in that there is

[Kolridg]

Hello. I would appreciate your help with the next question. I wonder which meaning of "in that there is" would be correct for my text quoted below.

"for the reason that there is": You can give all your energy to listening because you don't have such thing like a center from which you are listening, so your whole being is entirely in the process of listening (not only your centre or periphery, or any other part).

"In which there is": On the other hand, you can give all your energy to listening and there is no centre in this process of listening.

Meditation, attention and silence | J. Krishnamurti Extract from Public Talk #6, Madras (Chennai), India, 1979 (full text is available on youtube only, so I don't share the link)

You can only have great space when there is no centre. The moment you have a centre there must be circumference, there must be diameter, a movement from this centre to the peripheral. So space implies no centre. Therefore it is absolutely limitless. And we are saying concentration is a distraction of thought. Thought itself is a distraction. And attention implies giving all your energy to listen, to see – right? – in that there is no centre.

 

[jutfrank]

Your second interpretation is closest to the correct one. What he's saying is that in attention there is no centre.

that = attention

 

[Tdol]

It is an idiosyncratic view.

 

[Tarheel]

I would disagree with that. The "center" is whatever it is you're focused on.