Nirvana Talks

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 Indian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of soteriological 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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Buddha's Birthday

Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Offering, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Nirvana,...
Apr 07 1996
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-03572

Includes Q&A

Blue Cliff Record, Evil, Absolute-and-Relative, Religion, Don't Know Mind,...
Mar 17 1996
Green Gulch

Prajna Paramita Class

Emptiness, Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Ego, Faith, realization, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana...
Feb 27 1996
Unknown

Women in Buddhism Class

Nirvana, Religion, New Year, Conversation, Lay, causation, Freedom, Intimacy, Demons...
Nov 27 1995
Unknown

Women in Buddhism Class

Emptiness, Balance, Liberation, Nirvana, Lay, Heart Sutra, Religion, Mahayana, Birth-...
Nov 06 1995
Unknown

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-03095

Sunday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Offering, Ceremony, Renewal, Chanting, Echo, Vows, Bowing,...
Apr 09 1995
Green Gulch

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-03249

Sunday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Offering,...
Apr 10 1994
Green Gulch

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Bodhisattva Way, Bowing, Avalokiteshvara, Lotus Sutra, Soto Zen, Duality...
May 08 1993
City Center

Sunday Lecture

Anger, Nirvana, Emotions, Cultivation, Posture, Hindrances, Greed, Forgiveness,...
Feb 14 1993
Green Gulch

Saturday Lecture

Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Samsara, zen meditation, Posture, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana...
Nov 21 1992
City Center

Stupas

Serial: SF-03956

Stupa Slide Show - Sunday Lecture

Offering, Ceremony, Posture, Lay, Priest, Mill Valley, Dharma Transmission, Bowing,...
Nov 13 1991
Green Gulch

One-Day Sitting

Serial: SF-01078

#shuso-talk

Precepts, Vows, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Vow, Suzuki Roshi, Attachment,...
Mar 09 1991
Unknown

Dzögchen Teachings

Serial: SF-02719B

Commercially produced cassette

Transmission, New Year, Non-duality, Samsara, Nirvana, Karma, Freedom
Oct 09 1989
San Jose

Dzögchen Teachings

Serial: SF-02717

Commercially produced cassette

Gratitude, Nirvana, Peace, Offering, Religion, realization, Mandala, Non-violence,...
Oct 09 1989
San Jose

1989.05.06-serial.00149

Subject-and-Object, Hindrances, Emptiness, Hate, Nirvana, Gratitude, Offering,...
May 06 1989

Lion's Roar

Serial: SF-01907A

Intro

Liberation, Lineage, realization, Vinaya, Intuition, Nirvana, Evil, Instruction, Lay...
Dec 26 1988
SFZC

December 10th, 1988, Serial No. 01056

Buddha Nature, Nirvana Sutra, Concentration, Intimacy, Posture, Fundraising, Faith,...
Dec 10 1988
SFZC

Yontenzot

Samsara, confusion, Karma, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Don't Know Mind, Emotions,...
May 01 1988
SFZC

Yontenzot

Serial: SF-01832

"Chhoje Tulku"

realization, Beginners, Nirvana Sutra, Emotions, Bodhisattva Vow, Religion, Obstacles...
Apr 24 1988
SFZC

Sunday Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Daily Life, Oneness, resistance, Nirvana, Tassajara,...
Sep 27 1987
Green Gulch

1987.07.11-serial.00005

Gratitude, Religion, Doubt, Balance, Suzuki Roshi, Nirvana, Enemies, Attachment, Evil...
Jul 11 1987

The Bodhisattva Archetype

Serial: SF-00002

Sunday Lecture

Manjushri, Nirvana, Vows, Non-duality, Perfect Wisdom, training, Daily Life, Passions...
Aug 03 1986
Green Gulch Farm

The Self

Ego, realization, Transmission, Echo, Sangha, Nirvana, Delusion, Zazen, Doubt,...
May 17 1980
City Center

March 2nd, 1980, Serial No. 01840

Balance, Religion, Equanimity, Priest, Ordinary Mind, Nirvana, Liberation, Doubt,...
Mar 02 1980
SFZC

January 27th, 1980, Serial No. 01857

Subject-and-Object, Observe, Balance, confusion, training, Religion, Intuition,...
Jan 27 1980
SFZC

January 27th, 1980, Serial No. 01839

Liberation, Politics, Nirvana, Passions, Renewal, Freedom, Intimacy, Commitment, Bell...
Jan 27 1980
SFZC

Lama Govinda’s Paper

Serial: SF-00010

AIBS

Religion, Emptiness, Sanctuary, Dragons, Birth-and-Death, Lovingkindness, Passions,...
Aug 05 1978

