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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 synonymous with 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
As Large as Life: Zen Koans for Everyday Practice; Mumonkan Case #6 Buddha Twirls a Flower Serial: BZ-01019A Class 2 of 4 Lotus Sutra, Transmission, Lineage, Intimacy, Karma, Nirvana Sutra, Conversation, Fox...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 01 2004 2 Berkeley Zen Center
As Large as Life: Zen Koans for Everyday Practice; Mumonkan Case #2 Paichang’s Fox Serial: BZ-01018A Class 1 of 4 Fox, Karma, Absolute-and-Relative, causation, Daily Life, Bell, Funeral, Culture,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 23 2004 1 Berkeley Zen Center
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
December 7th, 2003, Serial No. 03154 Nirvana, Buddha Mind, Practice Period	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 07 2003
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
The Heart Sutra Serial: BZ-00289 Class 2 of 4 Dependent Origination, Heart Sutra, Religion, Duality, Building, Nirvana, Emotions,...	Ron Nestor and Karen Sundheim	Oct 02 2003 2 Berkeley Zen Center
September 2003 talk, Serial No. 03133 Nirvana, Renunciation, Attachment	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Sep 2003
August 4th, 2003, Serial No. 03126 Emptiness, Avalokiteshvara, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 04 2003
Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Energy, Rapture, Tranquility Serial: BZ-00292 Class 4 of 5 Happiness, Gaining Mind, Karma, Concentration, Precepts, Posture, Lay, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 05 2003 4 Berkeley Zen Center
June 2003 talk, Serial No. 03111 Evil, Letting Go, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jun 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, Nirvana, Equanimity, Four Foundations of Mindfulness,...	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
Dolly’s Going On Serial: BZ-00170A One day sitting Peace, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Composure, Mindfulness, Conversation, War, Nirvana,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 27 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
15 Sutras from the Old Way Serial: BZ-00458 Clas 5 of 5 Karma, Silence, Evil, Ordination, Peace, Equanimity, Enemies, confusion, Nirvana, Vow...	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 confusion, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Evil, Nirvana, Cultivation, Anger,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 19 2002 2 Berkeley Zen Center
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 Farm
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 Farm
Desire and Love Serial: BZ-00146B Lecture Four Noble Truths, Mahayana, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Funeral, Samsara, Vow, Monastic...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	May 04 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
April 13th, 2002, Serial No. 00067 Blue Cliff Record, Nirvana, Posture, Practice Period, Demons		Apr 13 2002
April 9th, 2002, Serial No. 03058 Abhidharma, Nirvana, Buddhism	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 09 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
Four Noble Truths: Nirvana Serial: BZ-00443 Class 3 of 4 Monastic Practice, Nirvana, Mahayana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Six...	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, Offering, Discrimination, Culture, Birth-and-...	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, Attachment, Six Realms, Precepts, Renewal, Nirvana,...	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, Harmonizing, Attachment, Soto Zen, Nirvana...	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, Attachment...	Mary Mocine	Mar 14 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Genzo-e Transmission, Nirvana, Karma, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Fox, Passions, 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
January 22nd, 2002, Serial No. 03044 Samadhi, Parinirvana, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jan 22 2002
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 21st, 2001, Serial No. 03027 Samadhi, Buddha, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 21 2001
Bearing the Unbearable: Zazen is a Tool for Life Serial: BZ-00086B One Day sitting Buddha Nature, Funeral, Nirvana, Composure, Intuition, Oneness, Big Mind, Priest...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Aug 19 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Mirrors Buddha Nature, Intuition, Culture, Don't Know Mind, Karma, Buddha's...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Jun 09 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Noble Truths and Prison Food Right Effort, Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Concentration, Mindfulness,...	Ross Blum	Jun 02 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
June 2001 talk, Serial No. 03021 Renunciation, Nirvana, Intimacy	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jun 2001
March 19th, 2001, Serial No. 03010 Nirvana, Practice, Samadhi	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Mar 19 2001
Sunday Lecture Freedom, Bell, Beginners, Discrimination, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, confusion, Suzuki...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 04 2001 Green Gulch Farm
Hongzi (Zen Master) Silent Illumination, Instruction, Daily Life, Cultivation, confusion, Branching...	Taigen Dan Leighton	Feb 24 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Essence of Mind & the Five Hinderances Serial: BZ-00130A One-Day Sitting Hindrances, Hindrances, Daily Life, Doubt, Big Mind, Nirvana, Attachment, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 19 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Emptiness: Zen's True Path Buddha, confusion, Nirvana	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 15 2001
Never Disparaging Lotus Sutra, Bowing, Discrimination, Anger, Karma, Happiness, Evil, Nirvana,...	Rev. Shohaku Okumura	Jan 27 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen Illumination in Modern Life Cultivation, Silent Illumination, Nirvana, Oneness		Jan 06 2001
January 6th, 2001, Serial No. 00154 Cultivation, Silent Illumination, Nirvana, Oneness		Jan 06 2001
Solitude and Fulfillment in Zen Insight Soto Zen, Five Ranks, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Oneness, Suzuki Roshi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 03 2001

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