There are six things that you may twist or misinterpret in your practice: patience, yearning, excitement, compassion, priorities, and joy.

• It is a misinterpretation of patience to be patient about everything in your life but the practice of dharma.
• Misinterpreted yearning is to foster yearning for pleasure and wealth but not to encourage the yearning to practice dharma thoroughly and properly.
• Misinterpreted excitement is to get excited by wealth and entertainment, but not to be excited by the study of dharma.
• It is twisted compassion to be compassionate to those who endure hardships in order to practice dharma, but to be unconcerned and uncompassionate to those who do evil.
• Twisted priorities means to work diligently out of self-interest at that which benefits you in the world, but not to practice dharma.
• Twisted joy is to be happy when sorrow afflicts your enemies, but not to rejoice in virtue and in the joy of transcending samsara.