Kintisutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 14 · Section 45

[45] If it should occur to you thus: "These venerable ones differ both as to meaning and as to phrasing," then you should approach whichever bhikkhu among them you consider the more amenable to speech and say to him: "The venerable ones differ both as to meaning and as to phrasing. Let the venerable ones know that it is in just this way that there is difference as to meaning and difference as to phrasing. Let the venerable ones not fall into dispute." Then, among the other bhikkhus, those siding with the one (opposing) party, you should approach whichever bhikkhu you consider the more amenable to speech and say to him: "The venerable ones differ both as to meaning and as to phrasing. Let the venerable ones know that it is in just this way that there is difference as to meaning and difference as to phrasing. Let the venerable ones not fall into dispute." Thus what has been wrongly grasped should be borne in mind as wrongly grasped; and having borne in mind what has been wrongly grasped as wrongly grasped, what is Dhamma and what is Vinaya — that should be spoken.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.