{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn12.16/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn12.16","id":"suttacentral_sn12.16","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.16/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, they speak of a \u2018Dhamma speaker\u2019. How is a Dhamma speaker defined?\u201d \u201cIf a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding old age and death, they\u2019re qualified to be called \u2018a mendicant who speaks on Dhamma\u2019. If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding old age and death, they\u2019re qualified to be called \u2018a mendicant who practices in line with the teaching\u2019. If they\u2019re freed by not grasping, by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding old age and death, they\u2019re qualified to be called \u2018a mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life\u2019. If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment regarding rebirth \u2026 continued existence \u2026 grasping \u2026 craving \u2026 feeling \u2026 contact \u2026 the six sense fields \u2026 name and form \u2026 consciousness \u2026 choices \u2026 If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they\u2019re qualified to be called \u2018a mendicant who speaks on Dhamma\u2019. If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they\u2019re qualified to be called \u2018a mendicant who practices in line with the teaching\u2019. If they\u2019re freed by not grasping, by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they\u2019re qualified to be called \u2018a mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life\u2019.\u201d","title":"A Dhamma Speaker","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":226}