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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 2012

The Busier You Are, The Slower You Should Go

  • Martine Batchelor
Full Moon October 29, 2012
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

The Arrows of Thinking

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
Full Moon September 29, 2012
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

A Conversation with Bhikkhu Anālayo

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
Full Moon August 31, 2011
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

The Language We Use to Talk about Meditative Experiences

  • Jason Siff
Full Moon July 3, 2012
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Mindfulness & the Cognitive Process

  • John Peacock
Full Moon June 6, 2012
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Getting Out of the Romantic Gate

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
Full Moon May 5, 2012
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Dhammapada 13

  • Andrew Olendzki
Full Moon April 6, 2012
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Teaching Mindfulness to Children

  • Christopher Willard, Psy.D.
Full Moon March 8, 2012
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Mindfulness in Buddhism & Psychology

  • Christopher Germer
Full Moon February 7, 2012
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2012

Going Forth: A Buddhist Approach to Retirement & Old Age

  • Mu Soeng
Full Moon January 9, 2012
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2011

What’s Left of the True Teaching

  • Andrew Olendzki
Full Moon Dec 10 2011
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2011

What Feels Right about Right Action?

  • Jake Davis
Full Moon Nov 10 2011
  • Article

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