Ignoring the question of authority for someone who claims to be a Zen teacher is not a solution to controversy Please note the section on teachers in the Zen section of the Wikipedia article on Zen John McRae s Seeing Through Zen and James Ford s Zen Master Who As Long as Cheri Huber asserts she is a Zen teacher but refuses to name the teacher who authorized her as such the question hangs in the air When references to this are deleted it creates a defacto POV