Recommendations you can check.
by Daniel M. Ingram, 2008
Who uses, recommends or left Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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The result is a sort of perfect antidote to the vague hippie-ism you get from a lot of spirituality.
SSC review of Ingram's meditation manual.
2017-09-18·slatestarcodex.com ↗
Core Teachings of the Buddha, free online.
Replying on X to a request for book recommendations on happiness from a Buddhist perspective.
2016-02-22·x.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.