"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 

"Shunyata does not mean non-existence, or a void, nor does it describe some transcendent reality such as God or Brahman. Acording to Nagarjuna, shunyata simply refers to the fact that things have no essence of self-being of their own. All things arise and pass away according to causal conditions, which means they are dependent on other things that also arise and pass away."

Money, sex, war, karma

"Equanimity here does not mean disconnection or neutral feeling, but a much more profound state that allows one to remain imperturbable in the face of even the strongest feelings. When one realizes that the arising feeling is one thing, while the attitude generated in response to it is something else entirely, the chain of compulsive causation is broken and a moment of freedom is born."

Unlimiting mind - p.79

"One can discern, with the faculty Buddhists call wisdom, that all experience is shaped within a matrix of cause and effect. The “disagreeableness” that has arisen is merely a mental attitude of aversion, coagulating around a particular feeling of displeasure, which co-arises with the cognizing of a particular sensory object. The attitude is a product of one’s dispositions, which are themselves nothing more than patterns of learned responses that have built up during a lifetime (or more) of acting and reacting in the world.

Such a breakthrough in understanding allows for a dramatic and immediate liberation of the mind from the coercion of desire—both the desire to hold on to what is deemed agreeable and the desire to push away what is disagreeable. When one realizes that the arising feeling is one thing, while the attitude generated in response to it is something else entirely, the chain of compulsive causation is broken and a moment of freedom is born.

One can now choose to respond differently, and the agreeable/disagreeable attitude that forms the warp and woof of our suffering can be replaced by something capable of embracing both pleasure and pain without reaction. Serene, yet radically intimate with experience, we can, like the Buddha, abide in any moment with the hint of a smile on our lips."

In the blink of an eye - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review - Spring 2006

"Nothing in the world is absolute. Everything is conditioned, relative and interdependent. This is the Buddhist theory of relativity.

There can be nothing absolutely free, physical or mental, as everything is interdependent and relative."

What the Buddha taught - p.53-54

"O fato de você estar onde está neste momento é resultado de todas as condições que o criaram e sustentaram, e lhe permitiram estar exatamente onde você está agora. Na verdade, há momentos em que fica absolutamente claro que toda a história da Terra, provavelmente toda a história do cosmo, precisava ser exatamente como foi para que você estivesse exatamente onde está agora."

Não faça nada, só fique sentado. p-115