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The Insight Journal

Published since 1989, Insight Journal offers Dharma articles of lasting interest, including original writing, illuminating interviews, transcripts, excerpts, and sutta study. The Journal provides critical and exegetical reflections on Buddhist traditions and practices, grounded in a broad comparative perspective. 

Explore and experience the profound insights of Buddhist inquiry with this freely offered resource and online archive.

Summer 2024

By
  • Karin Meyers

The Dharma of Plants: Editor’s Introduction
By
  • Mushim Patricia Ikeda

The Pine Tree Koan
By
  • Janet Surrey

Reflections on Insight Dialogue with an Amaryllis Plant in the Depth of Winter
By
  • Jason Wirth

Zen Reflections on the Dharma of Plants
By
  • Karin Meyers

On the (In)sentience and Buddha-nature of Plants
By
  • Ayya Santacitta

Practicing with a Plant Ally: A Guided Meditation: Exploring a Question from within the Web of Life
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  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

  • Joseph Goldstein
Full Moon October 18, 2013
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

MIT Meets the Monastery

  • Rajesh Kasturirangan
Full Moon September 2013
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

Secular Buddhism: New vision or yet another of the myths it claims to cure?

  • Akincano Weber
Full Moon August 20, 2013
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

The Essence of Dhamma

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
Full Moon July 22, 2013
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

“Seeing” the Āsavas

  • Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Full Moon June 23, 2013
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

Meeting Your Thoughts At a Resting Place

  • Jason Siff
Full Moon May 25, 2013
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

New rivers, new rafts: The Secular Buddhism Conference

  • Chris Talbott
Full Moon April 25, 2013
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

Wheels of Fire: The Buddha’s Radical Teaching on Process

  • Lila Kate Wheeler
Full Moon March 27, 2013
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

True & False: Dharma After the Western Enlightenment

  • Rita Gross
Full Moon February 25, 2013
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2013

Honoring a Life & Legacy in the Dhamma: Mirka Knaster on Munindra

  • Mirka Knaster
Full Moon January 26, 2013
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

A Classical Future: Interview with Insight Journal Editor

  • Chris Talbott
Full Moon December 28, 2012
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Unburdened With Duties & Frugal In Our Ways

  • Tony Bernhard
Full Moon November 28, 2012
  • Article

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