 Yogacara  offers a third alternative: everything is “empty” of a mind-independent self. All that exists are mental states. Consistent with the doctrine of “no-self,” Yogacara Buddhists deny that there is a substantial entity that has, thinks, or experiences the mental states. However, in order to explain why there are correlations among experiences (for example, why the apparent experience of “my starting a fire” is correlated with the apparent experience of “you feeling warmth”), Yogacara posits a   repository consciousness  (Skt. alayavijnana) which metaphorically contains the “seeds” of previous experiences that bear fruit in later experiences. 