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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei

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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei was in full-time residential training at the Monastery from 1995 to 2014, fourteen of those years as a monastic. She is now a lay teacher in the MRO, currently on sabbatical in New York City.

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