What is the purpose of this practice? To generate greater awareness and attain enlightenment. In striving toward these objectives, many hindrances are encountered, but the main hindrance is attachment. The eighth verse deals with attachments. Although you have great aspirations for your spiritual practice, you don’t attain the results you would like. Why is this? It is because you continuously become sidetracked by your attachments. Attachments come from a mind that is unable to let go. If existence was timeless and objects eternal, it might be reasonable to form attachments. But life is very short and objects impermanent. If you endow objects with such an exaggerated sense of reality that they seem to be truly existent you become engrossed with them. But objects do not arise, abide or cease by themselves; they are not inherently existent. They appear in reliance on causes and circumstances.