So commandment three would be: “Here for the experience; live in the moment; just for today (no fear)!”

Look around. Take in your surroundings, assess the environmental conditions, and assess your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual conditions. Right now, at this moment! Thoughts and emotions that are not about this moment are to be discarded. Focus on this moment. What do you know? What do you observe? What is your state or condition?

Are you dry? Are you warm? Are you safe? Are you hungry? Are you clothed? Are you armed? Are you defenceless? Are you clean? Is there any imminent threat to your personal safety? Well then, things must be pretty good at this moment. Now ask yourself, is there any other moment but the one you are occupying at this moment?

What is it that stops us from being in the moment?

Knowledge, thinking, and our magic minds are what stop us from continuing to enjoy the magic of childhood. When we were kids, we spent the majority of our waking time in the moment. Think back to those childhood days spent playing, adventuring, imagining, inventing, and being in the moment. Then we went to school and started the decline, slipping away from the moment into some other time and space that was artificially created by our minds. Structure is the anti-moment. Commitments, appointments, and schedules all become the nemesis of the unstructured—of living in the moment. The true warrior therefore works on living in the now without sacrificing knowledge and wisdom. He or she does this by discarding those thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that corrupt the warrior’s ability to be here now. Let go. Throw them away. Discard them. It is all illusion created by your mind.

Does this mean the true warrior does not plan? Does not anticipate? Does not think about possible outcomes? Does not contemplate the past? No, it means that the true warrior does not confuse these mental exercises with his or her existence. The true warrior does not live and die anywhere but in the moment. In the moment, many emotions lose their power to claim the mind of the true warrior. Be here now.

You are warriors. You will live in the moment and help your community in the here and now. So it is written.