Skillful Buddhist Meditation Teachers What teachers of Buddhist meditation can guide students skillfully? I mean, teachers who are lay or monastic, teachers who are alive, teachers who have died but left skillful dhamma works to guide students and teachers of any tradition that follow the Buddha's words from the three baskets. 

*I am basically asking about teachers that might not be we'll known but the few students that do know always praise the teacher's approach as skillful.



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It seems there are some great and unique meditation teachers out there that aren't as popular as some teachers, possibly because they shunned publicity, didn't allow teachings to be recorded, lived far from the world in hard to get to places and so on. 
.    So the questions are:

1- What tends to be the differences between the more  charismatic or popular teachers and the less known but master   teachers?
2-What hard to find master teachers of Buddhist meditation are out there and what is there approach to teaching?
Thank you :)
It seems there are some great and unique meditation teachers out there that aren't as popular as some teachers, possibly because they shunned publicity, didn't allow teachings to be recorded, lived far from the world in hard to get to places and so on. 
.    So the questions are:

1- What tends to be the differences between the more  charismatic or popular teachers and the less known but master   teachers?
2-What hard to find master teachers of Buddhist meditation are out there and what is there approach to teaching?

Thank you :)
As far as my curiosity managed to spread to far, I think Ajaan Fuang is a great example. Not much is known about him except for a few transcribed talks and some quotes here and there, and some stories told by his students of their experiences with him.

One thing I remember about him, as far as being different goes, was that one time some Thai Monk Magazine (or something along those lines) went after him, trying to get an interview. When he heard about this, he avoided them at all cost. Finally they managed to pin him down somewhere, and asked him, "Could you give us a dhamma talk?" His response was, "Yes. Today's dhamma talk is one word: 'buddho.' If you can't keep this in mind, there really isn't any point in my telling you anything else."

Another great quote is,


  If I have to explain everything, you'll get used to having things handed to you on a platter. And then what will you do when problems come up in your meditation and you don't have any experience in figuring things out on your own?


I highly recommend the book Awareness Itself available for free at DhammaTalks.org.