The Universe is so vast, and so much of it is unexplored, it makes our little home feel sometimes stifling. It reminds me of the Lotus Sutra, a Buddhist text, and its vast, mind-blowing descriptions:
The Buddha: “Suppose someone were to take five hundred thousand billions of myriads of countless three-thousand great thousandfold worlds and grind them into dust. Then, after going east through five hundred thousand billions of myriads of innumerable lands, one of those specks of dust was deposited. And suppose he continued eastward until he had used up all those specks. What do you think, my good sons? Is it possible to imagine or calculate the number of all those worlds?” (pg. 291-292)It's interesting how the ancient Indians, like today's astronomers, marveled at the great Universe around us.
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