Is Right effort The Most Important Part of the eight fold path?
People often think that The Noble Eightfold Path has to go in consecutive order, as if it were a ladder where the lowest rung of moral conduct makes it possible top get some concentration, which itself leads to insight then wisdom. However, the Noble Eightfold Path shows this to be incorrect. It doesn’t start out with moral conduct. It starts out with wisdom. The Noble Eightfold Path has to be looked upon not as a ladder, but as a eight-lane highway on which one has to use all lanes. It’s also a circular movement because it starts out and ends with Right View. Although Right View is only mentioned at the beginning, the result of treading the Noble Eightfold Path will be absolute Right View. Ajahn Sumedho gives much insight into the Four Noble Truths/Eightfold Path – on the Website “What Buddha Taught” http://what-buddha-taught.net/Books3/Ajahn_Sumedho_The_Four_Noble_Truths.htm Metta to all.
