Connected Discourses 22.116

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1. Linked Discourses 22.116
2. 12. A Dhamma speaker
3. A Dhamma speaker (2nd)
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:
6. “Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.
7. How is a Dhamma speaker defined?
8. How is a mendicant who practices in line with the teaching defined? And how is a mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life defined?”
9. “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’.
10. 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’.
11. 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’.
12. If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment with feeling …
13. perception …
14. choices …
15. consciousness, for its fading away and cessation, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.
16. 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’.
17. 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’.”