Conversations with Amoda Maa

About Conversations with Amoda Maa

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

Publisher

Amoda Maa

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 May 2021

Latest episode

29 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

93 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Oct 2026

   The 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 in which all experience arises and dissolves. In this week's bonus episode, Amoda Maa explores the profound difference between seeking a quiet mind and recognizing the stillness that is already here. When we mistake stillness for a particular state, we become caught in the endless pursuit of peace, imagining that every difficult emotion or restless thought takes us further away from freedom. But true stillness is never lost. It remains untouched by the changing movements of experience, even in the midst of agitation, uncertainty, and emotional intensity. Amoda illuminates a beautiful paradox: the deeper we recognize this unchanging stillness, the more intimate we become with life. Rather than withdrawing from experience, we discover the freedom to meet it fully, without resistance. True liberation does not require life to become still. It is the recognition of what has always been free within life itself.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026

   The 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 overlooked in our fascination with the changing circumstances of life and our habitual tendency to make everything about "me." In this bonus episode, recorded during a recent daylong gathering in Berkeley, Amoda explores how the constant movement of self-referencing creates an internal noise that reinforces the sense of separation and keeps us searching for peace and fulfillment in the content of experience. Even the spiritual search can become part of this movement, as we imagine awakening to be an extraordinary experience waiting somewhere in the future. But the extraordinary is already here, hidden in the very simplicity of being. Through a direct and penetrating exploration, Amoda invites us to look beyond the habitual grasping and resisting of experience and discover the quiet radiance that remains untouched by life's changing circumstances. This is not an invitation to withdraw from life or deny the human experience, but to recognize the lightness and freedom that become apparent when we no longer create a separate self out of everything that happens.

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   8 Oct 2026

   Episode 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 misunderstandings on the spiritual path: the belief that awakening will arrive as a particular experience — perhaps a state of bliss, unity, expanded consciousness, or profound peace. Amoda speaks to the essential difference between an experience, which inevitably comes and goes, and awakening itself, which cannot be gained, maintained, or lost. Spiritual openings and profound states may have great value, but they can also become something the seeker grasps onto, claims, or attempts to recreate. The conversation moves beyond the search for spiritual experience into the deeper questions of what remains when every experience passes, what happens when identification with the personhood falls away, and why genuine awakening can be both profoundly transformative and surprisingly ordinary. Amoda also speaks personally about her own awakening, the unexpected unfolding of her role as a spiritual teacher, and what it means when life is no longer experienced through the lens of personal authorship. Ultimately, the conversation arrives at something simpler still: awake presence recognizing itself, and the fragrance of love that is revealed when the veil of separation falls away. A candid and intimate exploration of awakening, ego, awareness, spiritual experience, and what cannot be lost.

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YouTube views

1,309,389

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

22 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

85

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