From what I observe of people today in Japan, most of them are practicing expedient teachings. Although they appear to be practicing the true teaching in “body and mouth,” they still believe in expedient teachings deep in their hearts. Therefore, Grand Master T’ien-t’ai says of these people in his Great Concentration and Insight, fascicle 5:

“Ignorant people, heavily dosed with poison, losing their minds, cannot believe in efficacious medicine. Since they cannot believe in it, it does not help them at all. They are sinful people. Those who dislike the world seeking the way of the Buddha by clinging to expedient teachings are like those who try to cut a tree by trimming the leaves and branches instead of chopping the trunk. They are similar to a dog who befriends a servant instead of its master, and to those who revere a monkey as Indra, or take pieces of tile or pebbles for gems. They are unreasonable. How can we discuss the Buddhist way with them?”

Shugo Kokka-ron, Treatise on Protecting the Nation, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 1, Pages 54-55