釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 8.62

8.62

If one hears the names of the five aggregates, one immediately perceives that they correspond to the five viscera of the body: form corresponds to the liver, consciousness corresponds to the spleen, perception corresponds to the heart, feeling corresponds to the kidneys, and formations correspond to the lungs. Although the names are not in [canonical] sequence, their meanings correspond. If one hears of the twelve sense bases and eighteen elements, one also immediately knows that they correspond to the five internal viscera. The ten sense bases and fifteen elements can be naturally understood. The two sense bases and three elements will now be distinguished: the five consciousnesses all constitute the mental sense base and mental element; the five external sense objects and the internal mental object constitute the dharma sense base and dharma element. These correspond across the twenty-three elements.