Allan Lokos

Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center in New York City. He is the author of Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living, and his latest, Through the Flames: Overcoming Disaster Through Compassion, Patience, and Determination. His writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, Tricycle magazine, Beliefnet, and several anthologies. 

A practitioner of meditation since the mid-1990s, he has studied with renowned teachers including Sharon Salzberg, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joseph Goldstein, Robert Thurman, and Stephen Batchelor.