{"id":"sn12.16","title":"A Dhamma Speaker","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.16","title":"A Dhamma Speaker","units":[{"id":"sn12.16:0","sourceIds":["sn12.16:0.1","sn12.16:0.2","sn12.16:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.16\n2. Āhāravagga\nDhammakathikasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.16\n2. Fuel\nA Dhamma Speaker"}},{"id":"sn12.16:1","sourceIds":["sn12.16:1.1","sn12.16:1.2","sn12.16:1.3","sn12.16:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ …\nAtha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘dhammakathiko dhammakathiko’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, bhante, dhammakathiko hotī”ti?","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:\n“Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.\nHow is a Dhamma speaker defined?”"}},{"id":"sn12.16:2","sourceIds":["sn12.16:2.1","sn12.16:2.2","sn12.16:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Jarāmaraṇassa ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya dhammaṁ deseti, ‘dhammakathiko bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya.\nJarāmaraṇassa ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hoti, ‘dhammānudhammappaṭipanno bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya.\nJarāmaraṇassa ce bhikkhu nibbidā virāgā nirodhā anupādāvimutto hoti, ‘diṭṭhadhammanibbānappatto bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya.","en":"“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’.\nIf 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’.\nIf 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’."}},{"id":"sn12.16:3","sourceIds":["sn12.16:3.1","sn12.16:3.2","sn12.16:3.3","sn12.16:3.4","sn12.16:3.5","sn12.16:3.6","sn12.16:3.7","sn12.16:3.8","sn12.16:3.9","sn12.16:3.10","sn12.16:3.11","sn12.16:3.12","sn12.16:3.13","sn12.16:3.14"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Jātiyā ce bhikkhu …pe…\nbhavassa ce bhikkhu …\nupādānassa ce bhikkhu …\ntaṇhāya ce bhikkhu …\nvedanāya ce bhikkhu …\nphassassa ce bhikkhu …\nsaḷāyatanassa ce bhikkhu …\nnāmarūpassa ce bhikkhu …\nviññāṇassa ce bhikkhu …\nsaṅkhārānañce bhikkhu …\navijjāya ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya dhammaṁ deseti, ‘dhammakathiko bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya.\nAvijjāya ce bhikkhu nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya paṭipanno hoti, ‘dhammānudhammappaṭipanno bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāya.\nAvijjāya ce bhikkhu nibbidā virāgā nirodhā anupādāvimutto hoti, ‘diṭṭhadhammanibbānappatto bhikkhū’ti alaṁvacanāyā”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment regarding rebirth …\ncontinued existence …\ngrasping …\ncraving …\nfeeling …\ncontact …\nthe six sense fields …\nname and form …\nconsciousness …\nchoices …\nIf a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they’re qualified to be called ‘a mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.\nIf they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding ignorance, they’re qualified to be called ‘a mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.\nIf 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’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.16/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}