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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 2002

Healing the Wounds of the World

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

Dharma Rain

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

Being Present: An Invitation to Insight Meditation

  • Michael Grady
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

Skinny Gotamī and the Mustard Seed

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

Zazen Is Not the Same as Meditation

  • Issho Fujita
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

The Buddha Taught Nonviolence, Not Pacifism

  • Paul Fleischman
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

Full Ordination for Nuns Restored in Sri Lanka

  • Ani Jutima
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2002

A Beautiful Paradox

  • Paula Green
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

The Moon Released (Theragāthā 871-873)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

Leaving No Trace

  • Nancy Waring
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

A Simple Matter of Choice?

  • Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

Healing or Harming

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article

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