Why meditation

Meditators gain many benefits from insight meditation:

They are called cautious ones.
They are well-prepared for death.
They have closed the doors to the four lower worlds.
They have paid the highest respect to the Buddha.
They are travelling in the middle way.
They have well preserved the Buddhist heritage.
They have propagated Buddhism.
They rightly follow the Tripitaka, the Buddhist canon.
Their lives are not wasted.
They have preserved the right doctrine.
They have accumulated merit which will follow them in every life.
They will escape suffering and find real peace.

Life without mind purification is like barren land or a container wasted because it is empty. Living for one day trying to purify the mind is better than living for a hundred years without spiritual practice.