Using Buddhist logic can help us to overcome failure and ensure success, by using a realistic strategy based on reason.

Is it important not to trivialize the practice of taking safe direction (refuge), since it is a foundational practice that actually implies having knowledge of the Buddhas, Dharma and Sangha that can be discussed on many levels.

Even non-Buddhists can have valid apprehension of voidness, but not non-conceptional cognition, and thus cannot achieve a true stopping of suffering.

The intermediate scope of the lam-rim teaches that a precious human life enables liberation from samsara by training in ethical self-discipline, concentration and discriminating awareness of voidness, with special emphasis on keeping pure pratimoksha vows as the essential foundation.

Understanding the twelve links of dependent arising and the five aggregates reveals how unawareness and karma perpetuate samsara and how realizing voidness leads to liberation from suffering and rebirth.

It is important to reflect on the causes of suffering because disturbing emotions and the karma they generate bind us to the cycle of dissatisfaction, death and rebirth, whereas counteracting them through Dharma practice leads to liberation.

The Mahayana and Theravada presentation of the points on which the Buddha remained silent, since to answer them would only create confusion in the minds of questioners.

The six attitudes that will bring us to liberation and enlightenment, and their benefits even in this life.