Step 1

Symbol of Recognition

This one's easy.  Get invited to join Voln by finding a Master or hang around the old warrior in town until he invites you, he's a Voln Master as well. After that, enter the pool in the Voln courtyard and rest there until you are told you feel free of all worldly pollutions.  Then enter the gate, go east then south, and listen to the Grandmaster.  When you recite the initiation oath, he directs you to go through the white arch.  There a monk will instruct you in the use of the Symbol of Recognition.