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Numbered Discourses · AN 3.43

  • Numbered Discourses 3.43Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.43
  • 5. The Lesser Chapter5. Cūḷavagga

Good ReasonsAtthavasasutta

“Mendicants, taking three reasons into consideration provides quite enough motivation to teach Dhamma to another.“Tayo, bhikkhave, atthavase sampassamānena alameva paresaṁ dhammaṁ desetuṁ. What three?Katame tayo? When the teacher understands the meaning and the teaching.Yo dhammaṁ deseti so atthappaṭisaṁvedī ca hoti dhammappaṭisaṁvedī ca. When the audience understands the meaning and the teaching.Yo dhammaṁ suṇāti so atthappaṭisaṁvedī ca hoti dhammappaṭisaṁvedī ca. When both the teacher and the audience understand the meaning and the teaching.Yo ceva dhammaṁ deseti yo ca dhammaṁ suṇāti ubho atthappaṭisaṁvedino ca honti dhammappaṭisaṁvedino ca.

Taking these three reasons into consideration provides quite enough motivation to teach Dhamma to another.”Ime kho, bhikkhave, tayo atthavase sampassamānena alameva paresaṁ dhammaṁ desetun”ti.

Similar passages elsewhere

Found by meaning, not by citation: the passages in other texts whose wording sits closest to a passage here.

  1. SN 16.3 Like the Moon 0.50near 0.1So they teach others because of the clear rightness of the teaching, out of compassion, kindness, and sympathy. Such a mendicant’s teaching is pure. Kassapa teaches Dhamma to others with the thought: ‘The teaching is wel…