(Clearwisdom.net) I am a doctor and have a good understanding of modern medical science. I know that mosquitoes can spread disease. When I first started cultivating, I killed mosquitoes when they bit me. I thought that was right. However, as I study the Fa more, I gradually developed a new understanding about this issue.

My hometown is in a poor village next to a big river. Five years ago, when I went to visit my mother during the summer, I saw that she was covered by red spots on her arms, legs and neck. I thought she had contracted some severe disease. But my mother told me that she was fine, and had looked like this for years because of all the mosquito bites she gets. When I saw all the mosquitoes on the ceiling, I believed what she said.

I tried to view this from the Fa's perspective and realized: People's lives are pre-determined, including diseases. If they are not supposed to have the disease, they will never have it. If my mother does not have karma, mosquitoes would not have bitten her. Isn't this karma elimination? So I let go of my worry for my mother. Recently, a relative told me that my mother is very healthy. She is even able to do some farm work. For a ninety-year-old woman, after being exposed to mosquitoes for so many years, she is still so healthy. Why should we practitioners be afraid of mosquito bites?

In Zhuan Falun Fajie - The Law of Zhuan Falun Explained, a practitioner asked, "If we're bitten by a mosquito while doing the meditation, is it okay to scratch the bump?"

Master says,

"If you've scratched it, you've scratched it, but it's best if you don't. When you scratch while practicing, your qi mechanism will be fouled up. As a matter of fact, these are all forms of interference from demons, so don't worry about them. Isn't it a good thing to pay off your karma?" ("Teaching the Fa and Answering Questions in Jinan" from Zhuan Falun Fajie - The Law of Zhuan Falun Explained)

In "Teaching the Fa at the Eastern U.S. Fa Conference" (1999), a practitioner asked, "The blood of a cultivator is very precious. How can it be allowed to be sucked away by mosquitoes?"

Master says,

"Do you know how dirty your blood is when that karma of yours is being expelled during your cultivation? Did you know that what mosquitoes suck out is something filthy? Of course, in our cultivation, when our bodies get healthier and healthier and become better and better than everyday people's, it could still happen. Suppose that mosquito was a life that you once killed before this lifetime--wouldn't you have to pay it back? Yet what's sucked away will definitely not be something precious. Don't always look at how you've been harmed. Why don't you think about how to repay the karmic debts you owe? Some people have killed many, many people in their previous lives, and they've done a lot of bad things. Now they want to cultivate today and not even allow mosquitoes to bite them? You want to just leave here as if nothing happened? How could that work? If you have cultivated really well or have very little karma, you'll see that the mosquitoes won't be able to get near you--they will bite those around you, but not you." ("Teaching the Fa at the Eastern U.S. Fa Conference")

From now on, when mosquitoes bite me I will hold the thought: I am a practitioner. Especially when I practice the exercises, I will not move at all. I have noticed that when I have this thought, often times, mosquitoes will just fly away. We practitioners should aspire to higher principles.

When mosquitoes bite us, it might be that we have karma in that area. For practitioners, even when we get bitten by mosquitoes, it is meant for us to eliminate karma and upgrade our Xinxing. Practitioners should not be afraid of mosquito bites or hate mosquitoes.

I recall something a practitioner couple told me. Nine years ago, they were doing farm work. Mosquitoes kept biting the husband. The wife blamed the husband, "Why are the mosquitoes biting you but not me?" Right after she said that, it was as if the mosquitoes were directed; they all came to her. The wife realized that this occurrence was due to her attachment to blaming others.

I heard that in recent years, some practitioners refused to practice the exercises outdoors. The reason was that it was too cold in the winter and there were mosquitoes in the summer. I suggest that they should study the Fa more and examine themselves to see whether their thoughts are based from the Fa or not.