How Interpreting Our Experience is the Cause of Suffering | Amoda Maa

Amoda Maa talks about how the cause of suffering is not rooted in external events but in our automatic, habitual interpretations of those events. We often interpret painful experiences as negative, reinforcing unexamined beliefs about ourselves, like being unworthy of love. Conversely, we interpret positive experiences as affirmations of success or divine favor, which also fuels suffering because these experiences, like all phenomena, are temporary. Amoda Maa points to a freedom that is beyond interpretation. (This video is taken from a discourse given at the "Portals to the Infinite" 5-week Online Gathering, September 2024).

Amoda Maa offers a profound invitation to all those who wish to embody the truth of awakened consciousness in the midst of everyday life. Her teachings are free of any ideology and are not affiliated with any lineage or tradition. And yet the luminous truth expressed through these teachings is the same nondual understanding at the core of many spiritual traditions. Amoda Maa’s teachings are expressed in a contemporary language, thereby cutting through millennia of patriarchal structure and making them relevant and accessible to all people from all backgrounds and cultures.

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