AN 1.321

English translation by Bhikkhu Candana.

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321. “Bhikkhus, the one promoting a well-taught and expounded discipline or teaching while encouraging others in it, assures two things for both himself, the instigator of such good guidance, and the one being instigated and encouraged, who lives and behaves according to that well-taught discipline and teaching: to be generating much good, bringing to themselves all kinds of wholesome merit-making results.

“And what is the reason for this?

“Bhikkhus, it is because the teaching being taught and followed is itself correct and thus well-proclaimed.”