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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 2021

The Idea of Dhammadāna

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns

  • Matt Weingast
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

What Does No-Self Really Mean?

  • Jay Garfield
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Consciousness and Dependent Arising

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Contemplative Practice in Dharma and Art: Attention, Sensation, and Transformation

  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

The Five ‘Fingers’ of Name

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Encountering and Practicing Buddhism in Integrated Sanghas

  • Pamela Ayo Yetunde
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Living Our Histories, Shaping Our Futures: Buddhist Practice and Anti-Racist Education for White People

  • Jessica Locke
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

“When I Could Do Nothing”: Buddhism and the Practice of Poetry in a Time of Pandemic

  • William Edelglass
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Climate, Corona, and Collapse: The Dharma was Made for these Times

  • Karin Meyers
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Dependent Arising

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 4: Walking the Path

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article

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