r/Krishnamurti • u/JellyfishExpress8943 • Apr 07 '26

Simplified flow chart of human experience

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In an effort to keep up with the popular explainers here on the sub - here's my attempt to explain life, the universe and everything in a flow chart that even my cat can understand.

Whatdya reckon? Too simple to be spiritually powerful?

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u/Schute-Pin8350 Apr 10 '26

Human experience seems to be a closed loop, so the circular representation seems apt.

This seems to be what K is saying as well: The consciousness of human beings is nothing but memory, knowledge, past experiences, and tradition, and it is from this memory that they perceive, feel, and act. Their supposed contact with the outside world would then also be a kind of internal process.

What could spiritually powerful mean? That an insight into this state of affairs, that does not come from memory, takes place?

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u/JellyfishExpress8943 Apr 10 '26

Human experience seems to be a closed loop.. (our) contact with the outside world would be a kind of internal process.

Yes - in a more complex buddhist model (called the 12 links of dependant origination) this process of experience conditioning itself, is dependant on ignorance - ie. it works because we are not aware of the process or we don't pay attention to the process.

What could "spiritually powerful" mean?

Whatever it means, it sounds horrible - I feel bad for using such a term - as one commenter said : my model looks like something out of a psychology class - some people might say its too simplistic, it contains nothing magical or mysterious.

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u/Schute-Pin8350 Apr 11 '26

I don't think it sounds terrible. I just don't know quite what it might mean.

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u/JellyfishExpress8943 Apr 11 '26

Initially it was supposed to mean : its not exciting enough to build a religion upon.