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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MIT Meets the Monastery

Full Moon September 2013

Secular Buddhism: New vision or yet another of the myths it claims to cure?

Full Moon August 20, 2013

The Essence of Dhamma

Full Moon July 22, 2013

“Seeing” the Āsavas

Full Moon June 23, 2013

Meeting Your Thoughts At a Resting Place

Full Moon May 25, 2013

New rivers, new rafts: The Secular Buddhism Conference

Full Moon April 25, 2013

Wheels of Fire: The Buddha’s Radical Teaching on Process

Full Moon March 27, 2013

True & False: Dharma After the Western Enlightenment

Full Moon February 25, 2013

Honoring a Life & Legacy in the Dhamma: Mirka Knaster on Munindra

Full Moon January 26, 2013

A Classical Future: Interview with Insight Journal Editor

Full Moon December 28, 2012

Unburdened With Duties & Frugal In Our Ways

Full Moon November 28, 2012

The Busier You Are, The Slower You Should Go

Full Moon October 29, 2012