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Nirvana ( neer-VAH-nə, -⁠VAN-ə, nur-; Sanskrit: निर्वाण nirvāṇa [nɪrʋaːɳɐ]; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lamp) is a concept in the Indian religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism that refers to the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of salvational release and the liberation from duḥkha ('suffering') and saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and rebirth.

In Indian religions, nirvana is synonymous with moksha and mukti. All Indian religions assert it to be a state of perfect quietude, freedom, highest happiness as well as the liberation from attachment and worldly suffering and the ending of samsara, the round 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. In Buddhism, nirvana refers to 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
Heart Sutra Serial: BZ-01291D Rohatsu Day 1 Heart Sutra, Form-and-Emptiness, Dependent Origination, Impermanence, Samadhi,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 29 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03549 Dining Room Class Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Zazen, Practice Period...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 03 2004 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03554 Dining Room Class 3 Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Nirvana, Bell, Renunciation, Samsara, Balance,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 20 2004 Tassajara
October 16th, 2004, Serial No. 01284 Karmic Consequences, Nirvana, Impermanence, Karma, Subject-and-Object,...		Oct 16 2004
Heaven and Hell and Nirvana Serial: BZ-01566 Saturday Lecture Nirvana, Six Realms, Karmic Consequences, Nirvana, Impermanence, Karma,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 16 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
October 14th, 2004, Serial No. 00565 Daily Life, Lay, Patience, Enemies, Lineage, Passions, Discrimination, Evil, Nirvana...		Oct 14 2004
September 26th, 2004, Serial No. 01281 Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Precious Mirror, Nirvana Sutra, Hindrances, Heart...		Sep 26 2004
August 21st, 2004, Serial No. 01241 Mahayana, Monkey Mind, Nirvana, Obstacles, Subject-and-Object, Impermanence, Heart...		Aug 21 2004
Dining Room Lecture Equanimity, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Suzuki Roshi, Diversity, Nirvana, Enemies,...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Aug 18 2004 Tassajara
Flop Dog Serial: SF-01103 One-day sitting lecture: not accomplishing anything. Suzuki Roshi, Study Period, Zazen, resistance, Nirvana, uchiyama, Letting Go, Posture...	Daigan Lueck	Jul 17 2004 Green Gulch
Composure: The Shuso Hossen Ceremony Serial: BZ-01271 Where the Response Comes From, Sesshin Day 5 Composure, Shuso Ceremony, Composure, Intimacy, Nirvana, Practice Period, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 20 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
March 1st, 2004, Serial No. 01019, Side A Lotus Sutra, Transmission, Lineage, Intimacy, Karma, Nirvana Sutra, Conversation, Fox...		Mar 01 2004
February 23rd, 2004, Serial No. 01018, Side A Fox, Karma, Absolute-and-Relative, causation, Daily Life, Bell, Funeral, Culture,...		Feb 23 2004
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-01248 Sesshin Day 1 Parinirvana, Nirvana, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Buddha's Birthday,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 14 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Just Being Alive Is Enough Serial: SF-01094 The season. Vows. New Year's Resolution Suzuki Roshi, Current Events, Vow, stubbornness, Faith, Continuous Practice, Politics...	Daigan Lueck	Dec 28 2003 Green Gulch
Eihei Shingi: The Kanin Serial: BZ-01373 Rohatsu Day 4 Eihei Shingi, Buddha's Birthday, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, New Year, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
The Heart Sutra Serial: BZ-00287B Class 4 of 4 Nirvana, confusion, Four Noble Truths, Hindrances, Mahayana, Samsara, Heart Sutra,...	Ron Nestor and Karen Sundheim	Oct 16 2003 4 Berkeley Zen Center
October 2nd, 2003, Serial No. 00289 Dependent Origination, Heart Sutra, Religion, Duality, Building, Nirvana, Emotions,...		Oct 02 2003
June 5th, 2003, Serial No. 00292 Happiness, Gaining Mind, Karma, Concentration, Precepts, Posture, Lay, Nirvana,...		Jun 05 2003
True Concentration Serial: BZ-01524A From Suzuki-rôshi Book, Saturday Lecture Concentration, Suzuki Roshi, Duality, Concentration, Non-duality, Gaining Mind, War,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 12 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Nirvana Serial: BZ-00132A Saturday Lecture Nirvana, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Attachment, Zazen Mind, Six Realms, Passions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 08 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00181A Sesshin Day 1 Nirvana, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Precepts, Liberation, Happiness,...	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, Anger, Peace, resistance, Nirvana, Equanimity, Four Foundations,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 25 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Passions Passions, Priest, Evil, Enemies, Heart Sutra, Hate, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana,...	Kosho McCall	Dec 01 2002 Tassajara
