Kim Eng Audiobooks

The instruction is in the title, and it is not a comfortable one. Resist Nothing asks for the opposite of what most people do when life turns awkward, and Kim Eng puts that proposition at the front rather than building up to it over several chapters.

Just over two hours, filed across wellbeing, personal development and spirituality, indicates something closer to a teaching than to a book in the conventional sense. Material of this kind is meant to be practised rather than merely finished, which is why the running time matters far less than how often you return to it.

Kim Eng also delivers it, and in contemplative work the voice is not a delivery mechanism but part of the instruction: the pace of the speaking sets the pace of the listening.

Self-narrated and compact, this is designed for repetition. Two hours and change means it can be revisited without the guilt that attaches to restarting something long.

It has been in circulation since 2012 without accumulating a rating tally worth quoting, which is entirely normal for spoken practice material; people use it rather than review it. Best approached in a quiet room with nothing else demanding your attention, and best judged after a second or third listen rather than a first. Anyone drawn to acceptance-based practice, or looking for something to sit with rather than get through, will know quickly whether this speaks to them. What is gathered below will point the way.