the five spiritual faculties: vigor [3] -- strategies for the four right strivings

In my last post, I introduced the four right strivings: Prevent the arising of unarisen, unskilled states, Abandon already arisen unskilled states, Cultivate unarisen skilled states, and Keep already cultivated skilled states. PACK is a handy mnemonic device. That last post mainly discussed what is meant by "skilled" or "unsiklled" (although in that post I used the word "qualities" and here I used the word "states" as a shorthand for "mental states". The original word means both of those). The notion of PACK was left kind of in the abstract. In this post, I'd like to introduce some concrete strategies for achieving this.

Just some quick bookkeeping, though, for anyone who hasn't been following along, this is the fifth in a series of posts on the five spiritual faculties or powers:

1. introduction
   
2. faith
   
3. vigor [1]
   
4. vigor [2] -- the four right strivings
   

Coming up are the faculties of recollection, stillness, and wise discernment (or mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, as they are traditionally translated in Buddhist Hybrid English).

( So, how do I PACK? )