An odd reaction to my genuine engagement with what he clearly deems to important enough to blend with his Dharma activity. I’m a tad disappointed that he has been trained such that any sort of suggestion or question is taken as a direct challenge.
May his wishes be fulfilled.

Yes that’s true. Perhaps I should have said something like ‘conditioning’ - but in so far as his entire upbringing was under Dharma teachers and so on, I sort of just jumped from some basic psychological conditioning, to a sort of ‘training’.