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Nirvana, in the Indian religions (Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), is the concept of an individual's passions being extinguished as the ultimate state of salvation, release, or liberation from suffering (duḥkha) and from the cycle of birth and rebirth (saṃsāra).

In Indian religions, nirvana is sometimes used as a synonym of moksha and mukti. All Indian religions assert it to be a state of perfect quietude, freedom, and highest happiness; liberation from attachment and worldly suffering; and the ending of samsara, the cycle of existence. However, non-Buddhist and Buddhist traditions describe these terms for liberation differently. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union of or the realization of the identity of Atman with Brahman, depending on the Hindu tradition. In Jainism, nirvana is also the soteriological goal, representing the release of a soul from karmic bondage and samsara. The Buddhist concept of nirvana is the abandonment of the 10 fetters, marking the end of rebirth by stilling the "fires" that keep the process of rebirth going.

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Title	Speaker	Date
Nirvana Serial: BZ-00132A Saturday Lecture Nirvana, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Zazen Mind, Six Realms, Monastic Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 08 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00181A Sesshin Day 1 Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Precepts, Liberation, Happiness, Right Effort,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 15 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
How Do We Deal With the Emotions and Mental States? Serial: BZ-00179 Saturday Lecture Emotions, Emotions, Equanimity, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Nirvana, War...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 25 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Passions Priest, Heart Sutra, Hate, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Vimalakirti, Suzuki Roshi...	Kosho McCall	Dec 01 2002 Tassajara
Dolly’s Going On Serial: BZ-00170A One day sitting Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Composure, Conversation, War, Nirvana, Separation	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 27 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
15 Sutras from the Old Way Serial: BZ-00458 Clas 5 of 5 Karma, Ordination, Equanimity, Nirvana	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Oct 10 2002 5 Berkeley Zen Center
15 Sutras from the Old Way: Those of Kesaputta from Anguttara Nikaya Serial: BZ-00455 Class 2 of 5 Practice Period, Nirvana, Cultivation, Precepts, Buddha Nature	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 19 2002 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Embrace Discomfort, Find Liberation Samadhi, Nirvana, Enlightenment	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 2002
Desire and Love Serial: BZ-00146B Lecture Four Noble Truths, Funeral, Happiness, Heart Sutra, Mahayana, Monastic Practice,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	May 04 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Noble Truths: Nirvana Serial: BZ-00443 Class 3 of 4 Monastic Practice, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Four Noble Truths, Heart Sutra,...	Mary Mocine	Mar 28 2002 3 Berkeley Zen Center
First Pure Mind Precept: Not Killing Serial: BZ-00142B Saturday Lecture Non-violence, Two Truths, Precepts, Birth-and-Death, Absolute-and-Relative, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Noble Truths: Causes of Suffering Serial: BZ-00469 Class 2 of 4 Karma, Birth-and-Death, Six Realms, Precepts, Nirvana, Separation, Emotions	Mary Mocine	Mar 21 2002 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Harmonizing Breath, Body, Mind and Feeling Serial: BZ-00142A Sesshin Day 3 Posture, Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Composure, Soto Zen, Nirvana, Duality, Equanimity...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 17 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Noble Truths: Dukka (Suffering) Serial: BZ-00468 Class 1 of 4 Four Noble Truths, Ego, Heart Sutra, Karmic Consequences, Nirvana, Karma, Separation...	Mary Mocine	Mar 14 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Genzo-e Nirvana, Monastic Practice, Ceremony, Transmission, Karma, Vinaya	Shohaku Okumura	Mar 09 2002 1
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-00139A One-Day Sitting Parinirvana, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Obstacles, Precepts, Liberation, Buddha Nature...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case #35 Serial: BZ-00093B Saturday Lecture MM-35, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Separation, Rinzai, Karma, Lay Practice, Samsara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 27 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Shurangama Samadhi Sutra Samadhi, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 21 2001 Green Gulch Farm
