8.
The Discourse on the Rains Retreat
1034.
"Just as, monks, when the sky rains with large drops on the upper mountain, that water flowing according to the slope fills the mountain grottoes, clefts, and channels; the mountain grottoes, clefts, and channels being full, fill the small pools; the small pools being full, fill the large pools; the large pools being full, fill the rivulets; the rivulets being full, fill the great rivers; the great rivers being full, fill the great ocean;
so too, monks, for a noble disciple, whatever unwavering confidence in the Buddha, whatever unwavering confidence in the Teaching, whatever unwavering confidence in the Community, and whatever morality pleasing to the noble ones -
these mental states, flowing, having gone to the far shore, lead to the elimination of mental corruptions."
The eighth.