The World’s Treasure
Translation by Tree Buffalo
Nature is the source of all things.
It is the good person’s protection, and that which protects the not-good person.
Beautiful words may be bought, and honorable acts may be given to a person.
But as for the not-good person, why discard them?
This is why anointing a ruler and installing officials, even when presented with precious gems and preceded by a team of horses, is not as good as remaining still to offer the way of nature.
Ancient is the reason to honor nature this way.
Has it not been said, “those who seek and receive the guilty shall be set free?”
It is how to become the world’s treasure.
Read some of the first English translations of Chapter 62 here.