October 27th, 2002, Serial No. 00170, Side A Aspects of Practice, Precious Mirror, Composure, Mindfulness, Conversation, War,...		Oct 27 2002
October 10th, 2002, Serial No. 00458 Karma, Silence, Evil, Ordination, Peace, Equanimity, Enemies, confusion, Nirvana, Vow...		Oct 10 2002
September 19th, 2002, Serial No. 00455 confusion, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Evil, Nirvana, Cultivation, Anger,...		Sep 19 2002
Seven Principles for Preventing Decline Serial: SF-00935 Dhammapada, 9/11, we are not well, cause of great peace, Huey Johnson, the soldiers will have their way, dogs of war, Dalai Lama, pinpoint causes, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel',... Nirvana Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Religion, Interdependence, Renunciation,...	Fu Schroeder	Sep 15 2002 Green Gulch
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-01090 What enlightenment meant to the ancestors might be different than what it means to us, it's important to come to everyday events with a new outlook or view, Daitaka, we can... Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death, true dharma, Transmission, Buddha Mind, Demons,...	Daigan Lueck	Jun 04 2002 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture Serial: SF-01018 Lotus Sutra (Heart Sutra), seals our mind with Buddha's mind, basics of the middle way are covered (in the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings), power of joy and compassion, devotion... Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Nirvana, Four Noble...	Fu Schroeder	May 11 2002 Green Gulch
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-01086 Tuesday: Breaking through the conceptual veil, Kasyapa, nothing to be transmitted, investigate the conventional world to the limit, Kukkutapada Transmission, realization, Sixth Patriarch, Book of Serenity, Ceremony, Monastic...	Daigan Lueck	May 07 2002 Green Gulch
May 4th, 2002, Serial No. 00146, Side B Four Noble Truths, Mahayana, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Funeral, Samsara, Bodhisattva Vow...		May 04 2002
April 13th, 2002, Serial No. 00067 Blue Cliff Record, Nirvana, Posture, Practice Period, Demons		Apr 13 2002
Two Approaches to God: Prophet and Mystic Serial: NC-01071 Community Retreat Spring 2002 OSB Cam, History of religion, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, Bonaventure, Apophatic, Prophetic,...	Sr. Donald Corcoran	Apr 2002 2 of 5 (#4 not recorded) New Camaldoli Hermitage
March 28th, 2002, Serial No. 00443 Nirvana, Mahayana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Six Realms,...		Mar 28 2002
First Pure Mind Precept: Not Killing Serial: BZ-00142B Saturday Lecture Non-violence, Two Truths, Precepts, Offering, Discrimination, Culture, Birth-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
March 21st, 2002, Serial No. 00469 Karma, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Six Realms, Precepts, Renewal, Nirvana,...		Mar 21 2002
Harmonizing Breath, Body, Mind and Feeling Serial: BZ-00142A Sesshin Day 3 Posture, Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Composure, Harmonizing, Attachment, Soto Zen, Nirvana...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 17 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
March 14th, 2002, Serial No. 00468 Four Noble Truths, Ego, Heart Sutra, Karmic Consequences, Nirvana, Karma, Attachment...		Mar 14 2002
Sunday Lecture Blue Cliff Record, realization, Delusion, Nirvana, Right Speech, true dharma,...	Daigan Lueck	Mar 10 2002 Green Gulch
Genzo-e true dharma, Transmission, Nirvana, Karma, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Fox, Passions...	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
Arbor Day Serial: SF-01071 Sunday Lecture Commitment, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Non-violence, Nirvana, Practice Period,...	Wendy Johnson	Feb 10 2002 Green Gulch
January 19th, 2002, Serial No. 01112 Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Emptiness, Cultivation, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Freedom,...	Jeffrey Schneider	Jan 19 2002 City Center
Mumonkan: Case #35 Serial: BZ-00093B Saturday Lecture MM-35, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Separation, Rinzai, Karma, Lay, Samsara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 27 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
August 19th, 2001, Serial No. 00086, Side B Buddha Nature, Funeral, Nirvana, Composure, training, Aspects of Practice, Intuition...		Aug 19 2001
Eight Major Afflictions Serial: BZ-00084B Saturday Lecture Monkey Mind, Hindrances, confusion, Renunciation, Greed, Evil, Nirvana, Duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 28 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Ten Beneficial Dharmas Serial: BZ-00084A Saturday Lecture Anger, Karma, Doubt, Greed, Equanimity, Renunciation, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, Sixth...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 21 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
June 9th, 2001, Serial No. 00103, Side B Buddha Nature, Intuition, Culture, Don't Know Mind, Karma, Buddha's...		Jun 09 2001
June 2nd, 2001, Serial No. 00102, Side B Right Effort, Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Concentration, Mindfulness,...		Jun 02 2001

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