nothing special needed...

spiritual practitioners that took to the deeper meanings and practices 

were set on knowing what is real

they went about doing this with an urgency in their hearts

as if something was hanging on them equal to the feeling 

of life and death 

this is like a weight that hangs on the heart and will not leave  

the soul alone until this quest to know the truth has come to it's conclusion

so the practitioner is taken inward by his strong desire 

to be free

he, if he is deep into the practices does not separate sound from

silence or attempt to sequester himself from the world 

the world is the practice in which he is to stabilize his being 

into whatever experience appears 

without drawing away into a shell of his private world 

or his private space that has been created 

the world is not a place to be resisted, it is a place in which 

all things rise and fall to be seen, heard, felt, tasted, touched 

it is a world that flows as all things flow with beginning, middle and end 

it is the same like this in all places 

so the practitioner need nothing special but his heart open, his mind open 

his life open to this moment that flows the same in all ways 

the practitioner has his connection to his path which carries the energy to 

move him forward, yet he is not dependent or looking for answers there 

he is looking to see what is true and false for himself 

as this is the only thing with lasting value 

the practitioner that secludes himself away is much more vulnerable to 

challenge when it comes up for he has not been assimilated into the regular 

flow of life with it's ups, downs and all the play there 

this is the value of practicing in regular life with no special clothing, ornaments 

outward appearance, language or circumstances 

one is simply moving with the current of circumstances that comes in it's own

time and way and not setting a special place to be within the heart and quietude