Freedom from financial fear

摘要

IN WALKING A middle path, between self-indulgence and self-mortification, Buddhists face great temptations. This struggle for self-control animates many of their paintings, including "Star's Seed" by the Thai artist Thawan Duchanee. The painting depicts a muscular man with the mandibles of a rhinoceros beetle-beastly appendages that symbolise man's base cravings. Only by shedding these cravings, Buddhists believe, can man be free from fear.