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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Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 2: An Ethics of the Mind

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 1: Relating to the Earth

Rebirth and the West

Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and the EcoSangha: The Practice of the Wild in the Anthropocene

Taking Freedom to Extremes: Teachings for Responsible Social Action

A Whole-Life Path: A Layperson’s Immersive Approach to the Noble Eightfold Path

Craving and dukkha

Mu Soeng and the Evolution of the BCBS Library

Five Spiritual Faculties

Being Time

On Time

Food and Insight