What can you learn from a meditation teacher beyond the basics?

With most skills like tennis, Yoga, martial arts, etc. a coach/teacher can help you advance in various progressions in a linear format with physical results. With meditation, I’ve been to a few zendos where I received good advice related to my posture, reminders when I was slumping over, distracted, etc,, but past that there wasn’t really much other advice offered other than to just sit for longer. So I’m wondering, is the path to improvement in meditation just to be able to sit for longer periods of time (which I can now do for a few hours just fine)? or is there something I’m missing that I can l learn from a teacher that I couldn’t do by myself just meditating at home? submitted by /u/letsdrinkgreentea [link] [comments]