← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN22.115Connected Discourses 22.115SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 22.11512. A Dhamma speakerA Dhamma speakerAt Sāvatthī.Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:“Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.How is a Dhamma speaker defined?”“Mendicant, if a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding form, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding form, 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 form, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment with feeling …perception …choices …consciousness, for its fading away and cessation, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding consciousness, 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 consciousness, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.”