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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 2001

Stillness and Insight

  • Christina Feldman
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

How to Understand

  • Joseph Goldstein
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

Tapas

  • Paul Fleischman
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 2001

It Can Be Very Simple

  • Ajahn Sundarā
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

Stealing the Scent (Saṃyutta Nikāya 9:14)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

Body People, Mind People

  • Larry Rosenberg
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

Snowstorm in a Cabin in the Woods

  • Paul Fleischman
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

The Light of Asia

  • Sir Edwin Arnold
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

The Distortions of the Mind: Aṅguttara Nikāya 4:49

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

The Wings of the Bodhisattva

  • Joanna Macy
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

Taking Responsibility for Our Thoughts: Reflections on the Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta

  • Mark Muesse
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2001

Silence and Service as a Working Guest

  • John R. DeGrace
  • Article

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