Refuges and precepts offer the practice of Protecting our Dharma-hearts.They are then a source of inner wealth, friendship and an asset for meditation.
As our daily-life world comes into awareness, We are called upon to meet it push back aagainst its delusion and seek new approaches - this is the path.
A simple aim of practice is to make you feel better! This comes around through tuning into the present feeling of skillful mindsets and using that to dispel negative ones.