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.
Discernment (panna) distinguishes skillful from unskillful. For example - use it like a sensitive hand and it can detect and peel off layers of blockage - and restore enjoyment. This rest is samadhi.
