Don't think that you are not qualified. If you train according to the teaching, you will surely attain enlightenment." He thus noted that the disciples at the time of Sakyamuni were not all outstanding people, denying the decadent age by saying that it is nothing more than a skillful means.
非器なりと思ふ事なかれ、依行せば必ず得べきなり」と、釈迦時代の弟子衆にもすぐれた人ばかりではなかったことを挙げて、末法は方便説に過ぎない、と末法を否定した。