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  I heard a certain story concerning this "bitter gourd" the other day. The stage is China. There is the pupil of two to go to worship almost every day, and, for a teacher, is "is what today, or should take it to the prayer to God though go?" and an answer, "take a bitter gourd" when ask it it once. With a bitter gourd, the pupils gave it to God as they were said to a teacher, and they took the bitter gourd home after they worshiped it earnestly. 
  I gave it to the shrine and asked a teacher it as I did not know what to do although I took the bitter gourd which became the sacred thing home with me. Then the teacher said, "boil the bitter gourd". The pupils boiled it without understanding well what you wanted to say and cooked it and they gave it to a teacher and ate together. The pupil who ate a bitter gourd grimaced in the bitterness. The teacher who saw it said that it was, "this bitter gourd is the thing which after all was very bitter though I gave it to God and worshiped it heartily". 

 

  And the pupils realized it immediately. Giving the bitter gourd to God who is how much, and not becoming sweet at all about anything, and being bitter if I eat. In other words, "the bitter thing is bitter" noticed the pupils if what which "the bitter thing does not become sweet only by having boiled it" took saying "it is tasteful in the bitter inside" was important. 

 

  This realization, "the bitter thing is bitter" thinks that I can replace it with our life. The life is something like bitter gourd, too. The life does not go the way oneself want it to, and it happens the hot unpleasant thing. However, something is born there when I received it plainly. I notice that is experienced that a hard actually hard experience looks back later and greatly bring oneself up. It will be that there is what I get from there when I challenge what the bitter taste including ... which a strong bond was born with the friend who shared the hard work that came to understand the pain of the person through pains does a lot. In this way, my life gradually adds to depth while I face you and, as well as bitter taste, may become richer in the taste that is a thing ... state to do of the taste that is sour in the life and the salty taste.

Principal Kinuko Asahiro