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| Estimated 175,000 partygoers each night |
It's time to blast off to Vegas for the Electric Daisy Carnival rave and music festival. Since it unceremoniously got driven out of Los Angeles, it has found a home in Lost Wages, Nevada, near the Sphere where Gwen Stefani's No Doubt reunion shows are taking place. Oh, the traffic. But never mind that. It's time to party.
No Doubt at Sphere last week (full show)
EDC Las Vegas 2026: official trailer
(Globia Travel) What is Las Vegas like on the Strip? Come gamble your life savings away, Lucky.
Hedonism leads to happiness?
SUTRA: The Buddha's future disciples at the Big Festival
1. YOUTH [1] Near the capital of the kingdom (in today's Bihar) there were small towns. The youth was born a privileged Brahmin in one, claiming descent of an ancient seer. The town, full of Brahmins, was very conservative. His father was from the most prominent family. Being high caste from the town's most respected family, his father was like a petty king. So he grew up with wealth and honor, knowing very little of sorrow.
He was educated like a [Boston] Brahmin. That education included being taught about a life beyond. There was another Brahmin family in a neighboring town. On the day he was born, in the other town, a son was born. When they grew up they became friends and were soon inseparable. Whatever they did they did together, play and study, pleasure and work. They were always together. They didn't quarrel or hold grudges against each other even though their dispositions were very different. One was a pioneer type, daring and enterprising, the other liked to cultivate what he had already gained. One was an only child, the other had three brothers and three sisters.
Their friendship meant a lot and filled their daily life, and they liked the other sex, light-hearted and indulging at their youthful age. Each was the leader of a group of friends with lot of high spirited play and sports. When they went swimming, their companions rode horses and others rode around like kings, playboys, enamored by the intoxications of youth, health, riches, and a good life.
In the capital, there was a giant annual celebration full of popular entertainment and amusement, the "Big Festival" on the hill. Of course, the friends all went to enjoy it. They reserved places to watch all the entertainments. When there was something funny, they laughed, when there was something fascinating, they got excited. They enjoyed it all so much that they went back for a second day to watch more performances.
But with the heightening of their expectations, their joyous mood failed. They still went back for a third day, since they had reserved it -- a new program of entertainments. They did not sleep well that night, however, as impressions of the previous partying haunted their minds.
While laying awake with insomnia, one thought: "What's the use of all this for us? Is there here that's really worthwhile? What's the benefit? Before long, all these glamorous people and actors will be old and decrepit. They will leave life and continue wandering on through existence (samsara), driven by sensuality and other insatiable cravings. And it's the same with us. These people can't even help themselves to solve the problems of their existence. How, then, can they help us? We're just wasting our time here instead of getting any closer to liberation!"
The other friend also had a restless night full of similar thoughts. He reflected how these dramatic performances had something to do with the reality of rebirth, but the joking and frolicking overlaying everything, pretending that there was only this life to worry about, was an artificial suppression, repressing the truth, all full of vain illusions.
On the morning of the third day, they went to their reserved spots at the festival, and one asked the other, "What's the matter with you? You're not your merry self like before. What are you depressed about?"
The other friend replied, "Tell me, what's the use of all these pleasures, all this candy for the eye and ear? It's worthless and useless! I'd rather be on a spiritual quest, searching for a way out, release, freedom, total liberation. The devastating law of impermanence, it all sucks. There has to be a way to liberation from all these fleeting illusions with their temporary allure haunting us and yet leaving us empty. That's what's been going through my head and making me think. Hey, but what you,? You look anything but cheerful!"
His friend replied, "I've been feeling the same as you. Why stay any longer for this BS vanity show? We should seek a way to something that's not BS!"
When he heard his friend had been thinking the same thing with the same wish, he happily said, "That's wild that we've been thinking the same thing! We've wasted our time and our lives long enough with all these worthless things. If one really wants a path to freedom, one has to leave home and all these possessions that possess us. We should go forth on a quest like pilgrims, free ourselves from the bondage of worldly crap and all this sensuality, rise above it like birds in the sky."
They agreed, and the two friends decided to ditch it all and become spiritual nomads, leading a life of simplicity away from it all, wanderers, on the road, surviving like ascetics.
They wandered around India searching for a guru, a spiritual teacher, or some teaching to guide them. When they had told their friends about their decision, most of those young men were so impressed that they joined them on their spiritual quest. All of them left home, took off their Brahmin threads, cut off their long hair, and put on the earth-colored garments of wanderers. Discarding the marks and signs of their privileged caste, they gave up the class system and entered among the classless ascetics. That's how the journey began.
WARNING to tourists in Las Vegas!
Electric Daisy Carnival
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| EDC is a cool temporary city in the dark. |
The event features electronic dance producers and DJs and incorporates a variety of electronic music, including house, techno, drum 'n bass, and dubstep [3].
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| EDC Mainstage 2018: Electric Daisy Carnival |
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Post blackout blues: I don't remember anything (because I got high)
CAUTIONARY TALE: Afroman "Because I Got High" (explicit uncensored dirty version)
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