The Buddha's instructions on debating

[Gabriel_L]

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EBTs' take on debates

I randomly came across the SN22.3 earlier today while looking for something totally unrelated. Interestingly we see here the Buddha giving some advice on the avoidance of disputing things in a way that pretty much resembles the concept of what some call a “Buddhist debate”: ‘You don’t understand this Dhamma and Discipline. I understand this Dhamma and Discipline. What, you understand this Dhamma and Discipline! You’re practising wrongly, I’m practising rightly. What should have been said bef…