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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 Fall 2005

An Organic Spirituality

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

Buddha in the Forest (Samyutta Nikaya 7:18)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

Understanding the Meditative Process

  • Jason Siff
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

A Verb for Nirvana

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

Understanding the Hindrances

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

Lights Upon the Path: Great Faith, Great Courage, Great Questioning

  • Martine Batchelor
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

The Buddha’s Last Word: Care

  • Stephen Batchelor
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

A Tiny Dot in a Vast Universe

  • Issho Fujita
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2005

Interconnected…Or Not?

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2004

The Steadfast Family Man (Anguttara Nikaya 5:40 & 3:48)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2004

What Is Mindfulness… And Why Is It Important to Therapists?

  • Christopher Germer
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2004

Lessons from an Illness

  • Marilyn Judson
  • Article

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