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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 Class Birth-and-Death, Anger, Karma, Evil, Nirvana, Emotions, Renunciation, Attachment,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 22 2014 2
Heart Sutra Class Daily Life, Heart Sutra, Duality, Concentration, Nirvana, Samsara, Ego, Interview,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 15 2014 1
Dogen's Shoji: Birth and Death Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Eight Aspects, Daily Life, Monastic Practice, Funeral,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 22 2014
Suffering and Faith Anger, Death-and-Dying, Four Noble Truths, Practice Position, Duality, Don't...	Karen Sundheim	Feb 15 2014
Living By Vow Four Noble Truths, Vow, Karma, Samsara, Soto Zen, Chanting, Nirvana, Daily Life,...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 25 2014
Lotus Sutra and Bodhisattva Practice Lotus Sutra, Practice Period, Precepts, Buddha Nature, Liberation, Mahayana,...	Mary Mocine	Sep 21 2013
Zazen Serial: BZ-02313 Review of Zazen, Sesshin Effort, Zazen, Sesshin, Nirvana, Mindfulness, Practice Period, resistance, Mahayana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 19 2013 Berkeley Zen Center
Eight Awakenings Nirvana, Mindfulness, Practice Period, resistance, Mahayana, Passions, Concentration...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jun 08 2013
Six Qualities from the Abhidhamma Serial: BZ-02289 Tranquility, Agility, Pliancy, Workableness, Proficiency, Saturday Lecture No-Self, Abhidharma, Zazen, Daily Life, Composure, Nirvana, Hindrances, Attachment,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 02 2013 Berkeley Zen Center
Sandokai Lecture Six Serial: BZ-02284 Couplet 12, Rohatsu Day 7 Diversity, Absolute-and-Relative, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Oneness, Daily Life...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi Serial: BZ-02235 The Backward Step, One-Day Sitting Samadhi, Non-thinking, Dragons, Dharma Transmission, Lotus Sutra, Intuition, Lineage...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 17 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Nirvana-The Death of the Ego Serial: BZ-02230 Buddha's Parinirvana, Sesshin Day 1 Suzuki Roshi, Teacher-and-Student, Fearlessness, Separation, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 18 2012 Part 1 of 2 Berkeley Zen Center
No Gaining Mind Amidst Undulations Serial: BZ-02228 Big Mind and Shikantaza, Saturday Lecture Nirvana, Time, Letting Go, Teacher-and-Student, Gaining Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 04 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
The Ways of Change Confession-and-Repentance, Impermanence, Bodhisattva Precepts, Buddha Ancestors,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 14 2012
Giving and Receiving Impermanence, Soto Zen, Big Mind, Evil, Practice Period, Ego, Bell, Nirvana	Laurie Senauke	Oct 01 2011
Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-02202 Part 3 of 4, study sesshin Birth-and-Death, Karma, Samsara, Nirvana, confusion, Fasting, Daily Life,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 04 2011 3
Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-02203 Part 4 of 4, study sesshin Birth-and-Death, Bell, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, confusion, Buddha Mind, Nirvana,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 04 2011 4
Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-02200 Part 1 of 4, study sesshin Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Lay, Bowing, Silence, Transmission...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 03 2011 1
Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-02201 Part 2 of 4, study sesshin Birth-and-Death, Blue Cliff Record, Samsara, Nirvana, Impermanence, Liberation,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 03 2011 2
Jhanas and Shikantaza Arhats Serial: BZ-02189 Shuso ceremony, Sesshin Day 5 Intuition, Shikantaza, Consciousness, Intuition, Karma, Repentance, Birth-and-Death,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 19 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-02157 Ordinary Life is the Way, Sesshin Day 1, part 1 of 4 Sense of separation, Neither good nor bad Nirvana, Separation, Greed, Birth-and-Death, Interview, Culture, Emotions, Karma, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 19 2011 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Five Ranks Class Discrimination, Nirvana Sutra, Daily Life, Pure Existence, Nirvana, Intuition, Big...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 30 2010 8
We Must Eat Time Four Foundations, Dependent Origination, Mindfulness, Heart Sutra, Happiness, Nirvana...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jul 03 2010
Berkeley Zendo and Money Serial: BZ-02094 Mandalas, Saturday Lecture Sojun's early practice, Sangha, Supporting Practice Samsara, Sangha, Samsara, Building, Enemies, Nirvana, Practice Position, Culture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 17 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Vashubandu Class Serial: BZ-02082 Class 1 of 4 Anger, Doubt, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Religion, Subject-and-Object, Nirvana, Daily Life...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 14 2010 1
