Right Effort (in Pali, samma vayamo), along with Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration, make up the mental discipline section of the Path. The most basic, traditional definition of Right Effort is to exert oneself to develop wholesome qualities and release unwholesome qualities. As recorded in the Pali Canon, the Buddha taught there are four aspects to Right Effort. Very simply --. The effort to prevent unwholesome qualities -- especially greed, anger and ignorance -- from arising. The effort to extinguish unwholesome qualities that already have arisen.