A Zen pistol shooter  posted this recently and it is important enough to pass along here.  Sensei, coach, instructor, professor, master, teacher.  These are all guides.  The better ones point the way with more clarity perhaps than others but the student must accomplish the learning. Then forget the learning and be.  There is no dogma in the search for truth.  Thanks Brian!

“You yourself have to be the master and the pupil. The moment you acknowledge
another as a master and yourself as a pupil, you are denying truth. There is
no master, no pupil, in the search for truth.”

-Krishnamurti