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Namaste! Buddha Animation Available As Ecard @ HDGreetings

by Eric Ryser -/\- March 08, 2008

Perhaps another sign of a New Age dawning, spiritually-minded users can now find bliss with meaningful ecards entitled "Namaste Jewels" at new forward-thinking ecard company, HDgreetings.

Before this past week, the animated ecard fare at HDgreetings.com was merely amazing; clever, funny, certainly varied, but that's it...no pure bliss. Everything the heart could want in the way of birthday, holiday, humor, romance, and more... but nothing for all us "Namaste people", and indeed no overt spirituality of any kind...(unless you include the rather minimalist and cosmically if not comically disappointing horroscope series).

Hold on a minute...Namaste People? What is that, a strange new cult? No... well, that's not how I meant it, anyway, but I'm sure that chances are at least fair that a group of people somewhere (probably in or around Eugene Oregon) are planning on naming their new religious order something pretty close to that. However, what I mean by "Namaste people" are people that use that word as a form of greeting, at least once in awhile. Let me explain:

In large part due to the rise in popularity of yoga and New Age spirituality in this country, the word 'Namaste' is gradually becoming less foreign-sounding to American ears, and globally...it's one of the few Sanskrit words widely recognized by non-Hindi speakers. Namaste can refer to gestures of respect using the hands with palms touching, or it can also be a spoken or written friendly, often reverent, greeting; it's meaning and usage are nuanced and situational, though not nearly as much so as the liquid, multi-purposed hawaiian word 'Aloha'. Basically, namaste translates to an acknowledgement of the unity of Spirit within both self and other (greeter and greet-ee, if you will).

Okay, now that we have established a logical need for an eNamaste, that has now been ostensibly filled...with the introduction of my superb animated ecards at HDgreetings...

-after all, in this day and age everything that is now simple (and free) must be made (at minimum), high-tech, immersive, and viral-

*wink*

All neoluddite -flavored kidding aside, devotees and afficianados of eastern spirituality are sure to resonate well with Buddha-occupied Realms embodied in these Namaste Jewel ecards. Resonate Well, since the music that accompanies them have just the right harmonic vibrations to sonically massage the message and help the healing. What is the message? Simple: peace, beauty, clarity, calmness, appreciation, respect, nature. How can you get that all from a 10 second animation? Well, if you have to ask...you're probably not playing Namaste ecards right now.

Prescription for a stressed office break? -take a deep slow breath, and let a Namaste Jewel play, one more time; look, listen, light focus...and relax.

And, it's still free...how's that for stress-free?

Well, what about viral activism? Can we all really grow a message of peace through our emails? Well, that mostly depends on what we are writing in our emails; I admit that on occasion I may have given some hapless person the impression that this strange new word Namaste meant "here, let me tear you a new one"...

-Hey, man, I'm just a wordly, mildly well-intentioned computer animator, and these polygon-crunching 3D software thingys have been known to drive saints amok (which is a Malay word meaning violently enraged by stuff that Don't Work Right and taking it out on longsuffering tech support people)-

...but, assuming we can get our Selves under control, we can definitely use a simple viral emailing technique to spread Namaste Jewels, thus propagating our highest intentions. I like the following method because it is low-tech. Meaning, you don't have to have a fancy gizmo that will append a signature line to all of your personal emails. If you wish to use such a gizmo of course you may, but for the rest of us who don't want to bother with additional widgetry just now, here is an easy way to append a signature line to any email you wish: simply keep a notepad or wordpad or other text document with the signature line handy; I keep it open on my computer, always ready to copy and paste the line to the bottom of my emails:

namaste! sending messages of peace
www.hdgreetings.com/artist-profile.aspx?name=eryser

So, it's simply the signature message followed by the url to the ecards, which creates a link to them in the modern email utility; most utilities do not require an 'http://' prefix to url.

In this way, the recipient of the email (who is someone that hopefully trusts you at least a little bit) can click on the link and find out what you mean by that. To make it truly viral, encourage them to do the "copy/paste text doc thing" with their emails, too.

And with that encouragement to propagate Namaste as both a mindset, and a jewel of a useful ecard that propagates that mindset, (infinite recursion, anyone?), I bid all my readers a fond ... Aloha!
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