法苑珠林 90.27

90.27

又最妙勝定經云。千年之後。三百年中。浩浩亂哉。逃奴走婢亡失破國多不存活。入吾法中。猶如群賊劫奪良善。當爾之時十二部經沈沒於地。不復讀誦經典。設有頭陀者。多不如法。常游聚落不在山林。乃至法師解說佛語。萬不著一。爾時多有白衣若男若女。持戒淨行呵責比丘。白衣去後共相謂言。今我解者。如佛口說。或邪言綺語無義之語。以作義語。如盲人指天上日。若大若小等。

Furthermore, the Most Wondrous Samādhi Sūtra states: "A thousand years later, during a period of three hundred years, there will be vast turmoil! Fleeing male and female slaves and those from ruined and fallen states who mostly cannot survive will enter my Dharma, just like bands of thieves robbing the virtuous. At that time, the twelve branches of scriptures will sink into the earth, and no one will recite the sūtras anymore. Even if there are those who practice dhūta, most will not follow the Dharma, constantly roaming among villages rather than staying in mountain forests. As for Dharma masters explaining the Buddha's words, not one in ten thousand will hit the mark. At that time, there will be many laypeople, both men and women, who observe the precepts and practice purity, rebuking the bhikṣus. After the laypeople leave, they will say to one another: 'What I now understand is just as spoken from the Buddha's own mouth!' Or they will take heterodox speech, ornamental speech, and meaningless talk to be meaningful words, like a blind person pointing to the sun in the sky, talking of whether it is large or small, and so forth."