Connected Discourses 35.155

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1. Linked Discourses 35.155
2. 15. The Old and the New
3. A Dhamma Speaker
4. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and asked him,
5. “Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.
6. How is a Dhamma speaker defined?”
7. “If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.
8. If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.
9. If they’re freed by not grasping by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.
10. If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment with the ear … nose … tongue … body …
11. mind, for its fading away and cessation, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.
12. If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the mind, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.
13. If they’re freed by not grasping by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the mind, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.”