![[info icon]](./../../../img/question_16.gif "Summary: Two short reminders not to misquote or misrepresent the Buddha's teachings.")
"Monks, these two slander the Tathagata. Which two? He who explains a discourse whose meaning needs to be inferred as one whose meaning has already been fully drawn out. And he who explains a discourse whose meaning has already been fully drawn out as one whose meaning needs to be inferred. These are two who slander the Tathagata."
©1997 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 4 August 2010.
How to cite this document (a suggested style): "Neyyatha Sutta: A Meaning to be Inferred" (AN 2.25), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 4 August 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an02/an02.025.than.html .