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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 1998

Practicing for Awakening

  • Jack Engler
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1998

To the Forest for Refuge

  • Joseph Goldstein
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

May All Beings Practice Dying

  • Rodney Smith
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

Flying in the Face of Death

  • Gavin Harrison
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

Dharma on the Front Lines: Finding a Path

  • Paula Green
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

A Fourth Turning of the Wheel? Ambedkar Buddhism

  • Christopher Queen
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

Practicing the Middle Way: Devadaha Sutta

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

Working With Fear

  • Michael Grady
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1998

Irresistible Force (Saṃyutta Nikāya 3.3.5)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1997

Breaking the Cycle (Brāhmaṇa Saṃyutta [SN 7.2.2])

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1997

Directed and Undirected Meditation (Satipatthana Samyutta 47.1.10)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1997

The Pāramis: Heart of Buddha’s Teachings and Our Own Practice

  • Sylvia Boorstein
  • Article

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