400.000.000 people on Earth share this teaching as knowledge:
Put yourself fully in context of the outer world. Realize it as it is, not as you wish or wish not it would be. Then after asking the question "how life should be lived?" consider, how could you be the most effective within this society. Buddhism is a formal self-improvement through the very proven methods that enable us to recreate conditions that allow as realize impermanence and interdependence. If you look inside with meditation, you can touch the magical moment more often as usually.
Be aware, practice what you decided with mindfulness and do not forget: since the Buddha showed us that just by thinking, hearing or saying his name, each and every one of us are able to realize, that you, you too are a buddha, and that the realization of that cannot be explained.