ETH 2000 Point Defense Battle? Don't be silly, in a situation without certainty, just sit on the sidelines and watch the bodies being collected.
April 2nd / Heavy Rain / Liuzhou
In the afternoon, I went to a big sister's tea house to drink tea. I encountered a couple of lay practitioners who came to mooch tea. The man is a retired teacher, and the woman constantly talks about her practice. They have been helping the master in the temple for many years, doing miscellaneous tasks.
In the lines of the chat, one can hear that they feel they are kindred spirits with the master, discussing life's philosophies on the same level. I sat silently next to them, drinking tea, finding it quite amusing. The biggest illusion in this world is taking the politeness granted by others as the confidence to sit at the table.
Class, wealth, energy fields, the fractures of these things are extremely cruel. This tone has been set since the era of Qin Shi Huang: what is primary and what is secondary; who sets the rules and who is the NPC that follows them. How can you possibly share equal footing with them? You wish.