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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 Summer 2010

Cherish the Nuns

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2010 - Metta

Metta Sutta Verse 3

  • Andrew Olendzki
Full Moon Feb 28 2010
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2010 - Metta

Metta Sutta Verse 2

  • Andrew Olendzki
Full Moon Jan 30 2010
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2010 - Metta

Metta Sutta Verse 1

  • Andrew Olendzki
Full Moon Dec 31 2009
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

Free of Fear

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

Killing Me Softly with Dharma

  • Kristy Arbon
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

Shin Buddhism

  • Mark Unno
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

The Good Sal Tree: Bhadda-Sala Jataka, No. 465

  • Margo McLoughlin
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

Working with Perception

  • Ajahn Sucitto
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

A Simple Turning in Place: Forty Years in the Dharma

  • Joseph Goldstein
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2009

Here and Now

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Summer 2009

The Greatest Happiness

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem

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