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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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

Mindfulness

The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening

Dharma as Dāna

Looking in the Mirror

Finding Our Place

The Healing Medicine of Dhamma (Milinda-pañho 335)

Living in the Light of Death (excerpt)