The importance of a new name

Anyone with a social network has noticed that the status is in third person and this (What is XXXX thinking / doing / interesting...), for many, may seem strange. But is it? Maybe for Facebook but the "third person" is a device essential for a journey of personal growth because it destroys the ego or personality that we self-built day after day to defend us. Every day we wear masks to be accepted by others, say the role of angry, some nice, good, the compassionate, the sensitive, the reactionaries, creative, and so on. And 'as for the clothes we wear: we try to choose and wear clothes that we can universally to bond with others. The world is wearing the shirt? And we wear the shirt. The world wears a miniskirt? And we will wear a miniskirt. Then there are those who go to get noticed on the contrary: the world wears a miniskirt? And we wear the pants. Everything is made to be noticed by others: for better or worse, as long as we speak. With the ego is the same with the result, however, that we go to work on the subconscious and eventually we end up believing it, we identify ourselves with those masks. This gives rise to the "way I am", "I can not change", etc.. with the result of positions taken, pride, strife, struggle based simply on these masks. But they are only masks, we had to wear dresses and that over time we are ever closer. To this day there comes a sense of dissatisfaction, that want something more, that feeling that the world is much more than what we have been painted in years. Is there a way to get out and reconnect with what we really are and cast off these clothes? Of course there is a long but made of ego shoulder, painful, which must also pass to relive those past situations, thanks to self-ego, we jumped at the foot 'of the illusion of having overcome and then discovering that in reality you are just crowded situations of situations. A first step, however you can do and we start from the name. What is your name? Simply a label, a badge. It 'as the actor who by dint of playing a role in a soap ends up confused and not know who is in reality. The shortest step is to really talk in third person. Who is that funny, sharp, unlucky, lucky, happy, sad etc..? I? No, it's him, is what the name X. At first it may seem strange, but over time unpleasant episodes that would destroy us first become almost comical: it's like to be rude but I'm not the character in a movie I'm watching. Do not touch me so much. And 'the shortest way because in reality it takes a little game but it is also one that requires more time. And it is a sort of step do-it-yourself. The "status" of FB, however, may get the idea. Saying "I'm angry" has a value. Say "Daniel is angry," he has another. Who is this Daniel? The longer wheelbase but is the name change and break the mechanism. "Daniel" is happy, sad, happy, loser, lucky, etc.. etc..? Change, give it another name, a nickname, for example, "Majnu". "Majnu" is a new label, has no features and you can begin a path deeper and perhaps more immediate. It is no coincidence that all the great mystics, from Buddha to Jesus and so chose to change his name to his disciples. Why, for example, Jesus said to Simon, who became the day on which his disciples would be called Cephas (or Peter)? Why, again to be among Christians, the popes change their names? What then is the same concept that is the basis of the "nickname" on the web. As "Judge Daniel" I'm going to be what they are in everyday life. How "Pincopallo76" I can be anything. Here, this situation can be applied to everyday life, with enormous benefits. The name change is an important step. Sure, it's a first step that can be done. The mystics will suggest later that are even harder (for example, Jesus: "I do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword. I have come to separate the son from father, daughter against her mother, the daughter of the mother-in-law, man's enemies will be those of his household "Matthew 10.34. Or Buddha:" Leave aside the concepts of good and evil, give up your family "Dhammapada 267) that are obviously understood and explained without taking literally their sentences but have a very profound sense. Even in this case is identified with something that has nothing to do with us. With a dress. With a mask. But speech is a different and broader. To this I would like to thank FB status, and this thing in third person. It 'only a step, a small step towards a deeper contact with ourselves.