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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
Renunciation Serial: BZ-00956A Saturday Lecture Renunciation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Ego, Daily Life, Right Effort, Samsara, Emotions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 29 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00738 Lecture Samadhi, Big Mind, Happiness, Continuous Practice, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 05 1994 City Center
Perfection of Wisdom Serial: BZ-00232 Class 5 of 5 Chanting, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Impermanence, Intimacy, Nirvana, Perfect...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Apr 21 1994 5 Berkeley Zen Center
Perfection of Wisdom Serial: BZ-00230 Class 3 of 5 Perfect Wisdom, Six Realms, Nirvana, Right Effort, Lotus Sutra, Lay Practice, Heart...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Apr 07 1994 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Perfection of Wisdom Serial: BZ-00229 Class 2 of 5 Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Vimalakirti, Precepts, Right Effort,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 31 1994 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Perfection of Wisdom Serial: BZ-00228 Class 1 of 5 Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Birth-and-Death, Lotus Sutra,...	Hozan Alan Senauke, Kosei Laurie Senauke	Mar 24 1994 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra Serial: BZ-00557 Class 7 of 10 Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Hindrances, Five Ranks, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Emotions, Dragons...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 04 1994 7 Tassajara
Parinirvana Sutra and Suzuki Roshi’s Legacy Serial: BZ-00980B Lecture Nirvana Sutra, Buddha Nature, Precepts, Nirvana, Impermanence, Daily Life, Tassajara...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Feb 12 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Lotus Sutra Serial: BZ-00224 Class 4 of 4 Lotus Sutra, Chanting, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Composure, Six Realms, Priest,...	Maylie Scott	Feb 02 1994 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Lotus Sutra Serial: BZ-00221 Class 3 of 4 Lotus Sutra, Big Mind, Avalokitesvara, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Bowing, Buddha Mind,...	Maylie Scott	Jan 27 1994 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Gratitude for Deep Connection Gratitude, Big Mind, Bowing, Nirvana	Edward Espe Brown	Nov 21 1993
Maha Mangala Sutta Serial: BZ-00220 From the October 1993 newsletter: This year's study program moves from basic Buddhist images, to early Sutras, Mahayana, and Zen. The second class in this series... Daily Life, Happiness, Hindrances, Interview, Liberation, Nirvana	Reverend Piyasilo	Nov 18 1993 4 of 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukan Zazen-gi: Dust and Cataracts are the Flowers of Emptiness Serial: BZ-00654A Lecture Emotions, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Concentration, Posture, Soto Zen, Nirvana...	Gil Fronsdal	Jul 24 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism Serial: BZ-00263 Class 1 of 6 Four Noble Truths, Nirvana, Karma, Hindrances, Doubt	Ron Nestor	Mar 11 1993 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Buddha's Parinirvana; The Eight Admonitions Serial: BZ-00286A One-Day Sitting Parinirvana, Admonitions, Eight Awarenesses, Lay Practice, Concentration, Right...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 13 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
The First Noble Truth, The Three Kinds of Suffering Serial: BZ-00648B The Suffering of Impermanence, Saturday Lecture Impermanence, Four Noble Truths, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Impermanence, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 06 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #5 Serial: BZ-00647B Saturday Lecture BCR-5, First Principle, Duality, Hui-neng, Platform Sutra, Nirvana, Samsara, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 23 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Shakyamuni Buddha Serial: BZ-00645B Lecture Concentration, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, Posture, War	Ron Nestor	Dec 12 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Sutta Nippatta: Early Teaching of Nonattachment to View, Self; Attentiveness to Actual and Ideal Serial: BZ-00634B Lecture Demons, Liberation, Nirvana, Nirvana Sutra, Posture	Gil Fronsdal	Aug 08 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Serial: BZ-00709B Sesshin Day 2 Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Duality, Samsara, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Non-duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 25 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan’s Five Ranks: Basic Overview Serial: BZ-00607 Class 2 of 4 Tozan, Dongshan, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Emotions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 21 1992 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Transmission of Light Serial: BZ-00213 Class 2 of 5 Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Dharma Transmission, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 13 1992 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-00680B First Friday Zazen, Posture, Teacher-and-Student, Daily Life, Concentration, Nirvana	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 01 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Lotus Sutra; Forms Serial: BZ-00678A Lecture Big Mind, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Dragons, Hate, Lotus Sutra, Mahayana,...	Maylie Scott	Mar 21 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Giving and Taking, Empty Ground Manifests; No Future Serial: BZ-00677A Inaction of Action, Action in Inaction, Sesshin Day 1 Giving-and-Taking, Teacher-and-Student, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Daily Life, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 17 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
