Five spirits

Also five spiritual entities. Five entities, each of which is stored by one of the five viscera. ethereal soul stored by the liver; spirit stored by the heart; ideation stored by the spleen. corporeal soul stored by the lung. mind stored by the kidney. The five spirits are also referred to as that which each of the five viscera stores (五脏所藏 wǔ zàng suǒ cáng). Note that the term is also translated as five spiritual entities to distinguish the spirit stored by the heart from the others.