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his neither listen to him, nor give ear to his words, nor become steadfast in heart through understanding thereof; they go their own way, apart from the teaching of the master. Such a teacher may be rebuked, setting out these facts, and adding; “You are like a man who, having broken through an old bond, should entangle himself in a new one.” Like that, do I say, is this lust of yours (to go on teaching when you have not trained yourself to teach). For what, then, can one man do for another?”
‘This, Lohikka, is the third sort of teacher in the world worthy of blame. And whosoever should blame such a one, his rebuke would be justified, in accord with the facts and the truth, not improper. And these, Lohikka, are the three sorts of teachers of which I spoke.’
- ‘And when he had thus spoken, Lohikka, the Brahman spake thus to the Exalted One:
‘But is there, Gotama, any sort of teacher not worthy of blame in the world?’
‘Yes, Lohikka, there is a teacher not worthy, in the world of blame.’
‘And What sort of a teacher, Gotama, is so?’
(The answer is in the words of the exposition set out above in the Samannaphala, as follows:
The appearance of a Tathagata (one who won the truth), his preaching, the conversion of a hearer, his adoption of the homeless state.
The minor details of mere morality that he practises.
The Confidence of heart he gains from this practice.
The paragraph on ‘Guarded is the door of his Senses.’
The paragraph on ‘Mindful and Self-possessed.’
The paragraph on Simplicity of Life, being content with little.
The paragraphs on Emancipation, ill-temper, laziness, worry and perplexity.
The paragraph on the Joy and Peace that, as a result of this emancipation, fills his whole being.
The paragraphs on the Four Raptures (Ghanas).
The paragraphs on the Insight arising from Knowledge (the knowledge of the First Path).
The paragraphs on the Realisation of the Four Noble Truths the destruction of the Intoxications—lust, delusions, be comings, and ignorance—and the attainment of Arhatship.)
The refrain through and the closing paragraph is:
‘And whosoever the teacher be, Lohikka, under whom the disciple attains to distinction so excellent as that, that, Lohikka is a teacher