Is There a Trade Off Between Mastery and Exposure?

The more you do, kind of get the handle on different things, the easier it is to pick up new things. In buddhism, historically, there are traditions that would emphasize awareness more than is emphasized in contemporary western Buddhist presentations. I thinktt, those are a kind of better starting points than the breath or the body. It would be fascinating to me if the west took a right hemisphere version of buddhism and turnedt into a left Hemisphere version of buddhisism which focuses more on the things left hemister does.