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The Goal is Resonance | Shreyas Hariharan

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Nothing feels better than resonance. Whether you have a billion dollars or are well respected or enlightened, you are still seeking resonance. Even the Buddha was seeking resonance. Why else would he share his teachings with others? Resonance is feeling understood. It is improvization, banter, a jamming session. You’re playing music with others and they are building on it. But isn’t the goal enlightenment? Going to the hills and meditating? The point of meditating in the hills is to feel oneness with humanity; in fact, oneness with everything. You feel a similar oneness when you laugh at a friend’s joke or they laugh at yours. When two people work on a shared project – a joke, a product, an essay, a story – and are able to understand and build on each other, that’s the peak of the human condition. Resonance is being in flow state but with another person. To find resonance, you need to create. Creation is an act of tapping a tuning fork and seeing who resonates. Creation is the risk. Re

March 14, 2021 The Goal is Resonance Nothing feels better than resonance. Whether you have a billion dollars or are well respected or enlightened, you are still seeking resonance. Even the Buddha was seeking resonance. Why else would he share his teachings with others? Artist: London Tsai Resonance is feeling understood. It is improvization, banter, a jamming session. You’re playing music with others and they are building on it. But isn’t the goal enlightenment? Going to the hills and meditating? The point of meditating in the hills is to feel oneness with humanity; in fact, oneness with every

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