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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 2019

Food and Insight

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

A Conversation about Cultural Spiritual Bypassing

  • Sebene Selassie, Brian Lesage
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2019

The Inherently Relational Nature of the Buddhist Path

  • Oren Jay Sofer
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

The Influxes and Mindful Eating

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

Satipatthana in Dialogue with Suffering and Oppression

  • Lila Kate Wheeler, Lama Rod Owens
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

The Many Faces of Nonduality

  • David Loy
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

Development Along the Path: Nirvana, Numinous Experience, and Emptiness

  • Stephen Mckay
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

The Underlying Tendencies

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

The Challenge of Pain

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

Māna: Conceits of the Self

  • Paul Fulton
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony

  • Winnie Nazarko
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2018

Distraction: Strategies for Overcoming Distracting Thoughts

  • Shaila Catherine
  • Interview

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