1. Remembrance conjures fanciful phantasms
For the mind, and the mind cannot help but

2. Conceive of it as object and rejection
Of the purpose of remembrance, constricted and unbound.

3. And thought roams the layers of understanding,
Increasing the imagination's imagining,

4. Until when understanding realizes what it imagined
In the aspect of the mind, divided and conjoined.

5. Then desire inclines toward it, wanting
To grasp what the mind was engaged with.

6. So remembrance is like scent set out and conveyed
Beyond its general sense, dissolved and refined.

7. Then conception displayed to its occurrence
Like the eye looking on extension and limit.

8. And thought is like taste or speech, sharing
In approach and withdrawal, refused and accepted.

9. And understanding is like hearing, content in its reasoning
In the context of knowledge, prohibited and analyzed.

10. In it will progresses toward its passion
Like touch, keeping the proof of sense denoted.

11. These are the spirit's powers in man; if they collect
In reason, they make the unknown known.

12. So take up arms against them forever, O monk,
If you cannot be a killer, you will become the killed.