Happy Buddha’s Birthday! This year, it also overlapped with Teacher’s Day, which is probably as it should be! So after the morning service, at 5am, the sunims here all went to the hermitage just down the road where Daehaeng Kun Sunim’s pagoda is and did three bows, sung both the standard Korean “Teacher’s Song,” as well as a Dharma song (Live Magnificently) and then recited the Heart Sutra. (Some of these photos are from past years, because it was apparently decided that we needed more rain today! The weather was fine for the noon ceremony, but afterwards, it really started raining down.)
Wake Up and Laugh! 
“because it was apparently decided” – lol! Perhaps the rain was the blessing from Medicine Buddha (8th of lunar calendar is Medicine Buddha day) 🙏