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Saturday, December 20, 2025

The Climb (Gospel Choir)

The Climb

Jonalyn Viray

I can almost see it

That dream I'm dreaming

But there's a voice inside my head saying

You'll never reach it

Every step I'm taking

Every move I make

Feels lost with no direction

My faith is shaken

But I, gotta keep trying

Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain

I'm always gonna want to make it move

Always gonna be an uphill battle

Sometimes I'm going to have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there

Ain't about what's waiting on the other side

It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing

The chances I'm taking

Sometimes might knock me down

But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it

But these are the moment that I'm gonna remember most and

Just gotta keep going

And I, I got to be strong

Just keep pushing on, cause

There's always gonna be another mountain

I'm always gonna want to make it move

Always gonna be an uphill battle

Sometimes you're going to have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there

Ain't about what's waiting on the other side

It's the climb

There's always gonna be another mountain

I'm always gonna want to make it move

Always gonna be an uphill battle

Sometimes I'm going to have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there

Ain't about what's waiting on the other side

It's the climb

Keep on moving

Keep climbing

Keep the faith

Baby

It's all about

It's all about the climb

Keep the faith

Keep your faith

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Your Practice

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You Are Your Practice

Buddhist practice pulls both ways. From one perspective, it is a discreet activity, something we do. From another perspective, one that tends to emerge more clearly with time, it seems less something we do and more something we are.

Henry Shukman, “A Matter of Misdirection”

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A Heart Bigger Than the World
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu

A Theravada monk on generating a boundless goodwill imbued with heedfulness.

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RIGHT EFFORT
Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate healthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to healthy states. (MN 19)

Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to maintain arisen healthy mental states. One maintains the arisen awakening factor of mindfulness. (MN 141)

Reflection

The premier list of healthy mental and emotional states includes the seven factors of awakening, the first of which is mindfulness. It is good to practice mindfulness frequently, for that will incline the mind to further mindfulness. Right effort has a lot to do with developing and maintaining healthy habits of mind and body. It is not always easy to do the right thing, and it often takes effort, but it is invariably good for us.

Daily Practice

The effort required to sustain the state of mindfulness over time—that is, over multiple mind moments in a row—is not the teeth-clenching discipline of forced action but rather the gentle willingness to come back to the present moment. See if you can access a way of understanding effort that is easeful and natural rather than strained. Think of the effort you put into doing the things you like to do—it is an easy effort.

Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and Abiding in the Fourth Jhāna
One week from today: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States

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