³²In Discourses, III.24.85, Epictetus provides an “anticipatory” version of this: “[I]f you kiss your child, your brother, your friend, (...) keep reminding them that they are mortal. In such fashion do you too remind yourself that the object of your love is mortal; it is not one of your own possessions; it has been given you for the present, not inseparably nor for ever, but like a fig, or a cluster of grapes, at a fixed season of the year, and that if you hanker for it in the winter, you are a fool.” See also Samyutta Nikaya 22.33, where the Buddha takes this approach to the extreme in the sense that he recommends abandoning everything, including your own body and any aspects of your mind.