode, Kavi invites Amoda Maa to discuss the role of the body in awakening. Together they explore how to reconcile the deepest realization of true…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 43: Amoda Maa Explores J. Krishnamurti's Statement "I Don't Mind What Happens"
In this episode, Kavi invites Amoda Maa to explore the essence of Jiddu Krishnamurti's teachings by asking her to comment on his famous statement "The…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 42: Spiritual Awakening and Meeting Death Consciously Now
In this episode, host Kavi is in conversation with Amoda Maa about the parallel between the journey of spiritual awakening and the journey of life between…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 41: Living the Truth of Nondual Realization
In this episode, host Kavi is in conversation with Amoda Maa about the possibility of going beyond an intellectual understanding of nonduality. Together they…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 40: What Are Heaven and Hell?
In this episode, host Kavi is in conversation with Amoda Maa about the deeper meaning of heaven and hell. Together they explore how heaven and hell are…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 39: Tantra and Nonduality — Two Approaches to Enlightenment
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the deeper essence of the tantric and nondual approaches to enlightenment. Together they explore…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 38: Freedom Beyond Knowledge
In this episode, Amoda is in conversation with Kavi about the freedom that is available when we meet reality beyond conceptualization. Together they explore…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 37: Art, Stillness and Awakened Consciousness (with David Ellzey)
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with David Ellzey to explore the relationship between the spiritual path and expression from a place of inner…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 36: Can We Meet the World Without Being Reactive?
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi, and together they explore the possibility of meeting the world from a non-reactive place within and…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 35: Openness, Awareness, and Freedom
In this episode, Amoda Maa is in conversation with Kavi about the recognition of openness as our essential nature and how this is the foundation of true…
Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living InquiryEpisode 34: The Metaphor of the Crucifixion
In this episode, Amoda Maa speaks with Kavi about the metaphor of the crucifixion and how it relates to the spiritual journey. Together they explore the nature…