Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center located on New York City's upper west side.
Lokos has practiced meditation since the mid-nineties and studied with such renowned teachers as Sharon Salzberg, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Joseph Goldstein, Andrew Olendzki, and Stephen Batchelor.
[citation needed] Earlier in this life Lokos enjoyed a successful career as a professional singer.
[citation needed] On Christmas Day, 2012, Lokos and his wife Susanna Weiss boarded Air Bagan Flight 11 which crashed while landing in Myanmar.
His book, Through the Flames, tells the story of the accident and offers a wide array of teachings from the Buddhist perspective.