Full context:   As a proposition, the four truths defy an exact definition, but refer to and express the basic orientation of Buddhism: sensory contact gives rise to clinging and craving to temporary states and things, which is ultimately unsatisfactory, dukkha, and sustains samsara, the repeated cycle of bhava (becoming, habitual tendencies) and jāti ("birth", interpreted as either rebirth, the coming to be of a new existence; or as the arising of the sense of self as a mental phenomenon[web 4]). [note 7] By following the Buddhist path, craving and clinging can be confined, peace of mind and real happiness [note 8] can be attained, and the repeated cycle of repeated becoming and birth will be stopped. [note 3]