10.
The Discourse on the Question about a Speaker of the Teaching
155.
Then a certain monk approached the Blessed One, etc.
Seated to one side, that monk said this to the Blessed One -
"'One who is speaker of the Teaching, one who is speaker of the Teaching', venerable sir, is said.
In what way, venerable sir, is one speaker of the Teaching?"
"If, monk, one expounds the Teaching for disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the eye, it is fitting to say 'a monk who is speaker of the Teaching'. If, monk, one is practising for disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the eye, it is fitting to say 'a monk practising in accordance with the Teaching'. If, monk, through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the eye, one is liberated by non-clinging, it is fitting to say 'a monk who has attained Nibbāna in this present life'. Etc. If, monk, one expounds the Teaching for disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the tongue, it is fitting to say 'a monk who is speaker of the Teaching'. Etc. If, monk, one expounds the Teaching for disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the mind, it is fitting to say 'a monk who is speaker of the Teaching'. If, monk, one is practising for disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the mind, it is fitting to say 'a monk practising in accordance with the Teaching'. If, monk, through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of the mind, one is liberated by non-clinging, it is fitting to say 'a monk who has attained Nibbāna in this present life'." The tenth.