Can't God or Buddha help me?

I saw the question
I don't believe it because they won't help me.
I understand it very well.
I'm also a monk, so I put my hands together and pray every day, but they don't help me at all. There are times when I think that.
Why aren't you helping me? with
But I later realized that there was an opportunity to be saved somewhere.
Also, human life is intricately intertwined with the lives of various people. It's like saying that even if you put your sleeves together, it's a relationship between other people. I think of life as a cloth woven by others and myself.
It's sad, but I think that's why there are things called sudden unfortunate deaths.

Also, the Buddha is not someone who can save us without a curtain.
The Lotus Sutra says, “If you look at sentient beings, you can see them sinking into a sea of suffering, but they won't help you right away. It shows the path leading to enlightenment for the first time when you reach an immovable heart to know the truth from the bottom of your heart.” It says (my translation).
It's your heart and not being able to believe when you see others not being saved, and it sounds like your excuse, even though it's a tough way of saying it.
Certainly, if they were saved, they would join hands saying thank you, but if you get help every time, humans will be spoiled and they won't make an effort.
Helping is not true salvation.
Many people suffered due to the earthquake in Kyushu, and many deaths are right around the corner.
I can't help but pray.
Mourn the family of those who died so that people in distress can have hope and believe in tomorrow...
What about you?
Can't you put your hands together because the Buddha won't help you?
One person's prayer is a small change.
If it increases from 10 to 100 people, it will gradually become a big change. That swell might be able to help one person.
People are the only ones who can help people.
I think it's the Buddha who gives me that power.
I think it is Buddha who supports a heart that works tirelessly.
It didn't answer my question, but I honestly wrote what I thought.
I can only hope it helps your heart.

I read it. I also think that is true of what you said. Today, too, innocent people were affected by the Kumamoto earthquake or by the Great East Japan Earthquake that is fresh in my memory, and their lives have been spared. And the grief of those who lost close people is unstoppable. Do gods and Buddhas really exist! It makes me think. Why can't God or Buddha save us! I can't help but think about it.
Seeing innocent people lose their lives really makes my heart feel tightened, and I painfully feel my own helplessness. Under such circumstances, I was only able to offer prayers to those who died during the Great East Japan Earthquake. It was the best I could do to pray that Buddha would guide those who have passed away correctly, and that they would spend their time in peace from the bottom of my heart. Believing in God or Buddha is different. However, we are powerless, and I feel painfully that we are ephemeral beings. In such a difficult world, I believe that it is the Buddha's teachings and the Buddha that saves people. The Buddha will save both living people and those who die without mistakes. I don't know if that was the answer, but I think it will be helpful.

Good evening, Nawako-san, nice to meet you

Now let's take a look at the question this time, for example, a person who decided to commit violence appears in front of one day
I think it would be difficult to reverse this.
In the first place, Shinto and Buddha's guardian is not a bodyguard dressed in black. Wouldn't it be the protection of Shinto and Buddha to prevent that day from coming?
Also, if you meant to kill them but ended up just hurting them, then maybe that can also be said to be the protection of Shinto and Buddha

If you happen to get away with a phone call and talk for a long time and you get away with it, the person who made the call may be someone sent by Shinto and Buddha

If someone who happened to pass by the scene where they were being hit helped, that may also be someone sent by Shinto and Buddha

So what if I die?

If you die due to clear murderous intent or the rage of a natural disaster, if you ask if there is no protection for Shinto or Buddha, I will answer from the standpoint that it is different

If we die after being sacrificed, then what can we do for those of us left behind? Isn't it about forgetting the regrets of those people and taking measures so that it never happens again?

This is common not only to murder and accidental death, but also to death from illness, natural death, etc.
People tend to turn their eyes away from inevitable death, but medicine has created current technology from many sick and dead patients in order to overcome death. Traffic accidents have been reduced by placing guardrails on roads where many elderly people jump out.
These are all lessons learned from death.
We won't waste those people's deaths.
It is a good act of a person to think like this and actually put it into action. Depending on the interpretation of that good act, I think it can be said that it is the protection of Shinto and Buddhism.
I think “The Protection of Shinto and Buddhism” is all an afterthought, and I think it's a convenient interpretation.
If you think someone was protected, you were protected, and if you think they were lucky by chance, that person's luck was good.
The lesson of saving many people in the future from someone else's sacrifice is also guardians, commandments, and history from person to person.

In order to connect to the future, we can't do it without the cooperation of many people, not individuals, right?
The weak forces of each person are put together and made into one big force so that tragedies can be avoided.
I think it is precisely because they believe in the strength of such people that Shinto and Buddhism don't directly touch them.
I hope you find it helpful.

What you said is true.
However, Buddha's teaching in Buddhism is that you should protect yourself.

It means accumulating lots of good causes so that there are good results, and that you have firm control over your own mind.
It is only when you protect yourself that you can help others.

Therefore, each of us must control our own minds and do good deeds.
And if you can afford it, you should help others to the extent possible by volunteering, donating, etc.

However, abusers abuse innocent people because they were raised without education about this (Buddhism, morality, etc.) since they were children. In other words, there is a cause in the parent of the abuser, and if that happens, there is also a cause in that parent.
And in the end, abusive people end up torturing themselves, such as regrets or being arrested.
Therefore, adults must properly educate their children.
Thus, we must break the negative chain.

Also, they are born with brain cell problems, and they may attack others because of that.
This is a tragedy caused by mistakes made by facility managers, etc., even though this kind of person must be properly protected for that person at the facility.
The offender's parents are suffering quite a bit, haven't they?
We must protect such people well.

Also, there is nothing humans can do about natural disasters. Human life is so ephemeral in the face of great natural forces. This cannot be prevented. Of course, efforts to reduce damage are important, but they are powerless in the face of too much power.

Therefore, we have no choice but to control our own minds and accept them.
At that time, it is up to each religious denomination and each person to decide how to accept it.
I believe that when I run out of life, I believe in Amitabha and go to the Pure Land of Paradise. I believe in Amitabha Buddha not to have my life saved, but to have my heart saved.
Unlike me who was foolish, Buddha was able to accept death as it was through enlightenment.
I haven't reached enlightenment, so I'm not going to be like the Buddha.
This is what believing in Shinto and Buddhism means to me.

This earthquake also caused a lot of casualties and damage. It's very painful and sad.
Let's pray for the attainment of Buddhism for those who have passed away.
Let's help as much as we can.