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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Vedanā Part 2: Addressing Views and Clinging at the Source

Vedanā Part 1: Addressing Views and Clinging at the Source

Practicing Your Way Out of Doubt, Synthesizing Styles, and the Underground Abhidhamma

Coming Clean on Diversity and Staying in Love with Practice

Mindfulness in Different Buddhist Traditions

The Convergence of Vedanā, Our Mammalian Physiology, and Awakening

Vipassanā, the Three Characteristics, and the First Satipatthāna

Truths with Consequences

Urban Hermit: A Different Way of Being in the World

Jhānas, Lucid Dreaming, and Letting There Be Just Seeing in the Seeing

Long Retreats, Selfie Sticks, and the Five Faculties

Mettā: What It Is, What It Isn’t