| | I find your account more standard, than exception. I don't know about your guy, but most people don't have much awareness of other schools, their specific teachings, their methods, and especially of subtle differences in treatment of something like "mindfulness". Sometimes, instead of ignorance, there's arrogance, meaning "what they teach isn't mindfulness". A Zen teacher I knew thought Vajrayana doesn't really teach meditation. I've come to know many other cases like this, both in person and through books. Huge blind spots of other kinds - intellectual, sexual, interpersonal, social - are also not uncommon among teachers. One could separate the "aptitude as a qualified guide" from the general narrow-mindedness, like with a guitar instructor or something, though it sometimes gets extremely tricky. |