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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 Spring 2000

Living in the Light of Death (excerpt)

  • Larry Rosenberg
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2000

Three Views of Transience

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2000

The Experience of Feeling (Insight into the Aggregates)

  • Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2000

The Interdependent Arising of Feeling (Insight into the Aggregates)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2000

A Day of Practice and Discussion, Inspired by the Maṇgala Sutta

  • Sharon Salzberg
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2000

A Question of Skill

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1999

Like Moths to the Flame (Udāna 6.9)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1999

Anatta: A Practical Approach

  • Tom Pedulla
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1999

The Thorn in Your Heart (Selections from the Attadaṇḍa Sutta)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1999

The Context of Impermanence

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1999

Do We Really Believe in Impermanence?

  • Carol Wilson
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1999

Seeing the Truth of Freedom

  • Sharda Rogell
  • Interview

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