June, 2007 - Hacienda de Guru Ram Das
June, 2007 - Hacienda de Guru Ram Das June, 2007 - Hacienda de Guru Ram Das
June 15-23 June 23 June 24-July 1 6th of the month Sundays 6:30 am Every Thursday at 12:30 pm Fridays 4:30—5:32 pm Gurdwara or langar hall Sunday’s after langar NOTICE OF CHANGE June Ashram Events Summer Solstice gathering Miri Piri Graduation At the La Mesilla home of Guru Bachan Singh and Kaur Women’s Camp Ongoing Events Gurdwara commemorating the martyrdom of the Akal Takhat. This is traditionally a “Wishand-a-Dish” langar meaning each person prepares a dish filled with their prayers and wishes to share with the sangat. Ishnaan Seva, washing the marble floors in the Gurdwara. All are welcome to participate in this uplifting event. Langar served in the Langar Hall. All welcome! To help, call Amrit Kaur, 753-7705 for food preparation, and Deva Singh at 927-0988 for general information. Prosperity Meditation to “develop the intuitive business mind and bring prosperity home.” Free healing sessions are held in the Gurdwara. Acupuncture treatments by Guru Mitar Kaur and Sat Nam Rasayan Free Clinic treatments. Sat Nam, our monthly newsletter is now available in living color on our website, www.espanolaashram.com. You can read and/or print out and enjoy at your leisure. This method will save printing, paper and labor costs for our Community Growth Fund. Of course, if you are not able to do this, or just prefer, we will be happy to mail a copy to you with your statement each month as we have done in the past. Call Mata GuruMeher Kaur at 367- 1315 or email gurumeherk@Sikh Dharma.org. Blessings. Hacienda De Guru Ram DAS Words of Wisdom From the Siri Singh Sahib Ji for Parents “We’ve got to train our children to know that weapons are not something just to go around killing people with. Weapons are to be respected, they are an object of reverence, they are for defense, they are something for grace. Those parents who give their children toy guns to play with and to shoot are not doing the right thing. That’s not the way to train children. It’s wrong. They should try to teach children reverence about guns. And that is my special request to mothers. If they give them these toys and teach them to enjoy shooting anything and everything, they lose the perspective and the respect of what shooting really is, and what arms are and what they can do, and then sometimes things really happen wrong. Please try to see that your children at least do not play in a very unrespectable way with arms. It’s not right. That is why we wear a sword and we respect it. We take it and touch it with our foreheads, we show it that way. That gesture means that your total soul is involved with it, and you are not going to misuse it. But if you think that arms are just a game, that you can just go bang, bang, bang and that life can be just bang, bang, bang well then you are just looking for trouble. I have seen people giving water pistols to children, and that’s not right. It creates a confusion in the mind of a child. Our children need to learn many things and it is up to us to see that they receive the proper education.” For the entire article, see Beads Of Truth # 37 Winter, March 1978 2
Hacienda De Guru Ram Das By Guruka Singh Computer Corner Making Windows Work Better Okay, if you’re a Mac user, skip the beginning of this month’s column because it’s devoted to cool tools that make Microsoft Windows work better for you. I’m indebted to Nirvair Singh for turning me on to Directory Opus 9 – the amazing Windows File Manager and Explorer Replacement. I haven’t like the File Explorer that comes with Windows for quite some time, and I was using a replacement called “Explorer Plus,” but Opus 9 is even better. I could go on for this whole column about all of its features, but hop on over to www.gpsoft.com.au/ and check it out for yourself. It works with Windows XP and Windows Vista. I’ll never go back to using Windows the way it ships. Opus 9 is truly a must. now switched all my computers over to a different shell called Aston Shell www.astonshell.com/ It not only makes Windows much faster (a boon for both XP and Vista) but it’s even easier to use and much more attractive. Here’s a screenshot: Looks sort of like Windows Vista doesn’t it Well it’s not. It’s Windows XP running Aston Shell using a skin that looks like Vista. No, it’s not complicated or hard to do. Aston Shell has a completely automated installation and you can always switch back to the usual Windows interface any time if you like. I’ve been using Microsoft Office 2007 for a while now and I really love the new interface. Yes, I know we all get used to what we’ve been using in the past, but sometimes things do improve a