法苑珠林 21.31

Language: Classical Chinese

21.31

如涅槃經佛言。眾生有二。一者有信。一者無信。有信之人則名可治。定得涅槃。瘡疣無故。無信之人。名一闡提。名不可治。又雜阿含經。世尊為婆羅門說耕田偈云。

As the Buddha said in the *Nirvāṇa Sūtra*: Sentient beings are of two kinds: one is those with faith, and the other is those without faith. A person with faith is called treatable, and is certain to attain nirvāṇa, because they are free of sores and warts. A person without faith is called an icchantika, and is called untreatable. Furthermore, in the *Saṃyukta-āgama*, the World-Honoured One spoke the verse on plowing the field for a brāhmaṇa:
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