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Originally posted by dwid
I know I'm coming into this rather late, but I'm a little irritated by the bashing the Smith Bagua book always gets on here. I would wager maybe one or two people on this forum have ever even read Smith's original Bagua book. It has been out of print for many years and is pretty expensive when you can find it on ebay or abe-books.
The current edition, by Smith and Pittman is a pale shadow of the original text. I don't know who made the decision to revise it that way or why, but you're all right. It sucks! The original book, however, the one that Smith actually wrote by himself, is actually one of the better books on Bagua that I have found.
I was at the book store today, and I found his Pa Kua book, the original, reprinted. I also found it on Amazon, plus the Hsing-I redone.