lot, and the new Office Suite is actually easier to use than any of the older ones. Last month I challenged everyone to try some new search engines in addition to Google. Have you tried them yet Actually Google is very powerful, but most of us only use a fraction of its power. Do you think you know how to use Google Check out this video and I guarantee you will learn some new tricks: http://urltea.com/lkk Well, this was sort of a geeky column this month, so if you got lost along the way, please forgive me and I’ll try to be a bit less geeky next month. How about going a little further and replacing the Windows shell itself What’s the Shell It’s what you see – your “desktop” - aka the user interface of Windows. Sound scary It’s not really. What you see on your computer screen isn’t actually Windows. It’s a program running in Windows called Explorer.exe – yep, that’s the Windows shell. Windows is running “behind the scenes” and the shell is the “pretty face” you see. I have Do let me know if this column is useful to you. If you have a suggestion for a column topic, or if you have any of your own tips or cool downloads you’d like to share with the Sangat, please email them to me at guruka@sikhnet.com so I can put them in this newsletter. Thanks! 3
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<strong>Hacienda</strong> De <strong>Guru</strong> <strong>Ram</strong> <strong>Das</strong><br />
By <strong>Guru</strong>ka Singh<br />
Computer Corner<br />
Making Windows Work Better<br />
Okay, if you’re a Mac user, skip the beginning of this<br />
month’s column because it’s <strong>de</strong>voted to cool tools that<br />
make Microsoft Windows work better for you.<br />
I’m in<strong>de</strong>bted to Nirvair Singh for turning me on to Directory<br />
Opus 9 – the amazing Windows File Manager<br />
and Explorer Replacement. I haven’t like the File Explorer<br />
that comes with Windows for quite some time,<br />
and I was using a replacement called “Explorer Plus,”<br />
but Opus 9 is even better. I could go on for this whole<br />
column about all of its features, but hop on over to<br />
www.gpsoft.com.au/ and check it out for yourself. It<br />
works with Windows XP and Windows Vista. I’ll never<br />
go back to using Windows the way it ships. Opus 9 is<br />
truly a must.<br />
now switched all my computers over to a different shell<br />
called Aston Shell www.astonshell.com/ It not only<br />
makes Windows much faster (a boon for both XP and<br />
Vista) but it’s even easier to use and much more attractive.<br />
Here’s a screenshot:<br />
Looks sort of like Windows Vista doesn’t it Well it’s<br />
not. It’s Windows XP running Aston Shell using a skin<br />
that looks like Vista. No, it’s not complicated or hard to<br />
do. Aston Shell has a completely automated installation<br />
and you can always switch back to the usual Windows<br />
interface any time if you like.<br />
I’ve been using Microsoft Office <strong>2007</strong> for a while now<br />
and I really love the new interface. Yes, I know we all<br />
get used to what we’ve been using in the past, but sometimes<br />
things do improve a lot, and the new Office Suite<br />
is actually easier to use than any of the ol<strong>de</strong>r ones.<br />
Last month I challenged everyone to try some new<br />
search engines in addition to Google. Have you tried<br />
them yet Actually Google is very powerful,<br />
but most of us only use a fraction<br />
of its power. Do you think you know<br />
how to use Google Check out this<br />
vi<strong>de</strong>o and I guarantee you will learn<br />
some new tricks: http://urltea.com/lkk<br />
Well, this was sort of a geeky column<br />
this month, so if you got lost along the<br />
way, please forgive me and I’ll try to be<br />
a bit less geeky next month.<br />
How about going a little further and replacing the Windows<br />
shell itself What’s the Shell It’s what you see –<br />
your “<strong>de</strong>sktop” - aka the user interface of Windows.<br />
Sound scary It’s not really. What you see on your<br />
computer screen isn’t actually Windows. It’s a program<br />
running in Windows called Explorer.exe – yep, that’s<br />
the Windows shell. Windows is running “behind the<br />
scenes” and the shell is the “pretty face” you see. I have<br />
Do let me know<br />
if this column is<br />
useful to you. If<br />
you have a suggestion<br />
for a column<br />
topic, or if<br />
you have any of<br />
your own tips or<br />
cool downloads<br />
you’d like to<br />
share with the Sangat, please email them<br />
to me at guruka@sikhnet.com so I can<br />
put them in this newsletter. Thanks!<br />
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