And yet, with this way of speaking we do not want to ward off " opinions" and doctrines and standpoints, but to indicate the repulsion from a history of [G129] be-ing itself wherein be-ing was overpowered by beings that were of be-ing's ever-first-inceptual but un-retained sway.
This repulsion is still merely the reverse side of a questioning that has ventured into what is uninquired. We call the uninquired the 't/here', the clearing wherein no longer any support from beings (for determining being) can be invented nor a refuge unto beingness (the self-evidence of being) can be sought — beingness as what is lastingly fixed since long ago.
However, the clearing of the 't/here', wherein what needs no support and is not a refuge prevails, is not the empty. If we take the 't/here' in this way, then we would still be casting a furtive glance at beings and beingness. In that case, we do not inquire into, and do not venture the undecided and that which comes towards us by itself. But if we inquire, if we are wholly the listeners who listen to, and are bounded by this clearing - then we are also already en owned by that which sways within this clearing, that is, by the refusal.
What if be-ing itself were to be this: the en-owning that allots man to itself (to be-ing) by directing him back unto the inquiringly inabiding the 't/here', so that therein he inquires into, and inquiringly encounters, the sway of his historical human domain, that is, his allottedness unto be-ing as the guardianship of the truth of be-ing.
What if be-ing itself were to be this: enowning as the refusal that forthwith 'owns' man 'over unto' the undecidedness of that which needs this lighted refusal — man who is directed back to the grounding of his ownmost — in order to let the hiddenness of the godhood of gods and their siteless nearness and remoteness wink at him?
That which in the clearing of the 't/here' is "unsupported" and "is not a refuge" is neither a deficiency nor a possession but that enthralling, which vis-a-vis every 'having' and 'not having' (representational production) becomes a hint unto the refusal that sways through the enthralling — a refusal which gifts man unto the question-worthiness of his ownmost, while gifting gods unto the needfulness of be-ing.
In the course of his utilitarian way of representing-producing beings, man comes upon being as beingness [G130] of beings in order to forget it (being) soon, and with this forgetting to have a sufficient relation (as non-relation) to being. The subsequent determination that is made of