"What was it like before heaven and earth existed? (Author's interpretation: what was it like before the Big Bang?)"
"Suddenly, I comprehended the void. Before heaven and earth existed, there was first the unmoving void, boundless and limitless, neither moving nor shaking."
"Heaven and earth may perish, but the void does not."
Chen Jue rapidly leafed through the Five Works in Six Volumes on the bookshelf before him, the understanding in his eyes gradually becoming clearer.
These scriptures had been compiled by Patriarch Luo of the Wuwei Teaching. His original name was Luo Menghong, and he went by the title Lay Buddhist Wuwei. He had enlisted in the army when young, then begun seeking teachers and the Dao after leaving the service. Ultimately, he had "realized the Dao and illuminated his heart," founding the Wuwei Teaching.
The tenets of the Wuwei Teaching resembled those of the Southern school of Chan Buddhism, dispensing with written scriptures and rejecting Buddhist statues and temples. It was also called the Wukong Teaching.
Understanding emptiness, understanding emptiness-only by comprehending true emptiness could one transcend.
Among the doctrines of the Wuwei Teaching was an eight-character true formula, the very famous phrase Chen Jue had spoken, which could be heard in numerous films and television shows: "Wusheng Laomu, True Emptiness, the Otherworld."
Patriarch Luo had created this eight-character true formula for cultivation from the insights of his own practice, taking absolute, eternal true emptiness as the foundation of the universe.
"Patriarch Luo's ideas were based on the Vajra Prajñā Sutra. He himself advocated liberation through nonaction and the unification of the three teachings, emphasizing internal elixir cultivation."
"His cultivation realm should have touched the Transcendent Level. Without Primordial Qi, he cultivated his physical body to the perfection attainable in his time, enough to rival people like Shakyamuni,