I hope you realize how enormously privileged you are and what incredible karma you must have made in the past to have this opportunity to receive these Lam-rim teachings in this lifetime. But it's not like that. You are enormously fortunate to have not just the opportunity to practice Dharma, but the aspiration to do it. If you don't have an aspiration, then even if the Dharma is right in front of you, you don't reach out for it. In Tibet, the people's minds basically were also quite empty, like their outside environment, so they filled it up with lots of systems and levels and complicated visualizations, complicated philosophies, because they had lots of empty space inside.
Every inch is covered with something.
Because they were dealing with that vast space out there, when it came to their practice, they had to fill it up as much as possible. But Westerners, especially Westerners who come to Dharma, their skulls are very fragile. They're often filled with self-loathing and guilt. If you hit them with a cudgel, all you get is shattered skull and bones and blood and brains all over the place. They end up with this extremely heavy sense of inability.