Although he excelled in scholarship and was a promising priest, he left the temple because of his mother's admonition saying 'You should endeavor to enlighten people as an inconspicuous priest by preaching to them whilst wearing a sedge hat and no sandals, rather than by pursuing high status only through studying.'
学識に優れ将来を嘱望されるが、実母に「学問だけをして偉くなるよりも、黒衣の非俗として菅笠裸足で往来し、済度衆生を果たしなさい」と諭され下山。