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Abandon wisdom and discard cleverness,
and people will benefit a hundredfold.
Abandon humanity and discard morality,
and people will rediscover love and duty.
Abandon skill and discard profit,
and there will be no thieves or robbers.
These three things relate to externals and are inadequate.
People need what they can depend on:
reveal simplicity; embrace the natural;
control selfishness; reduce desires.
Thoughts?
Sure are a lot of verbs in there. 
I likey! 
perhaps good advice, perhaps not… tough to say since i discarded wisdom
this is one of those time will tell thingies…
I hear you.
Me too. 
You discarded wisdom? How’d you do that?
easily… all you have to do is stop thinking and just do…
How do you stop thinking?
Don’t reduce desires by suppressing them. Accept them.
Sounds good to me - I kind of like my desires.
Can I act on all of them? Are they all equally worthy?
The primary purpose of accepting them is to understand yourself, everything else after that, as far as I am concerned anyways, is secondary.
side note: Dogmas/traditions that step in and urge you (from the cradle) to reduce your desires, or that put negative twist on them so that you yourself will suppress them are not concerned with your own best interest, but with something else (and I don’t mean Tao Te Ching here, specifically, but even great teachings can be manipulated to other ends).
I think I agree with you.