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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To the Forest for Refuge

May All Beings Practice Dying

Flying in the Face of Death

Dharma on the Front Lines: Finding a Path

A Fourth Turning of the Wheel? Ambedkar Buddhism

Practicing the Middle Way: Devadaha Sutta

Working With Fear

Irresistible Force (Saṃyutta Nikāya 3.3.5)

Breaking the Cycle (Brāhmaṇa Saṃyutta [SN 7.2.2])

Directed and Undirected Meditation (Satipatthana Samyutta 47.1.10)

The Pāramis: Heart of Buddha’s Teachings and Our Own Practice

The Path of Concentration and Mindfulness