大方廣佛華嚴經疏 53.10

53.10

第九「被甲」下二門，明九地行法師入有，備外嚴故。初門明入地十心，如被甲防內，將趣入故。十句可知。二、十器仗。器仗破外，以住地心窮十稠，外無不破故。十中，前五順仗破障；次三違仗破障，如令賊破賊故；次一非順非違仗，如以良謀，不用兵仗，無不破故；後一切成立德仗。

Ninth, the two gates from "putting on armor" on down explain the practices of the ninth stage, where the dharma-master enters existence and fully prepares external adornments. The first gate explains the ten minds for entering the stage: like putting on armor to guard the interior when about to advance into it. The ten phrases are easy to understand. Second, the ten weapons. Weapons destroy the external: by means of the mind that abides in the stage, one penetrates the ten thickets, so that externally nothing is not destroyed. Among the ten, the first five are compliant weapons that destroy obstacles; the next three are contrary weapons that destroy obstacles, like ordering a thief to destroy thieves; the next one is a weapon neither compliant nor contrary, like using a clever stratagem without resorting to soldiers and weapons, whereby nothing is not destroyed; the last one is the weapon of virtues that establishes everything.