Disc 1. The meaning of the meaning of life ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: choice and daily life ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: discipline and duty ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: union and purpose ; Aristotle on life: the big picture ; Aristotle: the highest good --
disc 2. Aristotle: the happy life ; Job's predicament: life is so unfair ; Job's challenge: who are we? ; Stoicism: rationality and acceptance ; Human finitude: the epicurean synthesis ; Confucius: order in the cosmos and in life --
disc 3. Daodejing: the Dao of life and spontaneity ; Daodejing: the best life is a simple life ; Daodejing: sublety and paradox ; Zhuangzi on Daoism: impermanence and harmony ; The teachings of the Buddha ; Śāntideva: Mahayana Buddhism --
disc 4. Śāntideva: transforming the mind ; Zen: the moon in a dewdrop and impermanence ; Zen: being-time and primordial awakening ; Taking stock of the classical world ; Hume's skepticism and the place of God ; Hume's careless and compassionate vision --
disc 5. Kant: immaturity and the challenge to know ; Mill's call to individuality and to liberty ; Tolstoy: is everyday life the real thing? ; Nietzsche: Twilight of the idiots ; Nietzsche: achieving authenticity ; Gandhi: Satyāgraha and holding fast to truth --
disc 6. Gandhi: the call to a supernormal life ; Lame Deer: life enfolded in symbols ; Lame Deer: our place in a symbolic world ; HH Dalai Lama XIV: a modern Buddhist view ; HH Dalai Lama XIV: discernment and happiness ; So, what is the meaning of life?