The thoughts and emotions from the depths originate from the manas

Hypnosis is a technique that uses psychological suggestion to communicate with the subject's subconscious. Because the subconscious mind's function of doubting and resisting external information is weakened, the hypnotist employs positive hypnotic suggestions, also called information—such as confidence, courage, and dignity—to replace the subject's pre-existing negative information, also called experience—such as anxiety, fear, and depression—thereby enabling the subject to enter a state different from their original one.

What does the above article about hypnosis illustrate? Where do a person's thoughts and emotions come from? Especially those thoughts and emotions that are relatively hidden, hard to perceive, and difficult to deal with and overcome—where do they come from? Are these thoughts and emotions a form of feeling (vedanā)? Is feeling very complicated? Why does feeling arise?

The article illustrates that a person's thoughts and emotions all originate from the manas; they are the manas's reactions to sense objects, its feelings toward sense objects—that is, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness. Because when encountering sense objects, the objects are taken as truly existent, one cannot be without mind, and thus feeling arises. Those thoughts and emotions are not at all pleasant, not joyful, not comforting; that is why one lies sleepless through the night and tries every possible means to treat and eliminate those thoughts, emotions, and feelings, not wanting them to persist. These feelings include pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling; they are not of only one kind.