Is it really about never thinking those things, or is it about training yourself to have the ability to turn those thoughts off when you want to? Like meditati

Is it really about never thinking those things, or is it about training yourself to have the ability to turn those thoughts off when you want to? Like meditation is about not thinking, but it doesn't mean you try to never have a though again... it just means you have a degree of control over when you put gas on that fire and when you let it burn down.