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

Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living Inquiry is a religion podcast hosted by Amoda Maa, with 89 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Amoda Maa hosts Conversations with Amoda Maa - Exploring Awareness Through Dialogue and Living Inquiry, a religion show with 89 episodes published.

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  The Search for Peace | What Happens When Seeking Ends

  Oct 1, 202615 min

  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 peace. We often imagine that peace will come when something changes—when the body feels better, the relationship becomes more harmonious, the future feels more certain, the mind becomes quiet, or we finally reach some spiritual state of completion. But when peace is always located in the next moment, this moment becomes something to move away from. Amoda invites us to look closely at this subtle mechanism of seeking and at the inner tension created by trying to manage experience, circumstances, emotions, relationships, and even consciousness itself. Rather than asking, "How can I find peace?" she points toward a more direct inquiry: what happens when we stop moving away from this moment? True peace is not found in perfecting the content of experience, but in recognizing the aware presence that remains unchanged beneath the continual movement of thought, feeling, sensation, and circumstance. The episode closes with a period of silence and a simple invitation to discover, directly, what remains when the movement of seeking begins to soften.

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  When Attention Comes to Rest in Itself

  Sep 24, 202615 min

  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 experience — our thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, problems, and plans. When attention becomes bound up with experience, identity becomes bound up with it too: I am this thought. I am this feeling. I am this difficulty. From here arises the constant attempt to manage, control, fix, reject, or change what is happening. Amoda invites a different possibility: the relaxation of attention. Not as a withdrawal from experience or an attempt to get rid of anything, but as a softening of the habitual movement toward experience. Sounds can simply be heard, sensations felt, emotions allowed to move, without immediately turning them into something that must be interpreted or resolved. As this habit gradually loosens, something quieter begins to reveal itself — the openness of being that is already here beneath all movement. Awakening, Amoda suggests, need not be a dramatic event or a special state to attain. More often, it is a gradual unveiling of what has never been absent. The invitation is not to manufacture stillness, but to become available to the presence that is already here.

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  Episode #72

  Episode 72: The Depth of Surrender | When You Stop Arguing With Life

  Sep 10, 202654 min

  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 mind. Beginning with Amoda's teaching on "the soft stop," they look at the habitual movement to control, resist, interpret and resolve our experience — and what becomes possible when that movement begins to loosen. The conversation moves deeply into uncertainty, grief, loss, love and impermanence, revealing surrender not as a spiritual technique or destination, but as a way of meeting life itself. When the argument with this moment ends, even briefly, a deeper intelligence, openness and freedom can reveal itself.

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  Let It Be: When Nothing Needs to Be Fixed

  Sep 3, 202613 min

  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, fears, reactions and disappointments continue to arise, but they no longer have to define who we are or become the authority through which we interpret every experience. Through fear, sadness, contraction and triggers, Amoda points to the possibility of a shift in allegiance: away from the personal story and toward the silent openness in which all experience appears. When we stop asking what every feeling means about "me," even difficult experiences can become doorways into a deeper intelligence, tenderness and intimacy with what is. This is awakening not as a distant attainment, but as a moment-by-moment return to what is already here. From a recent online event in 2026.

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  The Light of Being in Everyday Life: When Awakening Becomes Fully Lived

  Aug 27, 202619 min

  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 permeate the ordinary movements of human life. She speaks about the subtle ways the self can appropriate realization, turning even openness, stillness, or spiritual experience into something to possess, preserve, or return to. When that movement of ownership relaxes, the light of being begins to express itself more naturally through relationship, action, listening, and the nervous system itself. This living realization reveals itself in quieter and often very human ways: less reactivity, less defensiveness, less need for validation, and less identification with fixed roles or positions. In its place comes a greater capacity to listen, to respond without agenda, and to allow life to move with more openness and freedom. Awakening, then, is not about becoming a perfected spiritual self. It is about allowing realization to become fully lived. This discourse was given at a 7-day retreat held at San Damiano Retreat Center in California, May 2026.

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