The Diamond Sutra - Section 6

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Subhuti asked the Buddha:

Honored throughout the world,

in the future, will there be beings who,

upon hearing these teachings,

will have true confidence in them?

The Buddha replied:

Subhuti, do not speak like that.

Two thousand five hundred years after the

passing away of the Tathagata,

there will be beings who, having practiced

the rules of morality and, therefore,

being possessed of merit, will hear these statements

and understand their truth.

You should know that such beings

have planted their root of merit

not only under one, two, three,

four or five Buddhas,

but under innumerable Buddhas.

When such beings, upon hearing

these statements, awaken even

for a moment of pure and clear confidence,

the Tathagata will see them and recognize

their immeasurable amount of merit.