O.K. it's not the Buddha's sevenfold path, (sunny jimmy says: kill your god, adopt a dog), but I found this little write up quite stimulating. This about the practice of craft, from old King Crimson guitarist R. Fripp. I'm thinking you can apply it to the craft of anything, living included:
1. Act from principle
2. Begin where you are
3. Define your aim simply, clearly and briefly
4. Establish the possible, and move gradually to the impossible
5. Honor necessity
6. Honor sufficiency
7. Offer no violence
8. Suffer cheerfully
9. Work, but not solemnly
10. Without commitment, all the rules change
