8.
The Discourse on the Reviler
88.
"Monks, a monk who reviles and abuses, who slanders noble ones among his fellows in the holy life, this is possible, there is the opportunity that he might undergo one of ten disasters.
Which ten?
He does not attain what has not been attained, he declines from what has been attained, the Good Teaching does not become purified for him, or he has overestimation regarding the Good Teaching, or he lives the holy life without delight, or he commits a certain defiled offence, or he experiences a serious illness, or he reaches madness and derangement of the mind, he dies deluded, upon the body's collapse at death he is reborn in a realm of misery, an unfortunate realm, a nether world, in hell.
Monks, a monk who reviles and abuses, who slanders noble ones among his fellows in the holy life, this is possible, there is the opportunity that he might undergo one of these ten disasters."
The eighth.