# Momentariness and understanding **URL:** \ **Category:** Interesting Threads\ **Created:** [April 3, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/momentariness-and-understanding/92 "2022-04-03T04:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![RobertK](https://classicaltheravada.org/user_avatar/classicaltheravada.org/robertk/32/1498_2.png) [@RobertK](https://classicaltheravada.org/u/RobertK)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/momentariness-and-understanding/92/16 "2022-04-25T09:18:11Z")
> [@bksubhuti](#): > > I still don’t understand how this relates to the title you added Dear Venerable yes it is a bit oblique. I actually needed a place to park this excellent phrase and thought this will do for the time being. There is a relation though: samsara is simply a stream of moments only one arising at a time before falling away. And as you explain in your helpful book [Abhidhamma Book Comparing Abhidhamma and Computers](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/abhidhamma-book-comparing-abhidhamma-and-computers/60)) there can only be one at a time. So when there is understanding of a moment or series of moments this is also understanding samsara… --- _[View the full topic](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/momentariness-and-understanding/92)._