Qoheleth Haiku 3:11

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¹¹He has made everything suitable for its time;

moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds,

yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

 

Sense of forever

Transcendence of time and space

Indicates the More

 

Within and beyond

Creation and creator

Have a connection

 

Then intangible

A mystic relationship

With the tangible

 

Descartes dualism

Advaita Vedanta*

Are both right in part

 

Locked in time and space

We somehow sense the Beyond

Present in our lives

 

*A school of Hindu philosophy, literally means “non-duality”

©2012, Qoheleth



Qoheleth Haiku 3:9 & 10

Amy Doeun

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⁹What gain have the workers from their toil?

¹⁰I have seen the business that God has given

to everyone to be busy with.

Pessimistic one

Sees the emptiness of life

Means a living death

Realistic one

Sees the potential of life

A meaningful death

Labor’s busyness

It is the business of life

Leave the world better

We all need to work

It is the design of God

Continue his work

What gain do we have

A matter of perspective

It’s all or nothing

Amy Doeun

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©2013, Qoheleth



Qoheleth Haiku: 3:8

⁸a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace.

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Object and subject

Of love and peace war and hate

Explains the timing

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Expressing value

Love is a choice and action

Emotions follow

Devaluation

Treating something as worthless

Hate’s connotation

We may hate an act

But we must not hate person

All have God’s value

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Can we have just war

It is an oxymoron
When is murder just

It is time for war

If evil should threaten good

Who defines evil

©2013, Qoheleth

Every Religion*

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Pure and simple at the core

All religions play the whore

To culture and to politics

Each upon its natural sod

Someone there encountered God

Our knowing cannot contradict

Each emerged with pure intent

But each lost its own precedent

To culture and to politics

Clothed itself in culture's garb

Religion soon produced a barb

Its own truth to contradict

Every religion took the face

Identifying with its place

By which its true devotes picks

The power brokers quickly found

The opiate with which they bound

The masses with their cunning tricks

In the community and state

Religion has resigned its fate

To what politicos inflict

Crusted in this garbage now

Religion finds that it must bow

To culture and to politics

If we would escape their prod

We must reencounter God

Or we are damned as they predict

*Every positive religion

Has a spiritual core

Dressed in cultural garb and

Crusted with political garbage.

©2013, Qoheleth



Qoheleth Haiku, 3:7

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⁷a time to tear,

and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence,

and a time to speak;

 

Why would one tear cloth

Something takes priority

More valued than cloth 



 

Expressing anger

One is in need of control

One might rip clothing

 

When anger subsides

One finds he has torn his shirt

It is time to sew

 

Silence is golden

Sometimes words create actions

Which words can’t control

 

Words aptly chosen

Communicate human thought

This a gift from God

 

©2012, Qoheleth

Qoheleth Haiku 3:6

 

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⁶a time to seek,

 and a time to lose;

a time to keep,

and a time to throw away; 

 

Seek and you will find

What you can find you can lose

Calls for vigilance  

 

We prize possessions

When drowning throw all away

But life preserver 

 

We lose by default

We throw things away by choice

Still our hand’s empty 

 

We seek when in need

We lose when we’re neglectful

We remain in need 

 

Seeking and loosing

Keeping and throwing away

Each in its season 

 

What we cannot find

We could never throw away

We could never lose

 

 

©2013, Qoheleth