Episode 36: Can We Meet the World Without Being Reactive?
Release Date: 02/06/2023
Episode 58: The Courage to Stay Open: discovering the radiance of being at the core of all experiences
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 open when life hurts, when fear arises, when the ego contracts in self-protection? Why is openness central to freedom and not merely a psychological tool? With clarity, tenderness, and depth, they examine how our culture teaches closure and how the path of awakening is a journey into the radiance of being, which is always open. This conversation points to the heart of non-dual realization, while also offering gentle guidance for...
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Episode 57: The Power of Aloneness and the Path to Wholeness
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 opens into a deep inquiry into the root of human suffering — the existential sense of separation. Together, they examine the many ways we habitually distract ourselves from the rawness of being — from the small everyday impulses to keep busy, to the deeper patterns of addiction, emotional avoidance, and compulsive seeking. At the heart of this inquiry lies a powerful invitation: to stop running from the quiet, and instead turn inward...
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Episode 56: Awakening in an Accelerating World
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 book Embodied Enlightenment, highlighting how humanity is at a pivotal evolutionary moment where consciousness is becoming aware of itself through us. Despite the turmoil and division in the world, this darkness serves as a catalyst for transformation, challenging individuals to either collapse into fear or embrace a radical shift in awareness. Rather than offering a utopian vision of mass ascension, they discuss how the...
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Episode 55: The Simplicity of Surrender, An Exploration of the Path of Awakening
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 vibrant aliveness and intelligence of life itself. They also explore some of the misconceptions of enlightenment, some of the common challenges on this journey, and emphasize the simplicity of the exhale into presence.
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Episode 54: Awakening to Love's True Nature
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 explore the difference between transactional love and an unbounded love that cannot be compromised or negotiated, and how this relates to the shift from ego-identity to awakened consciousness. Can love be known as a wholeness that is already present in being? Can love be the recognition of one’s innate completeness? And what does it take to embody this knowing in everyday life?
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Episode 53: The Gift of Uncertainty
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 dissolution of the ego can be profound gifts on the journey to inner freedom. By accepting life's inherent impermanence, a transformative resilience emerges, where feelings and experiences are no longer held as personal identities but as natural waves within open awareness. This journey invites a life lived in silent awareness and surrender, where each moment becomes an opportunity to meet reality without resistance or the need for...
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Episode 52: Is Community Important on the Spiritual Path?
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 spiritual path. Together they explore the benefits of community, why it serves a purpose for many seekers, and how it can have an impact on our lives by providing a safe container for honesty, authenticity, and deep friendships. Amoda and Kavi also talk about why they have recently launched the “Field of Love” Online Global Community.
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Episode 51: Reclaiming the Divine
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 and what it means to reclaim our divinity. Together they touch in topics such as the externalization of God in religion, the impact on individuals and society of being disconnected from our God-essence, and the possibility of remembering the wholeness of God within as our essential nature.
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Episode 50: Spirituality in the Marketplace
Conversations with Amoda Maa
In this podcast episode, we explore the contemporary culture of spirituality within the marketplace of life. Unlike in previous ages when immersion into the spiritual life was a total devotion by becoming a monk or living on the metaphorical mountaintop, or else took place in the latter years of one’s life when householder duties were over, today spirituality has filtered into the mainstream culture. Amoda Maa is in conversation with host and husband, Kavi, talking about whether this spiritual filtering into the everyday life has changed the nature of the spiritual path and if there...
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Episode 49: Personality Types and Awakening
Conversations with Amoda Maa
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 that are more oriented towards the dissolution of ego-identity? Is the doorway to awakening the same for all individuals even though personal characteristics vary widely? And has the personality have anything at all to do with the recognition and abiding in true nature?
info_outlineIn 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 whether this makes a difference to our individual and collective reality.
The poem Kavi quotes at the start of this podcast is:
The storm rages
The lighthouse stands
Rooted in stillness
Casting its light
Into the darkness.