cheapo hippo & yabbing yabbie: our future

I was lucky enough to have secured my ticket months ago... HHDL is visiting australia again, the second time in the last 3 years... this time around, the public talk is back in the entertainment centre again (like 3 talks ago, unlike last time, which was held in the domain)...
i thought this time around, i would record the valued bits and pieces i remember from the talk (so to make the most out of such great motivational teachings and to supplement my slowly failing memory)...
it was already 1:50pm as i reached ETC, so there was no time for any merchandise shopping (on that later)... i headed straight inside to resume my seat... more than 50% of the audience was still busily rushing to the toilet and parting with their cash for the merchandise though...

it was courageous to see kylie kwong there as the MC... much would be at stake for her with troubles awaiting... with her future china travels(& visas woes) from now on... i cannot say i would be brave enough to openly act the same... she spoke briefly of her path finding tibetan buddhism which helped her through her days of loosing her dad (due to cancer)...
by this time people were still streaming in from the entrances while kylie was talking... it would have been much better if the organisers told everyone it started at 1:30pm...
HHDL and hsi interpreter ascended onto the stage with kylie's intro...
then the aboriginal rep greeted everyone, welcoming everyone on their native land...
the first words of the HHDL was surprisingly un-PC & hard on the ear.. i was a bit surprised as he described "the lack of education of the aborigines" (or to that effect)... everyone was silent!
i think it was his tibetan-english at work here... i think his main message was the importance of education & current lack of support in education in the indigenous community...
the rest of the talk was much more PC from that point onward...

he had his trademark anti-spotlight cap on (plugged out of this marron environmentally friendly bag)... the main takehome points i remember included:

our future will be our vision of hope our positivity
who is responsible? no one but ourselves
increasing battle between external materialism vs inner peace as we head to the future, external materialism can only temporarily masks our inner aggitation (negative emotions eg anger, stress, etc) and does not create inner peace
shantideva quote,"if you can do something about it, why worry? and if you cannot do anything about it, why worry?” there's no point in diverting ones energy into worrying
everyone wants to be happy... true happiness comes from compassion
there are 2 levels of compassion - biological (may be with attachement) & next level without attachment
wisdom / knowledge -> right effort -> known destination (enlightenment); knowledge alone without know destination or right effort would not result in enlightenment
daily tip - on awaking (in the morning), set one's positive destination (then the rest of the day, one can follow the path of positive attitude, effort, motivation to reach the set destination!) <-- hmm may be that's why people meditate in the wee hours of the morning...