Desirable things don’t disturb their mind,

nor are they repelled by the undesirable.

Both favoring and opposing

are cleared and disappeared, they are no more.

Knowing the stainless, sorrowless state,

they who have gone beyond rebirth understand rightly.”

Numbered Discourses 8.7 1. Love Devadatta’s Failure

At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left. There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta:

“Mendicants, it’s good for a mendicant to check their own failings from time to time. It’s good for a mendicant to check the failings of others from time to time. It’s good for a mendicant to check their own successes from time to time. It’s good for a mendicant to check the successes of others from time to time. Overcome and overwhelmed by eight things that oppose the true teaching, Devadatta is going to a place of loss, to hell, there to remain for an eon, irredeemable.