I don't know who the “god” or “Buddha” I believe in is

[I don't know what I'm going to do, but my tears spill out because I'm not bothered]
Saigyouboshi, who was a Tantra monk and poet, left a song like this.

In Buddhism, there are many descriptions of what Buddha is, what is a Bodhisattva, and what God is if you unravel the sutras, but if you don't want to learn academically, whether it's Buddhism or Shinto, you can leave it as “I don't know what to say,” in other words, “I don't really understand something, but come on.”

I don't really know if it's God or Buddha, but I always feel like I'm being watched over, nurtured, and encouraged by something great, and tears spill out of gratitude...

I think it's important to cherish this kind of feeling.

If you meet gods and Buddhas properly, you will be able to realize that other than that, they are not gods or Buddhas, and that it was a selfish delusion that you had imagined.
Why is it that before humans have even seen it, do gods and Buddhas think without permission that they are like this?
That made me wonder too.
If you look at Buddha image dictionaries and Buddhist painting dictionaries, the way people perceive them is different.
What is important is not the shape, but what Shinto and Buddha make us work for.
Also, how should we adjust our own wavelength to God and Buddha? Shall I say that?
Zazen is the quickest way, but you can link to gods and Buddhas by stopping all of your own activities.
I don't think God and Buddha are different things deep down.
God was discovered by man. Christianity and the like gave “personality” in explaining the harmony of nature or the laws of this world as ❝ God ❞ like work. It was humans who gave it personality. To explain justice, it would be easier to understand if you explain it with Anpanman and Baikinman when explaining it in an anime, but apart from that, I'm explaining that we humans should be like that.
Gods and Buddhas that people imagine without permission are attached to the delusions in the person's head that they imagine because “people are standing.”
Let's think that the Shinto and Buddha you are imagining right now is delusional in a good sense.
God and Buddha are things that only people who have truly experienced or embodied them can talk about.
Let's take a step back and calmly look back at the fact that imagining a god that cannot be verified is just creation.
The true God is something humans can sense, and the true Buddha is the heart that humans can reach and return to. There are people who draw the ideal Buddha outside, but in reality, what humans find within themselves is Buddha. That's why we have ascetic practices.
God in Hebrew is “I AM THAT I AM” I seem to be like that.
Rather, it is a state of harmony with that very thing when my consciousness disappears from this body.
If you reveal your selflessness through zazen or nembutsu practice, you can naturally learn the true meaning of Shinto and Buddha.
True calm will be obtained if the true place of God or Buddha is revealed as an actual experience rather than knowledge or reason.

Even if God exists, we don't know what God is thinking, do we?
Maybe it's a way of thinking that humans can't imagine.
However, in the ancient Japanese way of thinking, for example, it was thought of as a violent god or a curse god.
This is because humans themselves have values of “fighting back when done” and “getting angry and fighting,” so you probably thought “God must be like that too”?
God who creates heaven and earth, a kinship God who only helps those who follow him, God who asks for salvation from his father, and God who saves, may all be projections of human values.
If God created two humans, Adam and Eve, it might be because our parents are the first people we meet when we are babies.
If God created things along with words, it might be because when we were babies, we created concepts while listening to words.
(The conversation went off the rails, didn't it?)
If we humans think of space as Buddha (a teacher who gives hints to erase worries and suffering), for example, the space Buddha Dainichi Nyorai,
This is probably because we humans have a wonderful value that “it would be nice if everyone's worries and suffering would go away.”
The reason why there were only rough gods to an age where saving gods and Buddha leading to enlightenment appeared may be because human values have become slightly better (closer to Shinto and Buddhism).
The reason you're afraid of God (attack) may be because you have aggression within yourself.

It's a well-trained Japanese spirit.

> To specific religions

It's the difference between “religious qualifications” and “belonging to a religious group.”

> “God” created this world

The three brothers of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam presuppose such a creator god, but Buddhism and Shinto are different.
The period of Buddhist mythology is “It is known that there were 6 Buddhas even before the Buddha. No one knows about the past. The beginning of the world? I don't know.” It is supposed to be.
Shinto is what we now call the carbon cycle itself, where “God died, and vegetables and grains grew from dead bodies.” The metaphor of gods conveys such observations of nature, or the process by which humans gradually recognized that the natural world and the human world were different things due to human civilization. Let's Google Hainuwele-type mythology and Ieyaku Rikujin.

It's not strange that Japanese people have a sense of incongruity with the omniscient and omnipotent creator.

> What is such a “god” to me

Shinto is the observation of nature. The natural causal relationship of cutting down too many trees and turning it into a bald mountain, and if sparrows are exterminated, insects will increase and crops will be destroyed... is a metaphor for “the god is watching,” and has been incorporated into Japanese emotional education.

> Buddhism's “causal redemption”

This is the same. Self-earned is a Buddhist word.
So “don't do bad things, do good things, and condition yourself every day.” This is the Buddhist theme called “Shichibu Tsutsukaige,” the Shichibutsu Tsutsukaige.

> After all, there is no denying the existence of something like a god

Even if you say Buddha in a nutshell, there are actually 3 types. First, our world is flowing to revitalize life force. You were born to move naturally even if you don't know how to move your heart, right?
A Dainichi Nyorai type Buddha that expresses such a world ① with a view of the universe and the world.
Conversely, ② an Amida-sama type Buddha expressed in the image of a savior.
Then, a Buddha type Buddha is a person who realized the state of such a world and explained a way of life that doesn't become a hindrance to the flow of such a world.

That's why Buddha sometimes looks infinitely divine, and sometimes he doesn't look like a god at all.

> If there is even one person who believes, believes, and is saved

In Buddhism, this way of being is called causal union (innenkewago). People who have this sense are pretty well trained.
I hope you will become familiar with monks and Shinto from now on in order to direct that aptitude towards peace of mind (mercy) rather than anxiety (threat)