Buddhism, Marxism, and Negating Self-centeredness β Preliminary Remarks on the Philosophy of Neville Wijeyekoon
summary β In 1943, S.N.B. (Neville) Wijeyekoon published a book under the pseudonym Leuke aiming to compare Buddhism and Marxism. It starts out doing so indeed, but the second half of the book presents his own philosophy focused on achieving mental harmony by negating self-centeredness through βmerging oneβs self in social welfareβ. Wijeyekoonβs wrote two more books, and in one of those he further developed aspects of this idea, while eliminating the overt Buddhist and Marxist influence. This long blog post summarizes and comments on two of Wijeyekoonβs books (namely, his first and third). I do not have access to...