strings: Say, For example, I have the stored-up memories of nationalism, calling myself a Hindu. rI'lvat reservoir of memories of past responses, actions, implications, traditions, customs, responds to the challenge of a Mussulman, a Buddhist or a Christian, and thc response of mcrnory to the challenge inevitably brings about a thought process. Watch the thought proccss operating in yourself and you can test the truth of this directly. You have been insulted by someone, and that rcmams m your memory it forms part of the background. When you meet the person, which is the. challenge, the  response is the memory of that insult. So the response of memory, which is the thought process, creates an idea; thercforc the idea is always conditioned—and this is import.ant to understand. That is to say the idea is the result of thc thought process, the thought process is the response of memory, and memory is always conditioned. Memory is always in the past, and that memory is given life in the present by a challenge. Memory has no life in itself; it comes to life in the present when confronted by a challenge. And all memory, whether dormant or active, is conditioned, is it not?