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.

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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

The Blooming Lotus (Theragāthā 700 & 701)

Waking Up In Relationships

Cutting the Stream: The Shorter Discourse on the Cowherd (Majjhima 34)

Teaching and Confusing the Dharma

The Aṭṭhaka-vagga of the Sutta Nipata