• The impossibility of being free from attachment without abandoning self-grasping
• Attachment to the self cannot be abandoned merely by meditating on it as flawed
• As long as one has self-grasping one will still have attachment and aversion
• Refuting the views of Vaisesikas
• Merely meditating on evident suffering is not a path to freedom
• As long as there is a sense of self we won’t reject what is useful to the self
• Refuting relationships asserted by Vaisesikas
• The impossibility of meditating on a permanent person meditating on suffering