Bombast Ukkṅcita Sutta (AN 2:46)

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('â', How is this? What is the meaning of this?â They donât make open what isnât open, donât make plain what isnât plain, donât dispel doubt on its various doubtful points. This is called an assembly trained in bombast, not in cross-questioning. "And which is the assembly trained in cross-questioning and not in bombast? "There is the case where in any assembly when discourses that are literary works—the works of poets, artful in sound, artful in rhetoric, the work of outsiders, words of disciples—are recited, the monks donât listen, donât lend ear, donât set their hearts on knowing them; donât regard them as worth grasping or mastering. But when the discourses of the Tathṅgata—deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness—are recited, they listen, they lend ear, they set their hearts on knowing them, they regard them as worth grasping & mastering. And when they have mastered that Dhamma, they cross-question one another about it and dissect it: ),

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('â', How is this? What is the meaning of this?â They make open what isnât open, make plain what isnât plain, dispel doubt on its various doubtful points. This is called an assembly trained in cross-questioning and not in bombast." See also: MN 146; AN 5:79; AN 6:51 - --> - - - -