Pāsādikasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Dīghanikāya · Pāthikavagga · Vol. 11 · Section 111

[111] Again, Cunda, if yet another fellow practitioner of the spiritual life—the Saṅgha (saṅgho)—should speak the Dhamma, and if in that regard it should occur to you: 'This venerable one indeed grasps the meaning (attha) correctly, but frames the phrasing (byañjana) wrongly,' you should neither approve nor reject him. Without approving and without rejecting, he should be addressed thus: 'Friend, for this meaning, are these phrasings or those phrasings—which are the more fitting?' If he should say thus: 'Friend, for this meaning these very phrasings are the more fitting, rather than those,' he should be neither extolled nor disparaged. Without extolling and without disparaging, that very person should be carefully made to understand, for the purpose of examining those very phrasings.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.