3.4.14 Which Speech Does a Buddha Utter?*

It is correctly enunciated: “He speaks right speech spoken at the right place”.

That is why in enunciating this rightly he is Sugato. This is the sutta to confirm this:

Words that the Tathāgato knows to be not according to fact, untrue, not connected with benefit, unpleasant and disagreeable to others, he does not say.

In the case of words that the Tathāgato knows to be to fact, true, not connected with benefit, unpleasant and disagreeable to others, he does not say.

In the case of words that the Tathāgato knows to be according to fact, true, connected with benefit, but unpleasant and disagreeable to others, he knows the proper time for saying.

In the case of words that the Tathāgato knows to be not according to fact, untrue, not connected with the goal, but pleasant and agreeable to others, he does not say.

In the case of words that the Tathāgato knows to be to fact, true, not connected with the goal, but pleasant and agreeable to others, he does not say.

In the case of words that the Tathāgato knows to be to fact, true, connected with the goal, but pleasant and agreeable to others, he has a sense of the proper time for saying.

That is why in enunciating rightly he should be understood as Sugato.”
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* Buddhānussatikathā—sugato: Buddha + anussati + kathā—sugato: Buddha + recollection + talk: well gone
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