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Originally Posted by ayar415
What is the point to mindfullness?
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When we imagine it has a point, we mean it gets us what we might desire. We do the meditation as a means to the end, are still trying to get something, and hence retain a future orientation. Mindfulness concerns the truth, and it has nothing to do with what anyone wants/doesn't want. This makes the point of it different to what we usually think of as the point of something, because the point isn't to get something. The point is to cease trying to get something. In that way it is the cessation of the desire which incites volition, which is what some call 'surrender'. However, you can't surrender willfully, since surrender is the cessation of will. Surrender is willing, yet not wilful.