By checking it out with the original texts.-AW
We read in the Dialogues of the Buddha D, 11, 125
Again a Brother may say: "In such and such dwelling-place there is there living a brother, deeply read, holding the faith as handed down by tradition, versed in the truths, versed in the regulations of the Order, versed in the summaries of the doctrines and the law. From the mouth of that elder have I heard, from his mouth have I received it. This is the truth, this the law, this is the teaching of the master." The word spoken, brethren, by that brother should neither be received with praise nor treated with scorn. Without praise and without scorn every word and syllable should be carefully understood, and then put beside the Suttas and compared with the rules of the Order. If when so compared they do not harmonize with the Suttas, and do not fit with the rules of the Order, then you may come to the conclusion: "Verily, this is not the word of the Exalted One, and has been wrongly grasped by that brother".
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