Bearing the Unbearable: Zazen is a Tool for Life Serial: BZ-00086B One Day sitting Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Composure, Funeral, Nirvana, Priest	Hozan Alan Senauke	Aug 19 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Eight Major Afflictions Serial: BZ-00084B Saturday Lecture Monkey Mind, Hindrances, Duality, Nirvana, Renunciation	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 28 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Ten Beneficial Dharmas Serial: BZ-00084A Saturday Lecture Karma, Doubt, Equanimity, Renunciation, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, Hui-neng	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 21 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Mirrors Buddha Nature, Don't Know Mind, Karma, Buddha's Birthday, Buddha Ancestors...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Jun 09 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Noble Truths and Prison Food Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Nirvana, Renunciation, Right Effort, Right Speech,...	Ross Blum	Jun 02 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Renunciation: Pathway to Compassionate Wisdom Renunciation, Wisdom, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jun 2001
Zen Practice: Embracing Non-Grasping Wisdom Nirvana, Samadhi, Emptiness	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Mar 19 2001
Hongzi (Zen Master) Branching Streams, Buddha Nature, Cultivation, Daily Life, Light-and-Darkness,...	Taigen Dan Leighton	Feb 24 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Essence of Mind & the Five Hinderances Serial: BZ-00130A One-Day Sitting Hindrances, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Doubt, Hindrances, Nirvana, Platform...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 19 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Emptiness: Zen's True Path Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 15 2001
Zen Interplay: Wisdom and Compassion Zazen, Precepts, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 12 2001
Never Disparaging Lotus Sutra, Bowing, Karma, Happiness, Nirvana, Separation	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 27 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Solitude and Fulfillment in Zen Insight Soto Zen, Five Ranks, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Suzuki Roshi, Samsara...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 03 2001
Birth and Death: Dogen’s Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-00486 Class 4 of 4 Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Hate, Samsara, Darkness-and-Light, Six...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 30 2000 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-00117 Workshop Nirvana, Transmission, Karma, Soto Zen, Dharma Transmission, Five Ranks, Politics...	Shohaku Okumura	Nov 04 2000 1 of 4 City Center
Birth and Death: Dogen’s Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-00489 Class 1 of 4 Big Mind, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Funeral, Nirvana, Samsara...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 02 2000 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Unity in Duality: Transforming Perception Samsara, Nirvana		Oct 25 2000
The Diamond Sutra: Commentary Serial: BZ-00916 Class 4 of 5 Four Noble Truths, Karma, Liberation, Nirvana, Obstacles	Red Pine Bill Porter	Oct 07 2000 4 Berkeley Zen Center
The Diamond Sutra: Commentary Serial: BZ-00920 Class 3 of 5 Karma, Liberation, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Renunciation, Skandhas	Red Pine Bill Porter	Sep 30 2000 3 Berkeley Zen Center
The Diamond Sutra: Commentary Serial: BZ-00917 Class 2 of 5 Karma, Nirvana, Nirvana Sutra, Impermanence, Sanctuary, Lotus Sutra	Red Pine Bill Porter	Sep 23 2000 2 Berkeley Zen Center
The Diamond Sutra: Commentarty Serial: BZ-00919 Class 1 of 5 Heart Sutra, Liberation, Mahayana, Nirvana, Renunciation, Skandhas	Red Pine Bill Porter	Sep 09 2000 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #2 Serial: BZ-00083A Nondiscriminating Mind within Discrimination, Sesshin Day 3 BCR-2, Dragons, Non-discrimination, Hsin Hsin Ming, Nirvana, Don't Know Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 04 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Codependent Chain of Origination: Why We Sit Serial: BZ-00082B Sesshin Day 2 Dependent Origination, Zazen, Dependent Origination, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 03 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00160A Polishing Tiles, Sesshin Day 5 Sandokai, Branching Streams, Emotions, Rinzai, Bodhidharma, Nirvana, Tassajara, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00159 Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Branching Streams, Daily...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Writings: Commentary on “Enlightenment Unfolds” Serial: BZ-00932 Class 4 of 4 Buddha Ancestors, Doubt, Emotions, Impermanence, Karma, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 09 2000 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Emptiness: The Middle Way Emptiness, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Mar 03 2000
Illusions Unveiled: Zen's Hidden Reality Nirvana, Emptiness, Samsara	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Mar 02 2000
Buddha's Parinirvana/His Last Teaching Serial: BZ-00204A The 8 Awarenesses of an Enlightened Being, Saturday Lecture Parinirvana, Eight Awarenesses, Enlightenment, Eight Awarenesses, Samadhi, Composure...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 19 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen Harmony Through Ferdinand's Path Serial: SF-00064 Sunday dharma talk. Realization, Practice Period, Nirvana, Hindrances, Doubt	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 05 1999
Beginners’ Sesshin: Review of Guidelines, Sitting for World Day of Peace, and Lecture Posture, Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, Nirvana, War, Bodhidharma, Chanting,...	Ross Blum	Oct 10 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Understanding Emptiness: Mind's True Nature Samsara, Nirvana		Oct 06 1999

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