What other sort of demonstration did you have in mind?
I was not making any assumptions about what sort of demonstration it might be. I was neither assuming that it would be a verbal explanation nor that it would not be. “What sort of demonstration” is precisely the question that I was asking.
And my point was simply that that first possibility seems like a real one, which means that “he might slap you in the face” is not quite like “he might tell you to stop interrupting his lecture”.
You see, this is why I addressed my questions to people who know the answer (i.e., people who know things about Zen, e.g. Gordon), not to people who are speculating based on no knowledge of the subject.
I was not making any assumptions about what sort of demonstration it might be. I was neither assuming that it would be a verbal explanation nor that it would not be. “What sort of demonstration” is precisely the question that I was asking.
You see, this is why I addressed my questions to people who know the answer (i.e., people who know things about Zen, e.g. Gordon), not to people who are speculating based on no knowledge of the subject.