Dear Dimitry and friends,

Dimitry, thanks. Would you kindly explain more on this? To me, it
seems more like a choice of words, and also the word "state" may have
taken a more industrial meaning nowadays.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry A. Ivakhnenko wrote:
"Dhamma" very often means "mental quality", for example in "dhamma-
vicaya", and in the fourth frame of reference (Satipatthana).

Yet so far few translators share such view:
http://www.buddhadust.org/backmatter/glossology/terms/dhamma.htm
http://www.buddhadust.org/backmatter/glossology/terms/dhamma_vicaya.ht
m

Greed, aversion, etc., are not just states. "State" refers
to "sleeping", "wakeful", "ill", "healthy", etc. Hindrances and
factors of Awakening are rather mental qualities.