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Osho RISK Summer Festival 2015 Cabaret Skit featuring Milarepa as Core Dash eeKhan

“A little foolishness and a little wisdom is good, and the right combination makes you a Buddha.” Osho, Returning To The Source

I conceived this skit for the cabaret variety show that happened on the last evening of the Osho RISK Summer Festival 2015. It stars Nadiya, Nikhil, Sudas, and myself (Milarepa). Subhuti is giving the introduction. I play Core Dash eeKhan, a parody of the mega-famous Indian Bollywood star, Salman Khan, often seen in films wearing impossibly short, tight cut-off jeans and sporting a super-ripped physique. He is also a master of all manner of pelvic thrusting when he dances.

I was a little worried (to put it mildly) whether I would be able to manage some semblance of a sculpted physique for the show. I shamelessly admit that a week before the performance I did fifty sit-ups every morning. I am not sure I suceeded in converting my one-pac to a six-pac, but kudos for trying. Once the lights went up and the show was on, all these sorts of worries vanished in a flash and there was nothing else going on, either in my mind or unhinged hips, except the immense fun we were all having.

The storyline runs like this: In the first half of the skit, Nadiya is holding Core’s mirror in which he is constantly admiring himself. Enamored with his own image, he can hardly be bothered with the two women constantly buzzing around him vying for attention. The women don’t give up easily. In fact, the more they are ignored, the more determined they are to make him take notice. However, Core being Core, refuses to let himself be distracted. He is always going back to the mirror from which he can continue admiring his image. At some point, Nadiya becomes bored and fed up. Ditching the mirror, she decides to join the other girls, and at one point says to Core with a wink: “Hai, kem cho. Majama cho?” which translates from Gujarati to English as: “Hey, how are you? Are you happy?” At this point, the two other “women” take off their costumes, revealing themselves to be none other than Nikhil and Sudas, two male Osho RISK residents. The dancing shifts into high-gear as all four break into full-on “bhangra masala”, a take on the traditional Punjabi folk-dancing style.

It was really fun doing this. Everyone enjoyed a lot. It was something creatively different for me to be involved in other than the music which I am usually doing for the festival. I would like to say thank you to Nadiya, Nikhil, and Sudas for being good sports, and courageous enough, to support me in this little bit of intentional madness. Hahaha … life is a play indeed. Enjoy! Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-yjZp6DxzM.

When I close my eyes and think about the festival I see a rainbow: a kaleidoscope of color, feeling, and emotion — a Great Affair of the heart as Osho might say. And beyond, the vastness, the sea, the sky, the silence. The festival felt like a natural progression from the previous Family Constellation Training, a flow of energy that transitioned effortlessly into meditation, lightness of being, openness, and celebration. What a gift. Transformation was still present in the eyes of those from the group who stayed on. Dynamic Meditation with Riktam, Tai-Chi with Zarathustra, and Morning Satsang with the musicians set the tone each morning for the day’s adventures which included: Bhangra Masala Dancing and Theater Improvisation with Bodhi Svaaha; Born Again with Haridasi; Mystic Rose with Alexandra; Past-Life and Family Constellation with Darshan; a singing workshop with Vatayan; Shamanism with Carlos; Heart Dance, Sannyas Celebration, and many more wonderful highlights. Highlights such as this: one afternoon before Kundalini Meditation, the event overflowed yet again when a big box of just-baked custard tarts arrived (the famous ones from Belem!) from one of the event’s sponsors. This was enjoyed, of course, with port wine. Mmm … Portugal. Simply the best. And the band, wow! Thank you guys: Vatayan (keyboards), Bhavesh (drums), and Carlos (guitar). The music was divinely off-the-charts. Special thanks to Darshan and her incredible Heart-Team. Obrigado a todos e vê-lo novamente em breve.

It has been now three weeks since the Family Constellation Training in Lisbon. The Osho Heart Festival followed on three days afterward, so it has been a busy time without much opportunity to share impressions. I can say that since the training, every day brings new insights and understandings of myself. Some of these insights are not without pain. It is as if the expansion of my soul is stretching the limits of what I ever imagined possible. Call them “growing pains”.

The group was not especially conducive to photography. The few photos compiled can never adequately show the transformations of those seven days, how lives were touched and changed, the renewal and sense of freedom, the power of love, the coming home to oneself; nor the many miracles that shower from seeing “what is”. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone in the group for the courage you showed, for your sincerity and honesty — all of which inspired and helped me take the steps I needed for myself and my own life-direction. And thank you Darshan: for your love, for your great passion for the work, and for holding the space for us all to explore, go deeper, and fly higher. What an adventure.

Too many words do no justice to affairs of the heart. But one more word here is necessary here: Osho.