sn22.116:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
sn22.116:1.2 Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:
sn22.116:1.3 “Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.
sn22.116:1.4 How is a Dhamma speaker defined?
sn22.116:1.5 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?”
sn22.116:1.6 “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’.
sn22.116:1.7 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’.
sn22.116:1.8 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’.
sn22.116:1.9 If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment with feeling …
sn22.116:1.10 perception …
sn22.116:1.11 choices …
sn22.116:1.12 consciousness, for its fading away and cessation, they’re qualified to be called ‘a mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.
sn22.116:1.13 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’.
sn22.116:1.14 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’.”