8.
The Discourse on Being Very Helpful
107.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"Monks, brahmins and householders are of great service to you, those who attend upon you with requisites of robes, almsfood, lodging and medicine for the sick. You too, monks, are of great service to brahmins and householders, in that you expound to them the Teaching, good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end, with meaning and with phrasing; you reveal the holy life that is complete in its entirety and pure. Thus, monks, in dependence on each other, the holy life is lived for the purpose of crossing over the flood, for the rightly making an end of suffering." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
They attain the Good Teaching, the unsurpassed freedom from bondage.
The homeless receive, for the removal of dangers.
Having faith in the Worthy Ones, meditators with noble wisdom.
Delighting in the world of gods, they rejoice, those who desire sensual pleasures."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The eighth.