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AN 8.31 Eight ways of giving a gift.
AN 8.32 This verse on qualities of a good person appears to be a fragment of text, perhaps originally part of the previous sutta.
AN 8.33 Eight grounds for giving.
AN 8.34 The rewards of giving are compared to fields of different qualities.
AN 8.35 When giving, if you expect a certain result in the next life, you can get it, if the conditions are right.
AN 8.36 The good deeds of giving, ethics, and meditation lead to good rebirths, depending on the level to which they are developed.
AN 8.37 A good person gives gifts in eight ways.
AN 8.38 When a good person is born, it benefits eight kinds of people, like a rain-cloud showering all over the land.
AN 8.39 Eight streams of merit, consisting in going for refuge and five kinds of gifts.
AN 8.40 Eight kinds of misdeed are conducive to bad outcomes.

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 7.44 Seven planes of consciousness in which beings may be reborn.
AN 7.45 The path factors are the prerequisite for right immersion.
AN 7.46 Seven fires, some physical, some psychological.
AN 7.47 The brahmin Uggatasarīra has arranged a great sacrifice. On Ānanda’s advice, he asks the Buddha how to make a sacrifice beneficial.
AN 7.48 Meditating on seven perceptions leads to the deathless, in brief.
AN 7.49 Meditating on seven perceptions leads to the deathless, in detail.
AN 7.50 The brahmin Jāṇussoṇī asks the Buddha about behaviors that are a blemish to the celibate life.
AN 7.51 By focusing on their own gendered attributes, a man or woman becomes attached to them and develops lust for the opposite sex.
AN 7.52 The lay followers of Campā seek a teaching from the Buddha. Together with Sāriputta, they ask the Buddha about what makes a gift fruitful.
AN 7.53 Sāriputta and Moggallāna are on tour in the southern hills. A deity informs the laywoman Veḷukaṇṭakī that they are approaching. When Sāriputta expresses his amazement that she speaks with the gods, she goes on to list many other of her own amazing qualities.

AN 6.43 When going for a bath, the Buddha encounters a giant royal elephant. But a spiritual giant is even more impressive.
AN 6.44 In response to criticism, the Buddha explains that it is difficult to compare the spiritual development of different individuals, so we should not be judgmental.
AN 6.45 Poor people suffer when they get in debt. Spiritual practitioners who are devoid of good qualities suffer in a similar way.
AN 6.46 In a discourse evidently set some time after the Buddha’s passing, Venerable Mahācunda urges different groups of meditators, whether they emphasize serenity or insight, to respect and support each other.
AN 6.47 The Buddha explains to the wanderer Moliyasīvaka how the teaching may be realized in the present life.
AN 6.48 The Buddha explains a brahmin how the teaching may be realized in the present life.

The factors that are needed for insight, the complete understanding ... finishing ... giving up ... ending ... vanishing ... fading away ... cessation ... giving away ... letting go of stinginess, deceit, deviousness, obstinacy, aggression, conceit, arrogance, vanity, negligence.