Hi
Yes we need to be creative and not follow stuff dogmatically whatever the stuff is.But at once one should have a solid background / infrastructure which i’m convinced Pure Dhamma is…
It might not be the best strategy to always shut down unfavorable thoughts “by force”. Sometimes one should let it surface and discard it after a brief moment of observation. It also happens that if you say to yourself something like “you want to think about that ? Ok think then…” the thoughts in question simply vanish which is about “mind tricking the mind”… imo.
This is somehow related too to my previous post, that i’m going to reformulate asap.
One should be at once relaxed and aware of everything here and now : body, mind and environment. There’s more then one way of doing it .
Also one thing to avoid is tiredness – the more tired one is, the less defenses one has to conveniently manage “Mara” and alike.