Maṃsa
Flesh
Maṃsa — the flesh, sixth item of the list and the opener of the second pentad (flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidneys). Visuddhimagga VIII.90 describes the flesh as 'nine hundred lumps of meat plastered onto the bone-cage'; the contemplative is asked to see the body as a butcher's display, not a self. We place this rendered point at the right-shoulder / clavicle landmark as a representative location for the flesh, which has no canonical single seat. The bilateral muscle bulk of the upper torso is the natural visual proxy.
Point 4 of 8 in Theravāda 32 Parts of the Body (Dvattiṃsākāra)
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Majjhima Nikāya 10.10 (primary_canonical)
“In this body there are head hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, large intestines, small intestines, contents of the stomach, feces, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, mucus, oil of the joints, and urine.”
MN 10.10 names flesh (maṃsa) sixth in the paṭikūla-manasikāra list. Its inclusion documents that the exercise attends to the body beneath its visible surface, as part of the same 32-part enumeration.
Visuddhimagga VIII.90 (primary_canonical)
“There are nine hundred pieces of flesh in this body, all smeared with the body's filth.”