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.

Spring 2025

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Vipassanā, the Three Characteristics, and the First Satipatthāna

Truths with Consequences

Urban Hermit: A Different Way of Being in the World

Jhānas, Lucid Dreaming, and Letting There Be Just Seeing in the Seeing

Long Retreats, Selfie Sticks, and the Five Faculties

Mettā: What It Is, What It Isn’t

Cultivating the Brahmavihāras

The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation

The Four Assemblies and Theravāda Buddhism

After Buddhism

Insecurity, Self-Criticism, and Impermanence

Love and Compassion in the Visuddhimagga