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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 Ibex Sutra

  • Mu Soeng
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Technologies of Transformation: The Power of Spiritual Autobiography

  • Lama Liz Monson, Sarah Fleming
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Bhikkhu Anālayo and Mu Soeng: A Conversation on Study, Practice, and Monastic Life

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo, Mu Soeng
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Practice for Self, Practice for Others: A Prison Minister’s Reflections on Faith and Freedom

  • Myokei Caine-Barrett
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Into the Heart of Suffering: Lessons From the Story of the Tigress

  • Bill Crane
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

An Excerpt from Storied Companions

  • Dr. Karen Derris
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

A Country Called Witness

  • Georgia Kashnig
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Honoring Our Ancestors: A Buddhist Response to Anti-Asian Violence

  • Chenxing Han
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Narratives of Grief, Narratives of Care

  • Sarah Fleming
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Sense Restraint in Daily Life: Recommendations from a Health Behavior Change Perspective

  • Curtis Breslin
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

Wings of Wisdom and Compassion: Lessons of Freedom from Japanese American Internment in WWII

  • Duncan Ryuken Williams
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2021

The Best Buddhist Story: Yasodhara’s Love and Loss

  • Vanessa Sasson
  • Article

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