Numbered Discourses 3.43

5. The Lesser Chapter

Good Reasons

“Bhikkhus, taking three reasons into consideration provides quite enough motivation to teach Dhamma to another. What three? When the teacher feels deeply the meaning and the fundamental truth of the teaching. When the audience feels deeply the meaning and the fundamental truth of the teaching. When both the teacher and the audience feel deeply the meaning and the fundamental truth of the teaching.

Taking these three reasons into consideration provides quite enough motivation to teach Dhamma to another.”