Despite the theoretical and intellectual (read as Mental or Thought Center) frame of this exploration of jealousy and coveting there is a very strong biological imperative for these impulses. I cannot here bring a dissertation level of completeness to my observations but my experience with domestic dogs, parrots and other social companion animals indicates that they all exhibit coveting and jealously that often exceeds humans and is only blunted by the fact that they do not have the intellectual ability to carry out some of their worst impulses. That said it is common experience that two dogs who love one master will often fight to the death over attention. This jealousy is imo is only tangentially related to immediate or even long term fundamental instinctive needs such as hunger but to secondary social group needs.
Following the above observation it could be surmised that there is a fundamental drive creating the emotions that produce covetousness. With this in mind we could look at the last of the 10 sayings as a repudiation of this natural element of biology and a replacement with a rule or better a practice that would if properly developed lead to a higher level of being.
Despite the theoretical and intellectual (read as Mental or Thought Center) frame of this exploration of jealousy and coveting there is a very strong biological imperative for these impulses. I cannot here bring a dissertation level of completeness to my observations but my experience with domestic dogs, parrots and other social companion animals indicates that they all exhibit coveting and jealously that often exceeds humans and is only blunted by the fact that they do not have the intellectual ability to carry out some of their worst impulses. That said it is common experience that two dogs who love one master will often fight to the death over attention. This jealousy is imo is only tangentially related to immediate or even long term fundamental instinctive needs such as hunger but to secondary social group needs.
Following the above observation it could be surmised that there is a fundamental drive creating the emotions that produce covetousness. With this in mind we could look at the last of the 10 sayings as a repudiation of this natural element of biology and a replacement with a rule or better a practice that would if properly developed lead to a higher level of being.