Trigger Warning: This story mentions illness, grief, and the loss of loved ones. Please read with care. Bronwyn Rutherfoord's purpose is to aspire and inspire brilliance in healing and care. At 69 years old, she lives this daily, believing her passion for healing has...

‘A monk once asked Zen master Egen “l've come to solve the question of life and death”. Egen drove him away saying, “at Egens place there is no such thing as life and death!”’ Zen Comments on the Mumonkan.

‘Buddha as an experience transcends mere personality; it invites us to embody his enlightened awareness, manifesting wisdom and compassion in our own lives.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘I hear it spoken, my mind does not arise — This is gossip. It stops at me.’ Chan Master Fenyang

‘The Buddha taught that looking after the precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.’ Ajahn Chah

“A codependent person is one who has let another person’s behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.” ~Melody Beattie From a young age, I felt insecure in my own skin. I was a highly sensitive child and, subsequently,...

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” ~François de La Rochefoucauld “So, in your relationship, do your partner’s needs always dictate how things go?” My therapist looked at me quizzically after I’d...

‘The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself.’ The...