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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 Spring 2024

From the Archives – Bowing to Life Deeply: An Interview with Ruth Denison (Spring 1997)

  • Ruth Denison
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2024

Buddhist Ethics for a World in Crisis

  • Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2024

Christian Insight Meditation

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL Spring 2024

Editor’s Introduction (June 2024)

  • William Edelglass
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2023

Early Buddhism: An Article by Bhikkhu Anālayo (November 2023)

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2023

Finding the Words: An Interview on Poetry and Practice with Joseph Goldstein (November 2023)

  • Joseph Goldstein
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2023

Speculative Views Sutra (February 2023)

  • Mu Soeng
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2023

Life of a Meditator (Part 2) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo (February 2023)

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2023

Life of a Meditator (Part 1) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo (February 2023)

  • Bhikkhu Anālayo
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

Dukkha without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology

  • Rick Hanson
  • Article
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

Buddhist Practice, Plant Medicine, and Healing: An Interview with Spring Washam

  • Spring Washam
  • Interview
  • INSIGHT JOURNAL 2022

The Value of Seclusion

  • Walt Opie
  • Article

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