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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 1996

Vipassana in Snow White: A Fairy Tale Jataka Story

  • Zoe Newman
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

Renunciation: The Highest Happiness

  • Sister Siripanna
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

IMS Turns Twenty: A Guest Reflects On The Celebration

  • Abhi Hudson
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1996

Very Good Dharma Friends

  • Stephen Batchelor, Martine Batchelor
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1996

A Mother’s Blessing

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1996

Right Livelihood and Spiritual Practice

  • Larry Rosenberg
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1996

Lions in the Wilderness

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1996

Going for Refuge

  • Ajahn Thanissaro
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1996

20 Years of Tranquility and Insight

  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 1996

The Unifying Quality of Dharma

  • Corrado Pensa
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1995

Beaten Like A Thief

  • Andrew Olendzki
  • Poem
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Fall 1995

The Nature of Compassion

  • Sharon Salzberg
  • Article

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