biography
Michel Coquet was born in France in 1944 at towers.
At the age of sixteen, following a spiritual experience, he enters an inner quest that he will follow during all his life. Until his call-up, his life is centered on the meditative practice and strict discipline of the personality and the body through hatha yoga.
Called up, he accomplished his military service at Satori camp at Versailles, as an MP (military police). As such, he practices a year of judo. Back in civilian life, he continues the practice of the yogas.
At the age of twenty, he began the practice of karate, the Yoseikan budo and iai do (Japanese school Katori Shinto ryu sabre) with one of the first Japanese experts come in France, master Hiroo Mochizuki.
After extensive research in the areas of the philosophy of Theosophy in modern, comparative religions, Alchemy, Gnosis, and esotericism in general, of the East and the West, he went to the Japan where he lived for a period of five years (1969-1973) to deepen the path he chose, that of Japanese Budo, i.e. the martial art envisaged under his spiritual way not to destroy opponents, but to control oneself in favour of peace in and around.
It will thus become the student of recognized masters:
1 - Master Minoru Mochizuki (in the dojo where he resides) to judo (1er dan), ken-jutsu (katori style) and the aiki-jutsu (3e dan).
2 - Master for karate and budo-ko Teruo Sano. This master is the founder of the style Kokusai Bujutsu Sano-ryu Karate jutsu, school in which the author received the rank of 7e dan Kyoshi. The author will specialize in the practice of the sai-jutsu and the kombo (stick style of Okinawa).
3 - under the guidance of master Masahiko Tokuda for kyudo (archery under the precepts of zen), it will get the rank of 4e dan from the hands of the great master Matsui Masakichi, 10e dan Shihan.
Among other disciplines, he practiced aikido (Korindo style) at the Budokan of Shizuoka and kendo that he studied the foundations until 1St dan.
He is also a diploma in karate and aikido.
Along with martial arts he continues his practice of meditation and became a close student of the Zen master (branch Soto), reverend Sano Jushoku of Shizuoka Chugen-in temple.
It will be also introduced to the preliminary practices of Shugendo, and esoteric Buddhism of the Shingon school, which it would study and on which he would later write a book.
Upon her return to France following a serious accident of the knee, he writes articles and books. He became speaker and began to regularly travel to the Middle East and especially in India and Tibet, looking for masters in the spiritual realm, and everything that can bring it closer to the truth that every man is at the bottom of his heart.
During its many pilgrimages with his wife for forty years (India in the South and the North, Egypt, Japan, Israel, Tibet (Mount Kailash), sources of the Ganges, etc. There the chance to meet researchers advanced and a few rare authentic masters. After visiting the premises the most sacred of the India and Tibet, the author will undertake to be host of pilgrimage.
Having pursued diligently practice and teaching of the most ancient and famous school of Japanese sword, the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu, officially recognized in 1960 "cultural intangible property" by Chiba Prefecture, the author becomes in 2002, the spiritual leader (shidosha), and the official instructor (kyoshi) for the France.
In addition to his spiritual practice, his service as an instructor, the author wrote over fifty books published on the major themes of esoteric and religious knowledge.
Removed from the life of teacher, the author is a student and a practicing meditation and the search for the ultimate truth, the divine and infinite self.
