Ray Grigg

Author of The Tao of Zen

About the Author

Ray Grigg has been a teacher of English literary history, fine arts, cultural history, and world religions in the British Columbia senior secondary school system for over twenty years. He holds two degrees from the University of British Columbia and has traveled extensively in over forty countries. show more He now lives with his wife on Quadra Island, British Columbia. show less

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Works by Ray Grigg

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The Tao of Zen (1994) 156 copies, 1 review

The Tao of Relationships: A Balancing of Man and Woman (1988) 108 copies

The Tao of Being: A Think and Do Workbook (1989) 30 copies

The New Lao Tzu: A Contemporary Tao Te Ching (1995) 23 copies, 1 review

The Tao of Being: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age (1990) 9 copies

The Tao of Sailing (1990) 9 copies

Zen Brushpoems (1994) 9 copies

De tao van relaties (1999) 5 copies

The Sage's Way: Teachings and Commentaries (2004) 4 copies

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Birthdate: 1938
Gender: male
Education: University of British Columbia, Canada
Occupations: teacher, English literary history
Taoist scholar
Places of residence: Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada
Associated Place (for map): British Columbia, Canada

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Tao of Zen (Tuttle Library Of Enlightenment) by Ray Grigg

The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism -- an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. This is a reference that should be ready by everyone interested in Taoism and Zen.

Mar 20, 2019

CraigLeger 5 reviews

The New Lao Tzu: A Contemporary Tao Te Ching by Ray Grigg

I have many different translations of the Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing). Some are more useful for scholarly research; others work better as literary works. I like the translation by Ray Grigg because of the poetic style that Grigg uses. It also has several great essays on the history and authorship of the text, on the Ma-wang-tui archaeological discoveries, and on the history of Western translations and interpretations of the text:

Page 110 The Translation Problem
Page 123 The Question of show more Authorship
Page 132 The Mawangtui Texts
Page 143 The Contemporary Interpretation

These four essays in themselves are worth the price of the book.

Here are some comments and an excerpt from the book that I posted in 2004:
http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Dao/messages/boards/thread/930739 show less

Aug 6, 2012 (Edited)