Textual Analysis

Delusion, Posture, Nirvana, Four Noble Truths, Karma, Faith, Liberation, Hate,...
Mar 15 1976
SFZC

March 15th, 1976, Serial No. 01824

Dependent Origination, Daily Life, Transmission, Faith, Nirvana, Mindfulness,...
Mar 15 1976
SFZC

1975.12.10-serial.00130

Serial: SF-00130

Changes that occur during practice period; sutra story of monk retrieving his mother from hell; composing concrete music;

Practice Period, Ceremony, Mahayana, Nirvana, Karma, Manjushri, Addiction, Samsara,...
Dec 10 1975

Seminar

Intuition, Subject-and-Object, Nirvana, Hindrances, Interview, Lay
May 25 1975
SFZC

1975.03.28-serial.00015

Serial: SF-00015

Morning; Buddha sitting to save all beings; difference between Bodhisattva stage and Buddha stage.

Nirvana, Bodhisattva Way, Mahayana, Passions, Balance, Peace
Mar 28 1975

1973.07.18-serial.00124

Serial: SF-00124

Differences between exoteric and esoteric religious traditions.

Religion, Evil, Suzuki Roshi, Subject-and-Object, Intuition, Nirvana, Separation,...
Jul 18 1973
1

Discussions

Nirvana, Attachment, confusion, realization, Samsara, Obstacles, Impermanence,...
May 20 1973
Tassajara

Consciousness - Fourth Type

Attachment, Nirvana, Equanimity, Doubt, Ceremony, Liberation, Freedom, Addiction, Ego...
May 19 1973
Tassajara

Abhidharma Psychology

Subject-and-Object, Intuition, Constancy, Ego, Nirvana, Non-duality, Observe,...
May 13 1973
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: SF-06043

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Mahayana, Precepts, Nirvana, Enemies,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

Esalen Institute: First of two lectures

Serial: SF-05870

This is the first of two talks given at Esalen.

Dogen, Time, Four Noble Truths, Lotus Sutra, New Year, Continuous, Emptiness, soto,...
Jun 28 1968
Esalen

KPFA Radio Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson

Serial: SF-05115

Monday, November 6, 1967

KPFA RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ELSA KNIGHT THOMPSON
[Originally misdated - Friday, February 18, 1966]
Lecture B
KPFA/KPFB Studio,...

Interview, Don't Know Mind, Nirvana, Monastic Practice, Evil, Samsara, Practice...
Nov 06 1967
KPFA Berkeley

Reflections on the Prajna Paramita Sutra

Serial: SF-05135A

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #19, by Shundo David Haye =====

This is the talk that was chosen by the...

Sesshin, Sengai, Time, Emptiness, Ego, Continuous, Evil, Nirvana, Concentration,...
Aug 24 1967
Tassajara

1966, Serial No. 03507

Serial: SF-03507

Re: Various roshis; Sokei-An history - copy 1

Priest, Dragons, Nirvana, Lay, Sanctuary, Rinzai, Conversation, Zendo, Ceremony...
1966
Kyoto

On Various Roshis, Sokei-An History

Serial: SF-01125

Tape 7 copy 2

Priest, Dragons, Nirvana, Sanctuary, Rinzai, Bell, Evil, Conversation, Lay, Faith...
[field_wisdom_date]
Kyoto

Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Anger, Mindfulness, Birth-and-Death, Peace, Concentration, Avalokiteshvara, Non-...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Buddhism and the Western Poetic Imagination

Serial: SF-01847

Commercially Produced cassette: Conference Recording Service 1308 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA 94706

Silence, Conversation, Darkness and Light, Faith, Enemies, Freedom, Lay, Letting Go,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

Class

Karma, Concentration, Nirvana, Demons, Four Noble Truths, Faith, Conversation,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

Indi & World Party

zen meditation, Priest, Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, training, Religion, Samsara,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

The Philosophy of Nature

Serial: SF-03048B

Man's Place in Nature

Light-and-Darkness, Observe, Describe, Emotions, Samadhi, Nirvana, Ego, Passions, Lay...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

The World of Consciousness

Serial: SF-03042B

#8

Mahayana, Nirvana, Diversity, Impermanence, Evil, Describe, Doubt, Peace
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

Introduction to Meditation

Serial: SF-03030A

#15

Echo, Nirvana, Concentration, Ego, Continuous, Obstacles, Liberation, Enemies,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

The Future of Religion

Serial: SF-03037A

#1

Religion, Ego, Letting Go, Faith, Liberation, Forgiveness, Samadhi, Politics, Nirvana...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

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