{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn21.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn21.7","id":"suttacentral_sn21.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.7/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Ves\u0101l\u012b, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof. Now at that time Venerable Vis\u0101kha, Pa\u00f1c\u0101li\u2019s son, was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk. His words were polished, clear, articulate, expressing the meaning, comprehensive, and independent. Then in the late afternoon, the Buddha came out of retreat and went to the assembly hall. He sat down on the seat spread out, and addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, who was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk?\u201d \u201cSir, it was Venerable Vis\u0101kha, Pa\u00f1c\u0101li\u2019s son.\u201d Then the Buddha said to Vis\u0101kha: \u201cGood, good, Vis\u0101kha! It\u2019s good that you educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk, with words that are polished, clear, articulate, expressing the meaning, comprehensive, and independent.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cThough an astute person is mixed up with fools, they don\u2019t know unless he speaks. But when he speaks they know, he\u2019s teaching the state free of death. He should speak and illustrate the teaching, holding up the banner of the seers. Words well spoken are the seers\u2019 banner, for the teaching is the banner of the seers.\u201d","title":"With Vis\u0101kha, Pa\u00f1c\u0101li\u2019s Son","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":232}