thinking, only now does thinking stand before the decision either to become en- thinking of be-ing or to be nothing at all.
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Enowning
For the initial knowing-awareness of what its naming says, the sway of en-owning must be indicated. That can happen only up to the "region" of thinking out of which the projecting-open that throws itself free becomes possible as thrown projecting-open. It is a gift of enowning whether this projecting-open enowns itself. The indication of the sway of enowning proffers the knowing-awareness of the sway of "time" that 'removes-unto and lights up' – "time" understood as the 'free-play of time-space' – for the determination of beingness as such, that is, beingness as presencing and constancy.
The clearing that 'removes-unto' points to something that can never be represented as the 'doings' of a being and nonetheless its swaying surpasses and is of more being than any being. The clearing that 'removes-unto' only indicates the ab-ground-character of being and the swaying of ab-ground – that being simply refuses any escape into the permanent, and as this refusal being simultaneously gifts the allotment unto the distress of a belongingness to being.
Being, while en-own-ing [Er-eignend], allots the countering of man and god and the strife of the world and the earth into the 'ownhood' of its sway.
But why these? To what extent is enowning simply the en-swaying of such things that holds unto ab-ground?
The question sounds as if be-ing (enowning) is meant above all as something that sways for itself from out of which then the rest should be deduced.
However, precisely the directive that ensues from out of "time" should indicate that be-ing as abground sways in the 'in-between' of "beings", and certainly is not to be determined from out of beingness of beings, but from out of being's hidden-sheltered swaying that being itself constitutes.
What we metaphysically call "god", "man", "world" and "earth" belong be-ing-historically to be-ing insofar as what is so named sways as 'ownhood' by holding on to ab-ground, and is ever variously allotted to belongingness to enowning.