"I see Gotama's vision to be primarily concerned with these fundamentals:

An understanding of conditionality as the context for
A fourfold task:

to comprehend suffering,
to let go of the arising of reactivity,
to behold the ceasing of reactivity, and
cultivate an eightfold path that is grounded in the perspective of

Mindful awareness and leads one to become
Self-reliant in the practice of the dharma." 

After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a secular age