The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fourth Chapter for Recitation
well, they should be laid alongside the Discourses, they should be
compared with the Discipline. 124
If, when these are laid alongside the Discourses, compared with the
Discipline, they do not fit in with the Discourses, they do not
compare (well) with the Discipline, you may here come to this
conclusion: ‘Certainly this is not the Gracious One's word, it is not
well learned by that monk,’ and, monks, you should abandon it. If
when these are laid alongside the Discourses, compared with the
Discipline, they do fit in with the Discourses, they do compare
(well) with the Discipline, you may come to this conclusion:
‘Certainly this is the Gracious One's word, it is well-learned by that
monk.’ This, monks, is the first Great Referral you should bear in
mind.
2) Here, monks, a monk might speak like this: ‘In a certain dwelling
place lives a Community with elders and leaders, I have heard this
directly from that Community, directly I learned it: “This is the
Teaching, this is the Discipline, this is the Teacher's Dispensation.”’
Those monks' speech, monks, is not to be rejoiced over, not to be
124 The Commentary has a hard time here explaining what is comprehended
by Sutta and Vinaya, because the Abhidhamma is not mentioned explicitly.
Eventually it settles on the following definition: Sutte ti Tepiṭake
Buddhavacane otāretabbāni. Vinaye ti etasmiṁ rāgādivinayakāraṇe
saṁsandetabbānī ti; alongside the Discourses, they should be laid alongside
the Buddha's word in the Three Baskets. With the Discipline, they should be
compared with the means of disciplining passion.
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