Mind base is which aggregates?

[Adutiya]

Here are some recent quotes from Ven. Sujato regarding objects and mind objects in particular:

@sujato

In Buddhism, sense experience is always relational. Visual perception arises with the eye, a stimulus for the eye, and eye consciousness. These things exist in relation with each oher. Eg. if you move the position of the eye, the “sight” will also change.

For these reasons, it is always best to avoid the word “object” in early Buddhism (unless talking about material objects, etc.)

@sujato

ārammaṇa is never found in the sense of “object” in the EBTs. It is always used in the sense of “reliance, support”. Nor is there any other term used in this way; I translated the entire four Pali nikāyas without ever once using the concept of a “mind object”.

Philosophically, an “object” is problematic because it implies something that exists “objectively”. What could an “object” be, if not something that exists “out there” independent of the observing mind? The purpose of the Buddha’s teachings on cognition is to undermine any such conception, speaking only of experiences that arise in a process of mutual interdependence.