Essential Spirituality

The Buddha and the Quantum: Hearing the Voice of Every Cell

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Samuel Avery
• Narrated By Samuel Avery

Are you seeking a deeper understanding of consciousness? Are you interested in meditation or currently practicing meditation? The Buddha and the Quantum is about the connection between meditation and physics. Many books show parallels between consciousness and physics; a few of these attempt to explain consciousness in terms of the physics of everyday experience. This is the only book that explains physics and the everyday world in terms of consciousness alone.

Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Mayank Chhaya
• Narrated By Paul English

An authorized biography of one of the world's greatest spiritual leaders.

Written with the full co-operation of the Dalai Lama, this fascinating, up-to-date biography captures the public persona and enduring mystery behind one of the world's most important spiritual leaders.

The Seeker's Guide

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Elizabeth Lesser
• Narrated By Elizabeth Lesser

America has given birth to a wisdom tradition entirely its own, a spirituality that is as diverse as its people, and that respects the freedom and uniqueness of each individual. Judeo-Christian traditions and the meditation practices of Asia and India...modern science and Native American teachings...Sufism and transpersonal psychology - The New American Spirituality explores what happens when these and other traditions cohabitate our unique cultural landscape.

Abiding in Mindfulness, Volume 1: The Body

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Joseph Goldstein
• Narrated By Joseph Goldstein

In the words of the Buddha, the four foundations of mindfulness (the four satipatthanas) are "the direct path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of dukkha (suffering) and discontent, for acquiring the true method, for the realization of Nibbana." Within the quintessential discourse called the Satipatthana Sutta, we find the Buddha's seminal teachings about the practice of meditation.

A Leader's Legacy

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 53 mins)
• By James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
• Narrated By James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
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Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, internationally recognized experts in the field of leadership and authors of the best-selling Leadership Challenge, explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact. In a series of 22 short essays, grouped into four parts (significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage), the authors explore the thorny and often ambiguous issues that today's leaders grapple with.