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.