AN 8.01 - 8.10 Love

AN 8.01 The eight benefits of practicing the meditation on love.AN 8.02 Eight conditions that lead to the arising of wisdom, its growth and perfection.AN 8.03 - 04 Due to eight qualities, a mendicant is displeasing to their fellow monastics, but with the opposite qualities is pleasingAN 8.05 The eight worldly conditions in brief: gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, pleasure and pain.AN 8.06 The eight worldly conditions in detail: gain and loss, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, pleasure and pain.AN 8.07 Devadatta’s downfall was the eight worldly conditions.AN 8.08 In a discourse evidently set some time after the Buddha’s passing, Venerable Uttara, staying in a distant land, teaches that a mendicant should review their own failings and those of others. Questioned by Sakka, the Lord of Gods, Uttara affirms that he learned this from the Buddha.AN 8.09 The Buddha praises the grace and restraint of Venerable Nanda.AN 8.10 When a certain monk was admonished, he responded by attacking his reprovers. The Buddha tells the other monks to expel him, explaining that when such a monk lives hidden in the Saṅgha, his corruption can spread to the other monks.