(When today one repeats #being is," one means "beings," or else one withdraws from reflection with the assurance, seemingly protecting the miraculous, that being does not let itself be "defined." As though beyng demanded a #definition.")
131. Concealing
From where does concealing stem?
How does concealing prevail in essence?
What is concealing?
It is beyng itself, which in clearing veils and cloaks itself, as clearing, precisely through those (beings) that come to presence. Everything thus depends on the clearing, that it come to be appropriated, that in the appropriative event a "that" (that beyng is) first ground itself in its own and yet alienate everything that is capable of coming to presence into the clearing.
132. Truth
So long as we think #truth" in the conventional metaphysical way, it is always "truth about ... "—and secondary and supplemental.
If, however, its essence is recognized as clearing, then the truth "of" beyng is not "truth about ... ," but beyng itself, and indeed in its essencing.
To enquire concerning the #meaning of being" does not mean to erect statements #about" being and to ponder and report these statements as doctrines, but rather to open, in thinking, our relation to beyng itself. #Time" is the last foreword of the word of being. The #meaning of being" asks for the first time, in contrast to all metaphysics, concerning beyng itself, and in a manner more inceptual than the first commencement.
133. Is Beyng Always?
Beyng is neither "always" (sempiternum), nor is it "eternal," nor is it #temporal," "for a time," from time to time.
When and how long being "is" cannot be asked. Such a question passes uby" beyng in its questioning.