Sei-mei-shin - Pure and Bright Heart
The ideal of maintaining a pure, bright, and cheerful spirit.
Sei-mei-shin describes the ideal Shinto heart: pure (sei), bright (mei), and correct (shin). This combines inner purity with outward cheerfulness and optimism. Maintaining sei-mei-shin enables proper communion with the kami and contributes to community harmony.
Keep your heart pure and bright like the morning sun, and the kami will dwell within.
Sei-mei-shin represents the psychological ideal cultivated through Shinto practice.
Shrine teachings