How to Alleviate Emotional Clinging and Liberate the Mind from Suffering?

If a person harbors excessively deep emotional attachments, their innermost heart is inevitably fraught with incessant entanglements and manifold sufferings. How can one alleviate such attachments? The best method is to contemplate the impermanence of the world, the impermanence of every family, and the ultimate outcome of every family; to contemplate the impermanence of every individual and the ultimate outcome of every individual; to observe the impermanent changes within one's own and others' minds, and to carefully reflect on what in these worldly phenomena is truly worthy of clinging to. Then, reflect on all the emotions experienced throughout one's countless lifetimes—what ultimately became of them; consider what results sentient beings have attained after soaking in various emotions for countless kalpas, observe what each person brought from their past lives, and what they can take with them after death in this life; discern what is eternally unchanging within oneself, what one can most depend upon, and what truly belongs to oneself forever.

Furthermore, observe and reflect upon one's parents, partners, children, friends, relatives, and all family and loved ones from countless kalpas—where are they now? Where have all those affections gone? Why does one revolve in the cycle of suffering life after life? It is all due to clinging to attachments between oneself and others, thereby binding one's own heart and failing to transcend the six realms of rebirth. Sentient beings crave life after life and revolve in the cycle of birth and death, fundamentally rooted in emotion and attachment. Knowing this, one should cease pursuing the very source of suffering in the cycle of birth and death. Instead, one should gradually extract oneself from the mire of craving and attachment, progressively moving toward freedom and liberation.