I know very little about meditation, but it seems to me that a goal could be to develop awareness of and perhaps even more control over one’s thoughts, and that

I know very little about meditation, but it seems to me that a goal could be to develop awareness of and perhaps even more control over one’s thoughts, and that emptying one’s mind might be a useful exercise even when the goal is not to have a permanently empty mind. Kinda like how the goal of weightlifting usually isn’t to be able to permanently carry around heavy weights all the time.