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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
Embracing Gratitude for Deep Connection Gratitude, Passions, Big Mind, Bowing, Nirvana	Edward 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... Nirvana, Religion, Daily Life, Happiness, Evil, Liberation, Silence, Interview,...	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 Anger, Instruction, Emotions, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Concentration,...	Gil Fronsdal	Jul 24 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism Serial: BZ-00263 Class 1 of 6 Four Noble Truths, Culture, Nirvana, Religion, Karma, Enthusiasm, Anger, Hindrances,...	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, Concentration, Right Effort, Eight...	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, Attachment, Impermanence, Emotions, Vow, Building,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 06 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #5 Serial: BZ-00647B Saturday Lecture BCR-5, First Principle, Duality, Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra, Nirvana, Samsara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 23 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Shakyamuni Buddha Serial: BZ-00645B Lecture Concentration, Nirvana, Culture, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Beginners, Posture,...	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 Mindfulness, Demons, Nirvana Sutra, Commitment, Liberation, Bell, Nirvana, 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 Transmission, Nirvana, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Nature, Manjushri, Buddha Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 13 1992 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-00680B First Friday Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Teacher-and-Student, Daily Life, Concentration, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 01 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Lotus Sutra; Forms Serial: BZ-00678A Lecture Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Big Mind,...	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, Renunciation, Religion, Lineage, Fasting, Dependent...	Fran Tribe	Jan 16 1992 1 Berkeley Zen Center
All We Have to Do is Wash Our Bowl Serial: BZ-00682A Saturday Lecture Bell, Interview, Instruction, Big Mind, Conversation, Duality, Enemies, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 04 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan's Five Ranks Serial: BZ-00729 Class Three, Class Ego, Pure Existence, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Absolute-and-Relative, Ordinary Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 17 1991 III Tassajara
Book of Serenity: Case #91 Serial: BZ-00714A More of Dreams, Sesshin Day 2 SER-91, First Principle, Dream World, Subject-and-Object, Dragons, Buddha Nature,...	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, Samsara, Nirvana, Enemies,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 14 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
What is Sesshin? Serial: BZ-00967B Sesshin Day 4 Sesshin, Pure Existence, Building, Peace, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Karma, Happiness...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 29 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
One-Day Sitting Serial: SF-01078 #shuso-talk Precepts, Vow, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Mahayana, Soto Zen,...	Pat Phelan	Mar 09 1991 Unknown
Parinirvana Serial: BZ-00689A Eight Aspects of an Enlightened Being, One-Day Sitting Parinirvana, Eight Aspects, Nirvana, Eight Aspects, Concentration, Duality, Greed,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Serial: BZ-01517B Mindfulness of Forms, Rohatsu Day 3 Mindfulness, Instruction, Offering, Dogen, Composure, Bowing, Duality, Samsara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Segaki Serial: BZ-00496A Saturday Lecture Seijiki, Anger, Greed, Six Realms, Liberation, Demons, Nirvana, Equanimity, Offering...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 27 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Avatamsaka Sutra Serial: BZ-00622 Class 1 of 5 Four Noble Truths, Offering, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Sixth Patriarch,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Oct 25 1990 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhisattva Practice: Giving, Vigor, Patience Serial: BZ-00512 Lecture Precepts, Bodhisattva Way, Patience, Priest, Evil, Ordination, Priest-and-Lay,...	Bob Poulsen	Jun 30 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Nirvana and Parinirvana Serial: BZ-00498A Saturday Lecture Parinirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Hate, Greed, Birth-and-Death, confusion, Four Noble...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 10 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Vows, Four Noble Truths Serial: BZ-00500 Saturday Lecture Vow, Nirvana, Four Noble Truths, Samsara, Daily Life, Two Truths, Birth-and-Death,...	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, Offering,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	May 06 1989
Chanting Serial: BZ-00372A Sesshin Day 2 Chanting, Chanting, Concentration, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Vow, Nirvana	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 19 1989 Berkeley Zen Center
December 18th, 1988, Serial No. 01472 Serial: BZ-01472 Final talk of the Fall Practice Period at Tassajara. Duality, Nirvana, Posture, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 18 1988 Tassajara
December 9th, 1988, Serial No. 01476, Side C Concentration, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Samadhi, Lineage	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 09 1988 Tassajara
Compassion Gratitude, Vinaya, Religion, Patience, Silence, Greed, Mahayana, Nirvana, War...	Joanna Macy	Oct 15 1988 Berkeley Zen Center
Illumination Serial: BZ-00892B Sesshin Day 3 Discrimination, Ego, Duality, Non-discrimination, Oneness, Daily Life, Darkness-and-...	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 Zen...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Jun 17 1988 Berkeley Zen Center
Life and Death Serial: BZ-00897A Lecture Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Fasting, Nirvana, Evil, Heart Sutra, Tassajara Zen...	Shosan Victoria Austin	May 07 1988 Berkeley Zen Center
December 9th, 1987, Serial No. 00308 Serial: BZ-00308 Rohatsu Day 2 Intuition, Fasting, American, Anger, Impermanence, Hindrances, Nirvana, Offering, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 09 1987
August 16th, 1987, Serial No. 00312 Serial: BZ-00312 Sesshin Day 2 Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Soto Zen, Lineage, Instruction, Peace	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 16 1987
Imperfect Paths to Spiritual Simplicity Gratitude, Religion, Doubt, Balance, Suzuki Roshi, Nirvana, Enemies, Attachment, Evil...	David Chadwick	Jul 11 1987
Genjokoan II Serial: BZ-00908A Sesshin Day 1 Genjokoan, Anger, Samsara, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Oneness, Passions, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 04 1987 Berkeley Zen Center
Koun Ejo; Komyozo Zammai Pt. I Serial: BZ-00888A Sesshin Day 1 Koun Ejô, Discrimination, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Demons, Don't Know Mind, Sangha,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 28 1987 Berkeley Zen Center
Practice Leads Us and We Lead Practice Serial: BZ-00886A Saturday Lecture Practice, Chanting, Ego, Concentration, Hate, Bowing, Evil, Nirvana, Vow, Offering...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 07 1987 Berkeley Zen Center
March 4th, 1987, Serial No. 00334 Serial: BZ-00334 Sesshin Day 5 Concentration, Doubt, Posture, Equanimity, Mindfulness, Silent Illumination, Nirvana...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 04 1987
February 3rd, 1987, Serial No. 00372 Emotions, Birth-and-Death, Anger, Delusion, Consciousness, Commitment, Samadhi,...	Katagiri Roshi	Feb 03 1987

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