Tao-sheng: Short of Reaching the Ultimate

At that time you caused us to think over all things and to clear away the dirt of fruitless discussions about them.

This is connected with the second [part of the] parable, intended for preaching the doctrine of the three vehicles. [The words] one day’s wages disparage the self-satisfied mind of the Lesser Vehicle. The merits they had accumulated when they were blind are equal to no more than those the bodhisattvas would accumulate in one day. They are so little and are short of [reaching] the ultimate.

Tao-sheng Commentary on the Lotus Sutra, p236