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

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The Dharma of Plants: Editor’s Introduction

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The Pine Tree Koan

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Reflections on Insight Dialogue with an Amaryllis Plant in the Depth of Winter

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Zen Reflections on the Dharma of Plants

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On the (In)sentience and Buddha-nature of Plants

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

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Do It!

Full Moon January 19 2011

Words Well Said

Mindfulness for Children

Freedom Through Not Knowing

Bozobots

Emptiness and Freedom

Bursting the Bubbles

The Radical Buddha

Metta in Anguttara Nikaya

Full Moon Nov 21 2010

Itivuttaka 3:7

Full Moon Dec 21 2010

Metta in Other Suttas

Full Moon Oct 22 2010

Metta Sutta Verse 10

Full Moon Sep 21 2010