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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 1997

The Path of Concentration and Mindfulness

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1997

Sharing a Vision of Practice

  • Kamala Masters
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1997

Bowing to Life Deeply

  • Ruth Denison
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1997

Faith: Its Role and Meaning in a Buddhist Wisdom Tradition

  • Sharon Salzberg
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1997

Buddhist Psychology: Classical Texts in Contemporary Perspective

  • Andrew Olendzki, Paul Fulton, Jack Engler, Phil Aranow, Charles Styron
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1997

A Tree Called Steadfast (Anguttara Nikaya 6.5.54)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1997

Speech as Skillful Means

  • Narayan Liebenson
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1997

No Greater Contentment: The Poem of Bhuta (Theragāthā 522-526)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

Māra Meets His Match (Samyutta Nikāya 1.5.2)

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Sutta Study
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

Stepping Out of the Palace

  • Larry Rosenberg
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

Investigation: Listening as Deeply as We Possibly Can

  • Narayan Liebenson, Michael Grady
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

The Tathāgata Is “Truly Gone”

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article

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