Anyone who[, while he is staying outside the place of the expounding of the Dharma,] says to another person, ‘Let us go and hear the sūtra called the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma which is being expounded [in that place],’ and cause him to hear it even for a moment, in his next life by his merit , will be able to live with the Bodhisattvas who obtain dharanis. He will be clever and wise. He will not be dumb throughout thousands of millions of his future existences.

Why is the recompense [“for having rejoiced at hearing”] the Dharma Blossom administered this way? [The Buddha] merely takes up what men feel like [having]. Hence, [the Buddha] says: “[the body into which he is reborn] shall acquire carriages, as well as palanquins fitted with precious gems.”

His breath will not be foul.

There is nothing that can be disliked.