1. "All is meaningless" indicates that purpose, intention, striving and ambition that defers today for tomorrow is mistaken. Instead the best one can achieve is to make the most of each alloted day and each alloted relationship or opportunity to do good. You can not take your accumulated food, goods, or cash equivalents with you after death. Neither can you do anything more lasting and useful than to make a difference in another person's life with a kind word or deed, or being part of an institution that works in that direction. This "in the moment" mindset echoes the "give us this day our daily bread" idea of a moderated or measured amount; not to conserve excess but do use what is at hand. Just so one's striving should be moderated and measured, enough for this day, not for all eternity.
2. The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism described the way that many adherents see themselves and their peers in material terms; that one's prominence in the world is a sign of one's blessing by God's hand (and absence of material accumulation, by implication, would indicate lack of blessing). Yet Ecclesiastes goes against this by declaring such chasing after the wind to be pointless, meaningless, not of lasting value or enduring significance.
3. Among the "seven deadly sins" is sloth, with is not so much a slowness to break a sweat in one's task as it is an aimless, distracted or dissipated output. Deadly means "dead to God's way" due to misdirection or falling from the mark (literal meaning of sin is 'missing the target'), not earthly mortality in simple terms. And so, when viewed through the lens of Ecclesiastes, "all is meaningless; chasing after wind," this idea of slothful action fits the picture of endlessly spinning one's wheels and not moving in any direction.
4. Buddhism teaches one to let go of desires and to seek a mindset of "non-striving," just being right here, right now; fully present and mindful of the glory and majesty of the living things one is part of. Perhaps this "non-striving" (the inverted admonition: Don't just do something, stand there) is consonant with Ecclesiastes since one should strive only one day at a time, not all one's waking hours until statutory retirement age and entitlements or pension kick in.
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