Section 6 — Right faith is the rarest thing正信希有分第六
1Who Will Give Rise to True Faith?
須菩提白佛言：「世尊！頗有眾生，得聞如是言說章句，生實信不？」
Subhuti said to the Buddha, "World-Honored One! Will there be beings who hear such words and passages as these and give rise to true faith?"
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生正信心，最為希有
To give rise to a mind of right faith is the rarest thing of all.
2A Single Thought of Pure Faith
佛告須菩提：「莫作是說。如來滅後，後五百歲，有持戒修福者，於此章句能生信心，以此為實，當知是人不於一佛、二佛、三四五佛而種善根，已於無量千萬佛所種諸善根，聞是章句，乃至一念生淨信者，須菩提！如來悉知悉見，是諸眾生得如是無量福德。何以故？是諸眾生無復我相、人相、眾生相、壽者相。」
The Buddha said to Subhuti, "Do not speak so. Even in the fifth five-hundred-year period after the Tathagata has passed into nirvana, there will be those who keep the precepts and cultivate merit, who give rise to a believing mind at these passages and take them as true.
Know this: such a person has planted good roots not with one Buddha, or two, or three or four or five Buddhas, but has already planted every kind of good root in the presence of measureless thousands upon thousands of Buddhas. That is why, hearing these passages, they give rise to pure faith even in a single thought.
Subhuti! The Tathagata knows them all and sees them all. All these beings gain merit as measureless as this. Why is this? Because in these beings there is no longer any mark of a self, mark of a person, mark of a being, or mark of a life span."
3No Mark of Dharma, No Mark of Non-Dharma
「無法相，亦無非法相。何以故？是諸眾生若心取相，則為著我、人、眾生、壽者。」
"They have no mark of dharma, and no mark of non-dharma either. Why is this? Because if these beings grasp at marks in their minds, they are clinging to a self, a person, a being, and a life span."
4The Parable of the Raft
「若取法相，即著我、人、眾生、壽者。何以故？若取非法相，即著我、人、眾生、壽者。是故不應取法，不應取非法。以是義故，如來常說：汝等比丘，知我說法，如筏喻者，法尚應捨，何況非法。」
"If they grasp the mark of dharma, they cling to a self, a person, a being, and a life span; and if they grasp the mark of non-dharma, they cling just the same to a self, a person, a being, and a life span. Therefore they should not grasp at dharma, and should not grasp at non-dharma.
For this reason the Tathagata always says, 'You monks, know that my teaching of the Dharma is like the parable of the raft. Even the Dharma must be let go — how much more what is not the Dharma.'"