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  • Linked Discourses 12.16Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.16
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A Dhamma SpeakerDhammakathikasutta

At Sāvatthī.Sāvatthiyaṁ …

Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:

“Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.“‘dhammakathiko dhammakathiko’ti, bhante, vuccati. How is a Dhamma speaker defined?”Kittāvatā nu kho, bhante, dhammakathiko hotī”ti?

“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’.“Jarāmaraṇassa ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya dhammaṁ deseti, ‘dhammakathiko bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya. 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’.Jarāmaraṇassa ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hoti, ‘dhammānudhammappaṭipanno bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya. 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’.Jarāmaraṇassa ce bhikkhu nibbidā virāgā nirodhā anupādāvimutto hoti, ‘diṭṭhadhammanibbānappatto bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya.

If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment regarding rebirth …Jātiyā ce bhikkhu …pe… continued existence …bhavassa ce bhikkhu … grasping …upādānassa ce bhikkhu … craving …taṇhāya ce bhikkhu … feeling …vedanāya ce bhikkhu … contact …phassassa ce bhikkhu … the six sense fields …saḷāyatanassa ce bhikkhu … name and form …nāmarūpassa ce bhikkhu … consciousness …viññāṇassa ce bhikkhu … choices …saṅkhārānañce bhikkhu … If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they’re qualified to be called ‘a mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.avijjāya ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya dhammaṁ deseti, ‘dhammakathiko bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya. 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’.Avijjāya ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hoti, ‘dhammānudhammappaṭipanno bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya. 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’.”Avijjāya ce bhikkhu nibbidā virāgā nirodhā anupādāvimutto hoti, ‘diṭṭhadhammanibbānappatto bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāyā”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 12.67 Sheaves of Reeds 0.98near 3.13If 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’.”…
  2. SN 22.116 A Dhamma speaker (2nd) 0.95near 3.13If 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’.”…
  3. SN 22.115 A Dhamma speaker 0.94near 0.1Linked Discourses 22.115 12. A Dhamma speaker A Dhamma speaker At 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…
  4. SN 35.155 A Dhamma Speaker 0.89near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.155 15. The Old and the New A Dhamma Speaker Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and asked him, “Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’. How is a Dhamma speaker defined?” “If a mendicant teaches…
  5. SN 22.114 Knowledge 0.56near 0.1Linked Discourses 22.114 12. A Dhamma speaker Knowledge At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘knowledge’. What is knowledge? And how is a knowing one d…
  6. SN 48.40 Irregular Order 0.53near 3.13They’re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of equanimity, and who applies their mind to that end.”…
  7. AN 4.69 Effort 0.52near 3.13Any mendicant who keenly applies these may attain the ending of suffering.”…
  8. Thag 10.6 Upasena son of Vaṅgantā 0.52near 3.13until they have attained the end of suffering. For a mendicant who meditates in this way, longing for purification, all their defilements wither away, and they realize quenching.…