Do These 'ah ahhhh' moments mean anything in Buddhism!!

ashcatman

Every now and then I could be going along in my day when I stop and think 'ah ahhh,I get it' and it feels great/bliss.

Then few days later 'that feeling goes away'

But then I might hear something or read a verse or quote and then again 'that feeling comes' ahhhh I totally get it now'

And then goes again lol.

Do we all experience this. And why does it come and go?

snGus

It depends on what this "ah ahhh" is related with I guess.

Vincenzi

it is called satori if that feeling is related to the Dharma

andyZ

I think that's absolutely normal. Just don't get attached to those moments and don't try to recreate the feeling. I think deep down something happens little by little so at some point a fundamental shift happens in your perceptions of reality.

genkaku

it is called satori if that feeling is related to the Dharma

Sometimes it can be called satori and sometimes it is better described as a bit of self-serving intellectual or emotional imagination. Either way is fine. Either way, it serves as a bit of inspiration to keep on practicing.

One thing that might be worth noticing ... to the extent that anything 'different' seems to have occurred, it is a good indicator that more practice is warranted. Any time "better" occurs, it is a sure indicator of "worse," of some other state. Where heaven and hell are distinguished, it's a sure indicator that hell has got the upper hand.

Practice, practice, practice.

seeker242

We all experience this coming and going but many are not aware of it. Being aware of this is very beneficial! Paying close attention to this coming and going, of all these things, is very beneficial!

"False Apparent Continuity covers up and camouflages Impermanence:
The characteristic of impermanence does not become apparent because,
when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by continuity...
However, when continuity is disrupted by observing rise & fall here & now,
the characteristic of impermanence becomes apparent in its true nature.
Vism. Ch. xxi/p. 640"

It comes and goes because that is it's fundamental nature, one of the Buddhas "Three Marks of Existence"

"Impermanence of things is the rising, passing and changing of things, or the disappearance of things that have become or arisen. The meaning is that these things never persist in the same way, but that they are vanishing dissolving from moment to moment"

Suffering arises because people try to hold on to these things because when you hold on to these things, and then they disappear which they inevitably will, you are now left empty handed. People don't like being empty handed so they go out and grab on to something else and then that disappears too and it happens over and over and over. When the pleasant things are there, happiness. When they disappear, unhappiness. This is "Samsara". You are now directly witnessing in real time, one of the Buddhas most fundamental teachings. Pay close attention to it! Because doing so will allow you to eventually realize that nothing is worth holding on to and when you let go, you get freedom!

"When realizing that all states passes on and evaporates instantly,
one realizes the impossible futility inherent in all forms of clinging.
It is like sand running out between the fingers. It can never be kept!
Nothing can ever be kept, owned, possessed, maintained, or retained!
So let it go. Release it! Relinquish it all. Do not fear. Nothing lasting is lost!
It was never your's anyway. It will go away by itself anyway. It is pain anyway!
It was never really the same anyway, & it will never ever return again anyway..."

FoibleFull

My teacher says "not".

(he has been a monk for 40+ years, since entering the Dalai Lama's monastery at age 12)

Cloud

I think those moments are glimpses of firm understandings to come. They represent a part of the mind has wiggle room to see things from another perspective. Eventually all of our "written in stone" views about ourselves and our world/universe need to change, but it takes some work to see things in a truly different way. We're reversing our conditioning, or conditioning ourselves in a different direction, and there are many steps along the way.

YoungBuddhist

everything comes and go, even the 'ahh ahhhh' moments are temporary, just like everything else. Just try to be happy that you had the moment, then let it pass

Jeffrey

Its called insight and it is what is liberating from samsara. What happens though is ego cuts in and kills it. It tries to figure out how to get more, or it congratulates itself.