[Amerworma]

My Buddhism is simple

Karma = How you act right now influences what happens in the future.

Life is suffering = discontentment, unsatisfactory, a longing or a thirst for something. Much of the confusion comes from the interpretation of Pali into English.

Living in the present moment = Mindfulness, Being awake to now, being in the reality of now and not lost in daydreams of the past or in fantasies or dreaming of the future.

Try not to take things to literally when you first read them. I've found it helps to read about these things from different authors as it builds up a good all round picture from slightly different view points.

Metta