sn.35.155 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

A Dhamma Speaker

Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and asked him,
“Sir, they speak of a ‘Dhamma speaker’.
How is a Dhamma speaker defined?”
“If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.
If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.
If they’re freed by not grasping by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the eye, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.
If a mendicant teaches Dhamma for disillusionment with the ear … nose … tongue … body …
mind, for its fading away and cessation, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who speaks on Dhamma’.
If they practice for disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the mind, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who practices in line with the teaching’.
If they’re freed by not grasping by disillusionment, dispassion, and cessation regarding the mind, they’re qualified to be called a ‘mendicant who has attained extinguishment in this very life’.”