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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How to Understand

Tapas

It Can Be Very Simple

Stealing the Scent (Saṃyutta Nikāya 9:14)

Body People, Mind People

Snowstorm in a Cabin in the Woods

The Light of Asia

The Distortions of the Mind: Aṅguttara Nikāya 4:49

The Wings of the Bodhisattva

Taking Responsibility for Our Thoughts: Reflections on the Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta

Silence and Service as a Working Guest

A Ripple in a Pond