Upadana? Let go of clinging

[Erika_ODonnell]

@anon87721581

@Sunyo bhante, doesn’t ‘upādāya’ in the above simile refer to the concept of ‘dependance’?
Some thing like; it’s only depending on a mirror that the youth is able to see his face not without depending on anything.

The mirror similie is also found in SA 261, as was explored here Translation of a mirror analogy for clinging/grasping (upādāna) in SN 22.83 and SA 261.

According to Ven. Sujato in this post, the commentary says the following:

Upādāyāti āgamma ārabbha sandhāya paṭicca
Upādāya means relying on, resting on, supported by, depending on

My own opinion is that the mirror simile itself work bests with ‘dependence’ rather than grasping or clinging.

@cdpatton

It also agrees completely with the most common Chinese translation (受), which means “to accept, acquire, experience” in most usages. I’ve always been a bit stumped by this because the Pali is usually translated to mean “clinging.” Another term (取) preferred by later translations does mean something closer to “grasp,” but it can mean “obtain, appropriate.”

Would you mind posting an example of how a Chinese passage would look with acquisition instead of clinging? (For example SA 261, which has the mirror analogy and lots of 受s).