1. Abandon what is unskillful, develop what is skillful
2. The four Noble truths
This is stated at minute 7 of https://youtu.be/1tMW4oSrsjc
It might also be stated in Skill in Questions (his book), but I looked for it and couldn't find it.
Why does this matter? All other answers are conditional, i.e. they are only correct or useful sometimes. This means they are sometimes misleading.
If you are weak on discernment and the ability to figure out from a group of competing ideas, this says you can always go back to #1 and #2. They will not lead you astray.
Fortunately and unfortunately, they don't spell out exactly what is skillful or what is unskillful, nor do they spell out how to accurately see suffering, its causes, and its cessation. So you still need to use your watcher and discernment to figure things out. But number one and number two give you a framework. You try something. You see if it's useful. You keep going with it if it is. And if it's not useful, you switch.
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