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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 2007

Only the Mountain Remains: Practicing in Nature

  • Mark Coleman
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Summer 2007

Sharpening Mañjuśrī’s Sword

  • Leigh Brasington
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Summer 2007

Making the Best of It

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

Beyond Joy and Sorrow

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

There’s More to Giving Than We Think

  • Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

Seeking the Seeker

  • Jack Engler
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

The Case Against Racism

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

Teaching Buddhism in America

  • Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Dharma Talk
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

The Three Institutional Poisons: Challenging Collective Greed, Ill Will, & Delusion

  • David Loy
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Winter 2006

This World Is Not Yours

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2006

Fully Quenched

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2006

Working with Anger

  • Harvey Aronson
  • Article

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