Thought Moments is a Buddhist term for the ‘mental states experienced after a physical or mental object enters the mind’ (physical objects we can see, hear, touch or sense; mental objects, we remember or imagine). This film records the answers to questions asked of people on the high streets of the UK. The questions are simple but they seek to reveal our true nature; our loves and fears.

I read about ‘Thought Moments’ when I was a Theravada Buddhist monk in Bangkok. I learned that the Buddha identified thought moments and their sequences, quite specifically, going so far as to count and name them. The next day, I read an article in a Bangkok Post (delivered every day to the temple) about a new technique in America for scanning the brain which showed the sequence of brain states during the thought process, even going so far as to count and name them. The frequencies of these thought moments described by both the Buddha and the scientists were remarkably similar.

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