Allan Lokos is the founder/guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center and the director of the Community of Peace and Spirituality in New York City. A former professional singer who was in the Broadway productions of Oliver! and Pickwick, Lokos teaches the interfaith perspective and core Buddhist practices at New York Insight Meditation Center, The New Seminary, One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, and Marymount College. A regular contributor to Tricycle magazine, he lives in New York City.