This paper presents the Time Mandala, a minimal, domain-agnostic model describing how sequences unfold through time. The framework identifies eight recurring stages through which potential becomes action, action enters constraint, produces effects, and re-enters subsequent cycles under altered conditions. The model is descriptive rather than predictive and does not advance causal or normative claims. By emphasizing structural sequence over domain-specific content, the Time Mandala provides a compact grammar for analyzing processes across psychological, creative, interpersonal, biological, and physical contexts. The Time Mandala does not describe meaning, motivation, or identity, but the minimal temporal structure through which regulation, action, and continuation occur across scales. Permissions NoticeThis work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Any use involving adaptation, modification, translation, educational deployment, therapeutic application, derivative modeling, or inclusion in external platforms beyond unchanged archival hosting requires explicit written permission from the author.