Chinese Version of Difficult Passages

[cdpatton]

Yeah, the Chinese 好 means something attractive, like an attractive woman (or man).

Okay, I’m having deja vu: I’ve already looked at these verses in another thread for someone else:

Snp 5.7: the questions of Upasīva

Bapat Taisho 198 "Neither conscious, nor with consciousness of the formless 不想想不色想、 Neither unconscious, nor with consciousness inactive; 非無想不行想， Cutting off all consciousness, detached doth one get. 一切斷不著者 ， For, in consciousness lies the root of all that is travail.” 因想本戲隨苦。 Bapat is translating P. saññā (想) as “conscious(ness)” throughout, drops some words, and the last line is just kind of butchered to me. I would translate it as something like this: Not perceiving perce…