← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN12.16Connected Discourses 12.16SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 12.162. FuelA Dhamma SpeakerAt Sāvatthī.Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:“Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.How is a Dhamma speaker defined?”“If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding old age and death, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding old age and death, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.If they’re freed by not grasping, by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding old age and death, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment regarding rebirth …continued existence …grasping …craving …feeling …contact …the six sense fields …name and form …consciousness …choices …If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.If they’re freed by not grasping, by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.”