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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Buddhist Ethics for a World in Crisis

Christian Insight Meditation

Editor’s Introduction (June 2024)

Early Buddhism: An Article by Bhikkhu Anālayo (November 2023)

Finding the Words: An Interview on Poetry and Practice with Joseph Goldstein (November 2023)

Speculative Views Sutra (February 2023)

Life of a Meditator (Part 2) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo (February 2023)

Life of a Meditator (Part 1) An Interview with Bhikkhu Anālayo (February 2023)

Dukkha without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology

Buddhist Practice, Plant Medicine, and Healing: An Interview with Spring Washam

The Value of Seclusion

All Cops Are Buddhas (ACAB): Stretching our Empathy and Defunding the Police