"That Happened"

"That happened" is the best Buddhist phrase I have learned so far.

"That happened" is well-supplemented (or prefaced by) by a laugh.

Saying "that happened" can be the panacea for anything life throws at you. "That happened" removes denial and puts you in your actual environment. How are you going to be upset in your actual environment? Your actual environment just is.

Suffering comes from when we want Environment B but we are in Environment A. The phrase "that happened" brings you fully into environment A. Your mind lets go of environment B and you are happy, here in environment A.

Below is a second explanation. Krishnamurti explains the idea in a way that initially landed for me: 

"Suffering is merely high intense clarity of thought which forces you to recognize things as they are. Let me take an example. Suppose that you are class-minded, class-conscious, snobbish. You don't know that you are snobbish, but you want to find out if you are; how will you find out? By becoming conscious of your thought and your emotions. Then what happens? Suppose that you discover that you are snobbish, then that very discovery creates a disturbance, a conflict, and that very conflict dissolves snobbishness, whereas if you merely discipline the mind not to be snobbish, you are developing a different characteristic which is the opposite of being a snob, and being deliberate, therefore false, is equally pernicious."

That happened.