"I have taken hold of the Tibetan tradition of the five buddha families, where each family holds together a color, an element, and above all a psychological disposition, in order to place within it the ecological concerns that run through me, and especially those that bear on biodiversity.
 
With Padma, red and of fire, it is passion turned to greed that I question, the passion that sets forests ablaze and melts the ice, when its discriminating wisdom would give us back a desire able to contemplate the living without consuming it."
 
— Rentai Caroline Maby
 

 
The five buddha families present a complete image both of the sacred world of awakened mind and of the neurotic world of ego-centered existence.
 
 "The energy of the Padma family is associated with the element of Fire. Distorted by ego, it expresses itself as passion. Passion can be transmuted into discriminating wisdom. A neurotic sense of insufficiency creates the ambition to possess particular aspects of the phenomenal world, to consume like flame their quality of otherness. Through experiencing a sense of total compassion in the Padma yidam, passion is transmuted into an energy of enlightened relationship, which sees with warmth and clarity precisely what exists to be related to.
 
Padma is connected with the West and with the brilliant display of the colorful qualities of existence expressed in the sunset. Its color red ousts the seduction and heat of passion or the all-pervading warmth of compassion. The symbol of the Padma family is the lotus of compassion, the purified form of passion."
 
[ ~ Source: "Himalayan Art quoting Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche | Visual Art, The Buddhist Art of Tibet.
 
Climate change, wildlife and biodiversity conservation are causes that are very dear to Meiun Caroline MABY. This creation, empowered by the force of the polar Bear, is also a pledge for nature protection and restoration.
 
How can "discriminating wisdom" support us to take action in the most appropriate way?