One Treasure Serial: BZ-00958A One-Day Sitting Teacher-and-Student, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Causation, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 14 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Early Zen: Lankavatara and Lotus Sutras Serial: BZ-00651 Class 2 of 6 Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, Nirvana, Karma, Eight Awarenesses, Heart Sutra...	Maylie Scott	Mar 12 1992 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Early Zen: Heart Sutra, Rise of Mahayana Serial: BZ-00650 Class 1 of 6 Perfect Wisdom, Mahayana, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Continuous Practice,...	Maylie Scott	Mar 05 1992 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism: Personal History Serial: BZ-00282 Class 1 of 5 Four Noble Truths, Lay Practice, Renunciation, Fasting, Dependent Origination,...	Fran Tribe	Jan 16 1992 1 Berkeley Zen Center
All We Have to Do is Wash Our Bowl Serial: BZ-00682A Saturday Lecture Big Mind, Conversation, Duality, Interview, Nirvana, Priest	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 04 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan's Five Ranks Serial: BZ-00729 Class Three, Class Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, Ego, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Monastic Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 17 1991 3 Tassajara
Book of Serenity: Case #91 Serial: BZ-00714A More of Dreams, Sesshin Day 2 SER-91, First Principle, Subject-and-Object, Dragons, Buddha Nature, Concentration,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 01 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #43 Serial: BZ-00970A Tozan's "Neither Hot Nor Cold", One-Day Sitting Tozan, BCR-43, Absolute-and-Relative, Five Ranks, Nirvana, Samsara	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 14 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
What is Sesshin? Serial: BZ-00967B Sesshin Day 4 Sesshin, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Happiness, Karma, Nirvana, Tassajara	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 29 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Parinirvana Serial: BZ-00689A Eight Aspects of an Enlightened Being, One-Day Sitting Parinirvana, Eight Aspects, Nirvana, Eight Aspects, Concentration, Duality, Subject-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Serial: BZ-01517B Mindfulness of Forms, Rohatsu Day 3 Dogen, Composure, Bowing, Duality, Samsara, Continuous Practice, Nirvana, Doubt, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Segaki Serial: BZ-00496A Saturday Lecture Sejiki, Six Realms, Liberation, Demons, Nirvana, Equanimity, Karma, Causation...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 27 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Avatamsaka Sutra Serial: BZ-00622 Class 1 of 5 Four Noble Truths, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Hui-neng, Funeral, Nirvana,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Oct 25 1990 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhisattva Practice: Giving, Vigor, Patience Serial: BZ-00512 Lecture Bodhisattva Way, Manjushri, Nirvana, Ordination, Patience, Precepts, Priest, Priest-...	Bob Poulsen	Jun 30 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Nirvana and Parinirvana Serial: BZ-00498A Saturday Lecture Parinirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Hate, Birth-and-Death, Four Noble Truths, Hindrances,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 10 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Vows, Four Noble Truths Serial: BZ-00500 Saturday Lecture Birth-and-Death, Chanting, Daily Life, Four Noble Truths, Happiness, Nirvana, Samsara...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 27 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Only Buddha and Buddha Lotus Sutra, Blue Cliff Record, Nirvana Sutra, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, Bowing,...	Dairyu Michael Wenger	Jul 15 1989 Berkeley Zen Center
Transcending Hindrances Through Compassion Subject-and-Object, Hindrances, Emptiness, Hate, Nirvana, Gratitude, Delusion...	Eijun Linda Cutts	May 06 1989
Chanting Serial: BZ-00372A Sesshin Day 2 Chanting, Chanting, Concentration, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Nirvana	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 19 1989 Berkeley Zen Center
Body, Breath, Mind Serial: BZ-01472 Final talk of the Fall Practice Period at Tassajara. Buddha Nature, Duality, Nirvana, Posture, Tassajara	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 18 1988 Tassajara
Unknown Title Concentration, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Samadhi	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 09 1988 Tassajara
Compassion Gratitude, Mahayana, Nirvana, Patience, Vinaya, War	Joanna Macy	Oct 15 1988 Berkeley Zen Center
Illumination Serial: BZ-00892B Sesshin Day 3 Ego, Duality, Non-discrimination, Daily Life, Darkness-and-Light, Light-and-Darkness...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 05 1988 Berkeley Zen Center
Luminous Mind Serial: BZ-00893B Sesshin Day 1 Silent Illumination, Posture, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 03 1988 Berkeley Zen Center
Trust Yourself to Yourself Serial: BZ-00891A Lecture, sesshin day 3 Gratitude, Posture, Daily Life, Conversation, Nirvana, Concentration, Tassajara, Hate...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Jun 17 1988 Berkeley Zen Center

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