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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 2022

All Cops Are Buddhas (ACAB): Stretching our Empathy and Defunding the Police

  • Katie Loncke
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

Finding Zen: Strength In The Dharma And The Sword

  • Cristina Moon
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

Going in, reaching out: The Dharma in us and amongst us

  • Pascal Auclair, Eva Seligman
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

A Dharma Heart for These Times

  • Thanissara
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

Editor’s Letter: Paradigm Shifts

  • Eva Seligman
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

The Bhara Sutta

  • Mu Soeng
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

Interdependence and Healing: Natalie Avalos on Practice, Scholarship, and the Liberating Power of Ceremony

  • Natalie Avalos, Eva Seligman
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

In Memoriam: Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Sallie B. King
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Friendship, the Whole of Life Well-lived

  • Janet Surrey, Charles Hallisey
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Grieving for the Buddha: Three Cambodian Songs

  • Trent Walker
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Reflections on Nibbana

  • Joseph Goldstein
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

The Interplay Between Meditation Theory and Practice

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article

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