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

If a person is deeply afflicted by emotional attachment, their innermost being is undoubtedly entangled in constant turmoil and profound suffering. How can one alleviate such afflictive attachment? 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 contemplate the impermanent changes within one's own and others' minds, carefully reflecting on what in these worldly phenomena is truly worthy of attachment. Further, reflect upon all the emotions experienced throughout one's countless lifetimes—what, in the end, was their final outcome? Observe what results sentient beings have obtained after soaking in all kinds of emotions throughout immeasurable kalpas; observe what each person brought from their past life and what they can take with them after death in this life; what is that which remains eternally unchanged within oneself, what is that which one can most depend upon, and what is that which truly belongs to oneself forever.

Furthermore, observe and reflect upon one's parents, partners, children, friends, relatives, and all family members and loved ones from throughout countless kalpas—where are they now? Where have all those feelings gone? Why does one revolve in the cycle of birth and death, suffering life after life? It is all because of attachment to one's own and others' emotions, thereby binding one's own mind and failing to escape the six realms of rebirth. Sentient beings, regardless of the object, cling to life, leading to renewed clinging, revolving in the cycle of birth and death—with emotional attachment as the root, love as the fundamental cause. Knowing this, one should no longer pursue the very root of suffering within the cycle of birth and death. Instead, one should gradually extract oneself from the mire of craving and attachment, progressively moving towards freedom and liberation.