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

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The Dharma of Plants: Editor’s Introduction

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The Pine Tree Koan

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Reflections on Insight Dialogue with an Amaryllis Plant in the Depth of Winter

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Zen Reflections on the Dharma of Plants

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On the (In)sentience and Buddha-nature of Plants

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Practicing with a Plant Ally: A Guided Meditation: Exploring a Question from within the Web of Life

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Theravada in the West

The Parable of the Six Creatures

What Can I Learn From This?

The Soothing of Grief

Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

Freeing the Mind

Dedicated to Dhamma

Life is a Retreat

The Call of the Peacocks

Shining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part II)

The Not-Self Strategy

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies