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William Blake wrote, “To see a world in a grain of sand. And a Heaven in a wild flower.” The Buddha talked about three thousand realms, and in the view of Taoism, the human body is a cosmos.
There are stories from ancient China of people entering a vast world through a small opening.
A World Inside a Gourd
There was an official named Fei Changfang in Runan who was in charge of bazaars during the Eastern Han Dynasty. An old medicine seller at the market always had a gourd hanging at the door of his shop.
