http://www.fjdh.cn/wumin/2014/03/222150323542.html There were no creatures on earth. The Deva came to earth from Ābhāsvara. There were no sun, moon, stars, or days and nights. There was no time or seasons. The Deva from Ābhāsvara were self-luminous beings that could fly in the sky. They often travelled between the earth and Ābhāsvara upon its discovery. The Deva needed no consumption of foods. Their lifestyle was beyond our understanding. The Deva found a thing called “the Milk” on earth. Some of them randomly grabbed and tasted it. Originally, the way the Deva consumed foods was different from that of ours. That made them lighter and always luminous. Yet, since the point when they craved for “the Milk,” they grew muscle. They became heavy and could no longer fly in the sky. They were able to walk on earth since then. They no longer radiated pure lights. Due to such ceasing of self-luminous status, sun, moon, and stars emerged. The sun appeared, and with the earth’s rotation, days and nights came to be. The moon revolves around the earth. A complete revolution of moon around the earth is a month. The earth revolves around the sun. A complete revolution of earth around the sun is a year. The more Milk they consumed, the uglier they became. Deva who consumed lesser still retained their beauty. From that moment, there was beauty and ugliness in appearance. The beautiful ones looked down the ugly ones. The ugly ones became jealous about the beautiful ones. Once they had difference, they had argument and they fought. The Milk disappeared, but there was less-tasty “earthly savory” everywhere. The Deva who consumed more became ugly. Those who consumed less were beautiful. They saw each other as obstructing existence, and eventually they made war on each other. The earthly savory disappeared, but there was another substitute with lesser taste. The same thing happened. When the second kind of earthly savory disappeared, the soil grew natural rice. It’s a kind of bran-less grain that tasted delicious. It needed not be cooked and they could just grab it and eat it. There was no distinction of men and women. The two sexes derived from the consumption of the grain. Those with greater emotions were women, and those with lesser emotions were men. Men and women grew affection and love among them. The Deva who did not consume earthly savory and the grain were noble and supreme beings. They blamed these men and women. The men felt shameful of themselves and kneeled. The women brought food to them and held them up. Since then, the men called the women who brought them foods wife. The Deva blamed them for their doing and ordered them to leave. These men and women returned after three months of moving around. They found out that other Deva were doing the same thing. And no one felt it wrong to become husband and wife. The Deva did not live in houses when they arrived at earth. But then they had distinction of men and women, and so they built houses for shelter. Before consuming the grain, they were born out of incarnation. Since the time when they became men and women and were able to reproduce, the mothers could become pregnant and give birth to children. Humans are then “born from mother” thereafter. Originally, when humans were hungry, they gathered natural rice and ate them on the spot. Later, some were lazy and gather two portions a time. Such allowed them to offer sufficient foods for five days. In ancient times, people reaped the cereals. The rice could grow naturally, and they needed not to cultivate them. Later, they reaped the rice too much. Then the rice ceased to grow and natural rice was no more. Instead, the soil grew cereals with bran. People had to thresh and filter before cooking them for food. This kind of cereal did not grow as fast as before. In order to cultivate the cereal, people divided the land. Their own fields came to be. Some farmers had poor harvest, and so they stole others’ properties. And they fought each other. They selected a good-looking and virtuous person to resolve their disputes. In return they would give him foods. That man was called a king. In the beginning, the kings were virtuous. But later, some kings became fatuous and foolish. Originally, human life span lasted 84,000 years on average. When they started to theft and hurt each other, Their life became shorter and shorter. Three thousand years ago When people could live 100 years in average, Gautama Buddha appeared in this world and redeemed many people with the Dharma. Later on, the humanity still made evil karmas. Their life span reduced even further to the nowadays 70 years on average. When their life span was reduced to 10 years in the future, females married and gave birth to children 5 months old. Their height decreased one inch per 100 years to one foot. They became barbaric and the end of world shall come. At this point, all grains went extinct. If one could find a grain, he would treasure it just like how we treasure our jewelries now. Fleshes scattered due to excessive slaughter of lives. Nothing could be consumed as foods. People cooked the withered bones to sustain their lives. They had no fabrics but only human hair for their clothes. Human hair was the most luxurious material for clothes. Their sacred bodies were no longer wearing jewels and gems but were armed with blades and steels. The land became barren and no grains could be grown. Mosquitos, hornets, and serpents disturbed people together. Gold, silver, agate, and other precious stones and metals no longer existed. They could no longer hear the Daśa-kuśala-karmāni (Ten Good Practices). They no longer respected their parents and elders. They only did evil things. Rage filled in their heart and they often killed and slayed each other. A cruel war finally broke out. People used grass as weapons to kill each other. Some hid deeply in the mountains or caves. When they met, they told each other: “I won’t kill you So don’t kill me.” Seven days later, they went down the mountains, finding that the war had ended. Those who did not hide in the mountains had all been destroyed. The entire world had been through a catastrophe. Only ten thousand people remained. Those who survived and returned, seeing this tragedy, cried in mourn for seven days. They then celebrated for seven days more for their fortune of survival. They determined that they shall spare no efforts in doing good and so their life span increased. People’s childhood extended to five hundred years, and women could still go into marriage or give birth to children at the age of 500. Everyone was healthy. Only nine pains and diseases still lingered in this world. People could feel cold, People could feel hot, People could feel hungry, People could feel thirsty, People could have need for urinating, People could have need for defecating, People could have desires. People could eat too much. People still grew old. Besides these problems, they met no challenges. All could have enough foods and water. Their life span increased or sometimes went back to the decreased state. Following Gautama Buddha, Maitreya incarnated in this Sahā world And enlightened the people. He then became the fifth Buddha of bhadrakalpa. Resource：Excerpt from Venerable Master Hsuan Hua – 人的始祖，是從光音天來的
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