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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 2020

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 3: Liberation of the Mind

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 2: An Ethics of the Mind

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2020

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 1: Relating to the Earth

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Rebirth and the West

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and the EcoSangha: The Practice of the Wild in the Anthropocene

  • Jason Wirth
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Taking Freedom to Extremes: Teachings for Responsible Social Action

  • Lila Kate Wheeler, Katy Wiss, JD Doyle
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

A Whole-Life Path: A Layperson’s Immersive Approach to the Noble Eightfold Path

  • Gregory Kramer
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Craving and dukkha

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Mu Soeng and the Evolution of the BCBS Library

  • Mu Soeng
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Five Spiritual Faculties

  • Willa Thaniya Reid, Elizabeth Day
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

Being Time

  • Shinshu Roberts
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

On Time

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article

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