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.

Fall 2025

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Editor’s Introduction

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Emptiness Requires Contextualization: On Rob Burbea’s ‘Seeing That Frees’

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‘Seeing That Frees’ in Context: A Response to Bhikkhu Anālayo

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Emptiness Requires Contextualization (2): Clinging and Liberation

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Not-Self Sutra

Obsessions Sutra

Monkey Fist Sutra

Revoicing the Buddha

Editor’s Introduction

Practicing with a Plant Ally: A Guided Meditation: Exploring a Question from within the Web of Life

On the (In)sentience and Buddha-nature of Plants

Zen Reflections on the Dharma of Plants

Reflections on Insight Dialogue with an Amaryllis Plant in the Depth of Winter

The Pine Tree Koan

The Dharma of Plants: Editor’s Introduction

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