[A human Being]

Originally Posted by Gem

However, you can't surrender willfully, since surrender is the cessation of will. Surrender is willing, yet not wilful.

This is such an important point, and you articulated it nicely. I think this can be quite a hard thing for humans to grasp, because we tend to be very much geared towards striving and straining to achieve some result, and this striving and straining - which is how willfulness manifests itself - becomes so habitual that it's very easy to overlook it. So I think it's very important to be aware of this habit when we meditate, and to just allow it to fall away in its own time.