What is Commitment?

What does it mean to commit your self to some action or activity that implies a result? Why does the mind say, "I must commit so that I can achieve"? Is it not the outcome of ones judgement of the self that is seeking the perception of change? It implies an element of time. Commitment and its accompanying result is thoughts movement through time as the self that knows. But what is it that the self actually accomplishes? If the known is the illusion of a self that thinks it knows, then its movement as a commitment is also an illusion. If we agree that the moment is the only reality (and it is), then how can a future moment be anything but the fantasy of the hoped for?

If you realize in the moment that you need to lose weight or be more peaceful, then the truth of that realization is your action in the moment, not in a future moment. If we think in terms of a future result, then what one is actually doing is escaping the realization of that moment. The entire self help industry is based on this fallacy. It plays on your desire to ignore the truth of the moment and instead delays realizing an intelligence that sees into very nature of that truth. You don't need a system or a supplement of pills and platitudes to prompt action in the moment. One only needs to see and realize the true self which is not lacking, sordid or incompetent. There is no "will power" involved in seeing the truth, it is simply staying in the moment and accepting the reality of what is. Because the mind is continuously projecting what should be, it cannot deal intelligently with the actual reality of what is. All the teachers, guru's, and self help nut cases are just assisting you with your illusions about self. They are all telling you that you need to change and that change takes time and that you must "follow". Change is in the moment or it is not at all. There is nothing in your illusion of the future that is more important than the reality of the absolute moment. You just have to rid yourself of the guilt that you have accumulated as a result of all the political, religious and idealistic authorities that have been brain washing you for years. If you follow anyone you will be committing yourself to a life time of denigrating mediocrity that imprisons you mind and keeps you in the darkness of the known. The moment frees you totally, for it is in the moment that the true self is realized. But one must see the futility of commitment to an ideal. The mind must release all that pent up anger toward the self which is manifested in our habits and attitudes. You don't need to commit, you just have to see.