Shakyamuni Buddha's Parinirvana true dharma, Funeral, Practice Period, Instruction, Soto Zen, Nirvana, Separation,...	Ron Nestor	Feb 13 2010
Commemorating Buddha's Enlightenment Serial: BZ-02074 Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 7 Abhidharma, Genjokoan, Vasubandhu, Ego, Birth-and-Death, Five Ranks, Anger, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 12 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: BZ-02043 Cultivating the Empty Field, Sesshin Day 2 Suzuki Roshi, Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Birth-and-Death, Religion, American...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhisattva Vows Vow, Liberation, Evil, Precepts, Passions, Buddha Nature, Samsara, Oneness, Bell,...	Robert Rosenbaum	Mar 14 2009
Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly Dreams Serial: BZ-02013 Part 1 of 2, teaching retreat Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, resistance, Transmission, Evil...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 24 2009 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra: Irritation with Sesshin, helping vs. criticizing: Serial No. 01078 Serial: BZ-01078 Rohatsu Day 2, Side B Nirvana Sutra, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Don...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng: Irritation with Sesshin, helping vs. criticizing Serial: BZ-01183 Rohatsu Day 2 Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Nature, Don...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng Serial: BZ-02005 Irritation during sesshin/helping versus Criticizing, Rohatsu Day 2 Hui Neng, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana Sutra, Dharma...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen Mind Beginngers Mind: Transiency; Serial No. 01165 Nirvana, Composure, Impermanence, Nirvana Sutra, Samsara, Priest, Teacher-and-Student...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 18 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Dizang's Weakness: Case 20, Book of Serenity; Serial No. 01162 Serial: BZ-01162 Saturday talk Koan, Dizang, SER-20, Intimacy, Gratitude, Teacher-and-Student, Heart Sutra, Nirvana...	Karen Sundheim	Oct 04 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-Arising Serial: BZ-01155A Pratitya Samutpada, Teaching Retreat Anger, Greed, Karma, Renunciation, Ego, Hindrances, Mindfulness, Emotions, Skandas,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 31 2008 Part 1 of 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Reflections on Sutta Nipata Story "The Ploughing" Serial: BZ-01148 Buddha encounters rich farmer and discusses the Buddha field, One-Day Sitting Buddha, Lay, Vinaya, American, Ego, Repentance, Intuition, Nirvana, Mindfulness, Vow...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 19 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Changing Your Karma Serial: BZ-01136 from "Not Always So" by Suzuki-roshi, Saturday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Karma, Karma, Nirvana Sutra, Practice Period, Offering, Meal Serving,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 31 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
May 17th, 2008, Serial No. 01133 Nirvana Sutra, Bodhisattva Way, Bodhisattva Precepts, Bodhisattva Ceremony,...		May 17 2008
February 17th, 2008, Serial No. 01115 Birth-and-Death, Blue Cliff Record, Buddha Mind, Impermanence, Funeral, Gratitude,...		Feb 17 2008
February 16th, 2008, Serial No. 01114 Happiness, Evil, Doubt, Liberation, Lay, Nirvana, Teacher-and-Student, Observe,...		Feb 16 2008
January 5th, 2008, Serial No. 01107 Emotions, Nirvana Sutra, Impermanence, Hindrances, Nirvana, Mindfulness, Liberation,...		Jan 05 2008
December 5th, 2007, Serial No. 01102, Side B Samadhi, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Hindrances, Evil, Nirvana, Hate, Building, War...		Dec 05 2007
July 17th, 2007, Serial No. 01276 Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Nirvana, Lay Practice, Soto Zen, Buddha Nature,...		Jul 17 2007
July 14th, 2007, Serial No. 00985 Four Noble Truths, Liberation, War, Impermanence, confusion, Nirvana		Jul 14 2007
June 7th, 2007, Serial No. 01056, Side A Discrimination, Doubt, Buddha Mind, Ego, Nirvana Sutra, Priest, Eight Aspects, Pure...		Jun 07 2007
February 24th, 2007, Serial No. 01422 Bodhisattva Way, Avalokiteshvara, War, Karma, Nirvana, American, Emotions, Dragons,...		Feb 24 2007
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-01419 Sesshin Day 1 Parinirvana, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Greed, Mahayana, Four Noble Truths, Doubt,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 17 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Eight Aspects of Practice Serial: BZ-01418 Commentary by Deshimaru from "Ring of the Way", Saturday Lecture Eight Aspects, Dogen, Deshimaru, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Karmic Consequences, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 10 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
November 30th, 2006, Serial No. 01404 Buddha Nature, Composure, Daily Life, Dependent Origination, Nirvana, Concentration,...		Nov 30 2006

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