According to Osho, attachment is the mind’s clinging to people, things, and hopes for pleasure, which inevitably produces sorrow when truly seen. It persists because we haven’t realized this by our own experience; we still secretly expect enjoyment, postpone awakening, and are misled by the crowd’s example. In the rare presence of the awakened it is obvious, but absent that vision, clinging continues until firsthand seeing makes it drop effortlessly.
We keep holding a hurting thing because we still think it will feel good, and everyone around us is holding it too—only when we clearly feel the hurt ourselves do we let it go.