大方廣佛華嚴經疏 53.10

53.10

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.