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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 pleasing
AN 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.

AN 7.615 Develop insight into greed through the awakening factors.
AN 7.616 Develop insight into greed through seven perceptions starting with impermanence.
AN 7.617 Develop insight into greed through seven perceptions starting with ugliness.
AN 7.618 - 7.1124 Develop complete understanding, etc., of greed.

AN 7.95 Seven people worthy of offerings due to observing impermanence in the eye.
AN 7.96 - 7.614 Seven people worthy of offerings due to observing suffering, etc., in the eye, etc.

AN 7.85 A mendicant destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.86 An ascetic destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.87 A brahmin initiate destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.88 A scholar destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.89 A bathed initiate destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.90 A knowledge master destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.91 A noble-one destroys seven defilements
AN 7.92 A perfected one destroys seven defilements.
AN 7.93 Seven bad qualities starting with faithlessness.
AN 7.94 Seven good qualities starting with faith.

AN 7.75  - 7.78An expert in monastic conduct has seven qualities.
AN 7.79 - 82 An expert in monastic conduct shines with seven qualities.
AN 7.83 The Buddha teaches the Vinaya expert Upāli a short summary of the teaching.
AN 7.84 Seven principles for settling issues and disputes that have arisen in the community.

The longest of all discourses, this extended narrative tells of the events surrounding the Buddha’s death. Full of vivid and moving details, it is an ideal entry point into knowing the Buddha as a person, and understanding how the Buddhist community coped with his passing.

AN 7.69 The blossoming of the Shady Orchid Tree delights the gods of the Thirty-Three, and in the same way, the renunciation of a Buddhist ascetic is delightful.
AN 7.70 Sāriputta reflects on what a mendicant should revere in order to develop the wholesome. He reports to the Buddha that these things are indeed found in himself.
AN 7.71 Liberation doesn’t happen because you wish for it, but because you develop the path.
AN 7.72 It would be better for a monk to embrace a blazing fire than to lie with a maiden.
AN 7.73 There have been many great teachers in the past, who should not be reviled. But reviling a single noble disciple is even more serious.
AN 7.74 Araka was a famous teacher long ago, when the life span was much greater than today. Nevertheless, he still taught impermanence; how much more is it relevant today!

AN 7.65 A sense of conscience is the foundation that leads step by step to liberation.
AN 7.66 A rare discourse on cosmic evolution. The Buddha describes the successive appearance of seven suns and how even the earth will be burned up.
AN 7.67 When a king’s fortress is well supplied with seven things and has four kinds of food supplies it is impregnable. Similarly, a noble disciple with seven qualities and the four absorptions is impregnable.
AN 7.68 A mendicant who has seven qualities is worthy, with a special emphasis on listening to and learning the teaching.

AN 7.59 Venerable Kimbila asks the Buddha the reasons for the long-lasting of Buddhism after the Buddha’s demise.
AN 7.60 Qualities required for arahantship.
AN 7.61 Before his awakening, Moggallāna is struggling with sleepiness in meditation. The Buddha visits him and gives seven ways to dispel drowsiness, and other important teachings.
AN 7.62 The incalculable benefits of merit that last for many aeons.
AN 7.63 Anāthapiṇḍika’s home was in an uproar due to the badly behaved Sujātā, newly wedded to one of his sons. The Buddha speaks to her on the different kinds of wives.
AN 7.64 When someone is angry, they wish ill upon their enemy, and are disappointed if they do well. This sutta includes a powerful set of verses.

AN 7.54 The Buddha explains why a noble disciple has no doubt when it comes to the unexplained points.
AN 7.55 Seven kinds of rebirth for non-returners, as well as extinguishment by not grasping.
AN 7.56 Two gods come to the Buddha on Vulture’s Peak and declare that the nuns are liberated. Moggallāna interrogates one of the deities on what he means, and the Buddha adds further explanation.
AN 7.57 The Buddha explains the benefits of giving that are visible in the present life, and one that is only apparent in the next.
AN 7.58 Four areas where the Realized One has nothing to hide, and three ways he is irreproachable.