The Tao of Zen is a nonfiction book by Canadian religious scholar Ray Grigg. In his reading of Zen, Grigg argues that to attain enlightenment, all that one has to do is "act naturally and spontaneously in accordance with the Tao." The book, which in the early 21st century has been called "influential...but not uncontested", He writes:<blockquote>When people are naturally themselves, when they are unfashioned by any preconception about what they ought or ought not to be, and who they might or might not be, they inadvertently become one with the wholeness of things. This does not make them “perfect” according to some narrow system of idealistic judgment. But it does give them an integrity of being that intuitively and spontaneously follows a wisdom that is greater than themselves.
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- Grigg, Ray (1994) The Tao of Zen, Tuttle Publishing.