Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It Matsuo Basho More Quotes by Matsuo Basho More Quotes From Matsuo Basho Old pond, leap-splash - a frog. Matsuo Basho ponds frogs leap Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls. Matsuo Basho festivals soul thinking Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. Matsuo Basho nothing see think you moon