A student was meditating in Ajaan Fuang's presence when- in a spasm of mindlessness-she slapped a mosquito that was biting her arm. Ajaan Fuang commented: "You charge a high price for your blood, don't you? The mosquito asks for a drop, and you take its life in exchange."
Lesson to learn:
Negative karma doubles everyday when it is not purified. From being very light, it can become very heavy, negative karma. For instance, when we kill a mosquito we don't have a bad conscience, so we do not purify ourselves and do not confess. But after fifteen days, the tiny act of killing that mosquito has expanded so that it is equal to the negative karma of killing a human being - very heavy karma indeed. It is the same with other negativities. For example, the heaviest karma are created with the mind and when this happens, it increases in the same way. So there is a huge need to purify and accumulate merits in order to avoid suffering."
