Ecclesiastes 5:17 Meaning All His Days He Also Eats

Avijjā: Ignorance Avijjā is the not-knowing that sits under the whole chain. The dark he eats in stays dark at noon, because the light that is missing is any sense of what the money was for. A man can have a lamp on the table, bread in his hand, and no idea why he is at that table at all.

Taṇhā: Craving Taṇhā is the thirst that reaches for the next thing. He never arrives at an evening where the sum is finally enough, so each day's gain quietly sets the next day's figure. Thirst is ended by drinking, and he is the man sitting beside a full jar he is saving.

Macchariya: Stinginess Macchariya is the grip that will not let a thing pass to anyone else. Eating in darkness is what a man does when he wants no guest at the table and no witness to the portions. The door he shuts to keep his goods in also keeps everyone out, and the wealth he hoarded to his own hurt has bought him a room with nobody in it.

Dosa: Anger Dosa is the mind shoving away what it is handed. His wrath rarely finds an enemy worth the name; it goes to the slow servant, the price that moved, the shipment that spoiled. The sickness arrives alongside it because a body keeps the bill for a mind held at a boil.

Dukkha: Suffering Dukkha is the unsatisfactoriness running through anything built to be held. "All his days" allows no season off: the frustration, the sickness, and the wrath come as one condition showing itself three ways. None of it is punishment sent from outside; a life arranged around keeping produces this on its own.