How We Get Older

"Once after a lecture someone asked my teacher Shunryu Suzuki, "Why do we meditate?"

He answered, "So you can enjoy your old age.""

http://dogobarrygraham.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-we-get-older.html

" I know how I got older. I know because I was there - but without the practice of meditation during the last 24 years, I might not have been there. I might not have been paying attention."