• If calm is what you are looking for, where will you find it when you stop looking?
• The wave worries about becoming the shore. What does the ocean think of this?
• You say you want peace. What would you do if it arrived?
• If anxiety is the alarm, what is the house?
• You have been breathing your whole life without trying. Why do you believe stopping is in danger of happening?
• What is the space between one breath and the next?
• If you were already calm, what would you notice that you cannot see now?
• The tree bends in the storm and does not break. Which part of you is the root?
• You are running from something that lives inside you. How far have you gotten?
• The river does not hurry and yet it reaches the sea. Where are you hurrying?
• You carry your past in both hands and wonder why your arms are tired.
• What is the difference between a thought and the thinker?
• When the anxiety passes, where does it go? Where were you while it was here?
• You want to fix yourself. But what if nothing is broken?
• The silence is not empty. What is in it?
• You have survived every hard thing that has ever happened to you. What is the evidence that this one is different?
• What were you before you learned to be afraid?
• The harder you try to relax, the further away it gets. What would you do if you stopped trying?
• When you say "I am anxious," who is the "I" watching the anxiety?
• A door only works if there is something on the other side. What is your anxiety a door to?

These are traditional teaching koans. Use as-is or as a starting point for content.

• What was your face before your parents were born? — Huineng
• What is the sound of one hand clapping? — Hakuin
• If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. — Linji
• Does a dog have Buddha nature? — Zhaozhou — answer: Mu
• What is your original home?
• Before thinking, what are you?
• Where do you go when you die? Where were you before you were born?
• The whole world is medicine. What is the self?
• When you are hungry, eat. When you are tired, sleep. Why is this so difficult?
• Not knowing is most intimate.

Not traditional koans, but contemplative questions drawn from Taoist thought.

• The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao. So what have you been naming?
• What would Wu Wei look like in your life tomorrow morning?
• The valley is empty. The valley is useful. What are you making room for?
• Water does not fight the rock. It waits. What have you been fighting that might yield to patience?
• Lao Tzu said: "A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your feet." Where are your feet right now?
• The sage does not show off and therefore shines. What are you trying to prove, and to whom?
• What would it look like to do less, and mean it?